Fire crews found a rats nest in the engine bay of a burnt out car in the news. If there are rats and mice about leave the bonnet up over night they wont nest.
We normally leave he bonnet up, so I'm not sure how and when they got in and did the damage, it could have been when were on holidays recently, even though our son was watching the house he didn't go out and check around until the last day of the holidays, so it could have happened then.....the Ford Mechanic said it needed to go to and auto electrician, we told the insurance company this, but we found out today they sent it to another mechanic, that they have a contract with !!!!!!!! figure that one out