Everyone is saying just change that one wire but you would need to run it back to the buss and the wire would need to be the gage and length and it MAY! Need to be shielded (RF emissions).
If you do anything to induce a change in the résistance of the wire the system will note it and try to adjust itself and it will not be in spec.
I would at minimum bring it to another toyota dealer to get a second quote, even if insurance is paying for it.
So, What do you plan to do with the rats?
Get a cat, Traps Poison?
That could be the case. No one at the dealer has said that yet but, I didn't really question them and since the insurance company has agreed to pay I probably won't question them. If it is the case, I wonder why on earth an auto manufacturer would put such a sensitive system into a car likely to be driven by the average consumer. Can you imagine poor people that have this car down the road and can't afford full coverage and are faced with this kind of bill for a repair? There's no way the average person can afford an $8,000 bill on a used car.
I wouldn't call it a sensitive system, any car with the properly chewed wire won't start, even old school stuff. Just happened they nicked a wire that the car uses for starting purposes. I agree the wire could have been fixed , proper solder and heatshrink would be solved the problem and that won't cause enough impedance to change sensor feedback.
So, What do you plan to do with the rats?
Get a cat, Traps Poison?
Everyone is saying just change that one wire but you would need to run it back to the buss and the wire would need to be the gage and length and it MAY! Need to be shielded (RF emissions).
If you do anything to induce a change in the résistance of the wire the system will note it and try to adjust itself and it will not be in spec.
Several manufacturers have had problems with rodent related destruction of wires, blamed mainly on the use of soy based insulation on the wiring. Pretty sure toyota has had several law suites over it. Any independent shop out there could have easily just fixed the damaged wires without replacing the entire wiring harness.
We had 3 incidents at our house similar to your but not as expensive with our Toyota Camry.
Long story short... we found out Toyota and BMW have SOY blended in the wire insulation for there *green initiative* this was at our old house which had a pecan tree near the car and an open carport. In a new house with no big trees and a garage.... problem solved ;-)
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Since our incident I have learned from a friend in Texas that a neighbor of his parked his brand new Ford F250 under his carport and the next day was at the dealership for an over $10,000 replacement of his entire wiring harness. And my wife's cousin in Virginia has a son that is a service manager at a Nissan dealership and he sent a picture of a work in progress of the replacement of an entire wiring harness on a Nissan car that was going to be over $8,000.
Apparently this is a trend in car engineering to design cars and trucks that require replacing entire wiring harnesses due to rodent damage to wiring on vehicles.
Man you and people associated with you really should get to know independent service techs....the dealers are really hammering y’all.
So that begs the question of "Why would the insurance company agree to pay over $8,000 to the dealership if it could have been fixed for a couple of hundred at an independent shop?"
I do know an independent mechanic. He does all my work that I am not able to do on any vehicle that is not still under warranty. Finding an independent that I can trust was very difficult. I can't speak for the other people that I noted as I don't know them except for the service manager at the Nissan dealer. I've watched him grow up into a fine young man.
I will not bring a vehicle that is still under warranty to an independent mechanic and risk losing a warranty.
Well let me ask you a question. If the dealership quoted a price for the harness and the insurance company said to take it to an independent and just get the wire replaced for a couple of hundred, would you raise a stink and insist on the whole harness being replaced as the dealer indicated??????......We have met the enemy and he is us.
Back when my car was still under the extended warranty {insurance} The A/C comssor bearing went out. The Deaker wanted to swap all the parts 100% Everything new. Was $100.00 for us.Do you also bring that car to the dealer for oil changes?
That’s just a crazy amount of hrs billed for that repair. If it would have been under warranty the hrs would have been billed way less. Personally I will never pay the dealer to do a non warranty repair.