Foxes eating Soy based cables

it’s certainly a cold dish served up by these car owners 😀

Well I’m joking today too but totally realise the seriousness of it - apparently there are foxes living nearby this estate - and it’s a learned behaviour so if the entire fox family develop a taste in this estate, the problem will only spread over time as the family expand and travel to set up new dens and families -

It’s the ABS cable apparently

“At first there were fears in Marsham Court, a small, 1970s estate of 120 houses near Stillorgan, that they were being targeted by vandals. But now the night-time attacks are being blamed on foxes.After a recent AGM of residents, the question of why this small estate is suffering, while nearby housing estates have no such problem, remains a mystery.“If it is foxes, why haven’t adjoining estates been affected?” one resident wanted to know. “There is nothing but a large area of green separating us, so why have we been targeted?“It isn’t just the financial burden, but it is waking up in the morning wondering if you will be able to drive your car,” says Ray Ward, whose car has been damaged twice.“I wrap my car in chicken wire at night because I need it for work. Some people are parking as far away as the Beacon, in Sandyford, because they are so afraid of having their cars damaged.”Postal worker Garret O’Connor wraps his car in garden mesh every night. “I go to work shortly after 5am and it takes ages to get ready before I can leave the estate. But what else can I do?” he said.The attacks began last August. At first many local people were afraid to highlight it because they thought it might give their estate a bad name.Marsham Court, which is just off the Upper Kilmacud Road, is a quiet area of neat houses, with well-tended lawns and a mature population.“The gardaí have been informed,” one local told me shortly after the incidents began. “But we still don’t know whether this is someone out to get us, or it’s animals like foxes or rats.”But as time passed and the damage continued, the consensus now is that foxes are the problem.“

“When homeowners come out in the morning and get into their cars a warning light often tells them they have a problem with their ABS cable.An ABS cable is an anti-lock brake system that reduces stopping distances during panic situations, particularly on wet and slippery roads. It helps drivers maintain control and avoid crashes.The cable is the only part of a modern car’s wiring system that is not enclosed, and is therefore vulnerable.Most of the residents of Marsham Court didn’t know what an ABS cable was until they found theirs damaged.Depending on the make of the car, it can cost between €500 and €800 to have it repaired.“