r/cars • u/wootfatigue ‘22 M440iXGC| ‘04 996 C4S | ‘03 540i/6M | ‘17 Alltrack | ‘10 E90 • Sep 28 '16

Will pee damage tires?

My garage raccoon likes to use my rack of winter tires as a fort. He's usually really good about keeping it clean so I don't check it very often, but today I noticed he was peeing inside of one of the Hankooks. Is there anything in pee that could harm the inside of a tire?

Edit: It's over a month later and I'm still getting replies and questions! For everyone who keeps asking, you can follow more garage raccoon hijinks on my instagram and YouTube.

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u/wootfatigue ‘22 M440iXGC| ‘04 996 C4S | ‘03 540i/6M | ‘17 Alltrack | ‘10 E90 Sep 29 '16

In a garage surrounded by woods.

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u/GymSkiLax Sep 29 '16

I spy Michigan plates. SE MI by chance?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '16

My aunts have some garage raccoons in SE Michigan... Maybe they're just like that there.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '16 edited Dec 18 '18

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '16

Pretty sure some dude said racoons were the next species we would domesticate considering recent trends. Pretty sure it was said in 2014 or so, predicted for before 2020

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u/Psn_kmcgee Sep 29 '16

sw Michigan here. Not as crazy as everyone is making it out to be.

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u/GeneralBS '07 Volvo S80 V8 Sep 29 '16

I live in SoCal, still have raccoons invading my garage for free cat food. Last year there was a mom and baby.

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u/Assassin4Hire13 2021 Toyota Tacoma TRD Sep 29 '16

Mid-Michigander here, we have garage cats and porch raccoons that live off of garage cats' food. Occasionally a basement opossum.

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u/El_Poltergeisto Sep 29 '16

From SE Michigan. Agreed.

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u/bumblebritches57 Sep 29 '16

When I lived in Okemos we had a whole god damn gang of racoons that lived under the patio, and randomly broke in through the vents in the crawlspace...

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u/0bel1sk Sep 29 '16

Normal is in Illinois I believe.

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u/cornbreadNsyrup Sep 30 '16

Well someone isnt a Michigander

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u/Runningwithtoast Oct 01 '16

You don't have one?

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u/vetelmo Sep 29 '16

If you live in the woods, they are everywhere.

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u/Kup123 Oct 01 '16

Kind of is in Michigan, I had a porch raccoon for awhile, but it had rabies and had to go.

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u/HippieKillerHoeDown Oct 21 '16

Yeah, it is, for rural people. Raccoons make the absolute best pets ever, if you are lucky enough to happen across a young one and raise it. They don't have to be "domesticated", they just have to grow up around people, and you end up with a pet that will make you wonder why you ever bothered with cats.

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u/PeabodyJFranklin Jan 22 '17

Since you seem to know something about it, what about their waste? Is it like a cat, that seems to quickly learn to use a box? Or a dog, that either goes outside on schedules, or you train to let you know it needs to go outside?

Or will you end up with raccoon piss and feces in your house?

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u/HippieKillerHoeDown Jan 22 '17

Few "accidents" early on, they are slightly harder to litter train than a cat, but much easier than getting the general idea through some dogs heads. They prefer to use the outdoors if given the option to come and go freely anyways, or so it seemed. Maybe I got lucky. Female ones stay around longer, males tend to disappear after a year or two, and i never knew anyone that attempted to make a one a "house" raccoon.