loki_racer
NAXJA Forum User
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- Pittsburgh, PA
I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this, but figured it was about a vendor and most people look here before purchasing from a vendor. I have contacted JCR about this issue, but am not sure if they will do anything about it (if anything can really be done).
About three months ago rats started getting in to my XJ and eating my nearly new Corbeau seats. At first I thought they were entering the cab through a hole in my firewall. I filled this hole and every other random hole (two small drain holes in the front floor boards) with steel wool. I parked the XJ offsite, filled it with rat traps and poison and left it parked for a few days. I never caught anything and figured the rats had left.
The rats still continued to be able to enter the Jeep and chew on my seats after returning the Jeep to my house.
I spent a couple days trying to reason out how they were entering. The floorboards were all sealed, the firewall was sealed. The radio antenna hole was sealed. Everything looked buttoned up.
Then the other day my son noticed a roughly 2" x 2" opening in the bottom of each JCR tail light housing. This hole leads straight in to the lower rear quarter panel, which leads in to the cab (with just a little flexing of the plastic interior panel).
I stuffed some steel wool in each of these holes and haven't had any new chew marks on the seats in a week.
tl;dr If you buy JCR tail light boxes or their upper quarter panel armor, seal the holes on the underside of the tail light boxes, or rats can snack on your interior.
About three months ago rats started getting in to my XJ and eating my nearly new Corbeau seats. At first I thought they were entering the cab through a hole in my firewall. I filled this hole and every other random hole (two small drain holes in the front floor boards) with steel wool. I parked the XJ offsite, filled it with rat traps and poison and left it parked for a few days. I never caught anything and figured the rats had left.
The rats still continued to be able to enter the Jeep and chew on my seats after returning the Jeep to my house.
I spent a couple days trying to reason out how they were entering. The floorboards were all sealed, the firewall was sealed. The radio antenna hole was sealed. Everything looked buttoned up.
Then the other day my son noticed a roughly 2" x 2" opening in the bottom of each JCR tail light housing. This hole leads straight in to the lower rear quarter panel, which leads in to the cab (with just a little flexing of the plastic interior panel).
I stuffed some steel wool in each of these holes and haven't had any new chew marks on the seats in a week.
tl;dr If you buy JCR tail light boxes or their upper quarter panel armor, seal the holes on the underside of the tail light boxes, or rats can snack on your interior.