and after replacing the 12v battery and inflating the tires - I popped the hood to see that a rodent had gone to town on a cable to the inverter assembly. Picture is not of my car - but it is the cable at the top of the screen. The rat thing chewed through a rubberized and braided outer jacket, then foil and copper shielding and then hard plastic insulation covering multiple smaller wires that thankfully were all intact. Car started fine with no codes but I imagine the heavy shielding on the cable was put there for a reason. The cable is socketed in three parts with one going to the inverter and another to sockets going to what appears to be a fuse box an an ECM. Anyone know the part number for this cable and any advice on replacing it? BTW it is the black cable at the top of the picture not the orange high voltage cables - a buddy was like just wrap in electrical tape - but I would rather not - and also not have to spend 3,000 on a complete harness...
I believe that harness is either this one or this one. They both are listed as applying to a 2013 ZVW35, so you might need to do a little digging to determine which variant you've got, either with a dealer's help and the VIN, or by finding the white tag with the part number. (I'm not sure whereabouts on that harness they put the tag; if you can pull up Google image searches by those part numbers, some sellers might possibly have photos where you can make it out. Then you'd know where to look for it on yours.) The links above are MSRP and individual dealers often list discounted prices; you'd probably still find pulling from a recycled vehicle more palatable.
Now imagine paying for the labor to reach and disconnect every one of those connectors under the hood and under the dash, release every last miserable retaining clip, pull the thing through at the firewall grommets, and then reversing it all to put the replacement in. (At least the miserable clips are easy when you're putting them in.) I hate wire harness clips. Especially how they throw in so many different styles, so as soon as you've worked out some technique that gets this kind to pop out most of the time, the next one is some other kind.
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I didn't gather from the original post that the high-voltage cabling got chewed, but rather the segment of the (low voltage) "engine room main wire" harness that runs along the top of the inverter in that photo. So the critters chewed through the outer black wrap first, and then through some EMI shielding inside. (If I'm reading the original post right.) I think if critters had gnawed on my orange high-voltage wiring I'd be especially interested in a good repair. If some of the circuits in the engine room main harness are shielded for protection from interference, then I'd be interested in looking for a way to restore the shield integrity. Stuff might work without it, but be more susceptible to electrical interference ... it might lead to occasional hard-to-reproduce and flaky behavior. Or maybe it'll be just fine, only taped back up.
