VW Virtus GT Plus manual: 11,500 km and first-year service update

A few more owners of the VW Virtus and Taigun, Skoda Slavia and Kushaq have suffered rat bites. I wonder if there is something specific under the hood of these cars that attracts the rats.

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Did the 1st year servicing last week of my GT Plus manual, 11500 Km done. No issues with the car, runs beautifully.

Did two Pune-Kerala runs last year, had a rat bite that screwed up the electricals (nice of VW Service to repair it free of cost), had a front glass replacement (this was a bit of an unpleasant surprise - had closed the wiper blade - it was kept up by the guy who cleans the car) a bit casually, not realizing that the wiper had come off its frame at one end, and the metal bit landed hard against the front glass, cracking it. Spent around 18K (happened a few months back) repairing it. Didn't claim insurance. Other than these two incidents, no issues at all with the car.

They said they did an ECU software update (not 100% sure what, but apparently part of the regular 1-year service list). Not sure if it's related, but the low rpm pick-up seems to have smoothened out a bit after the services (i.e. slightly easier to drive in the city ). It's a manual btw.

Ah yes, forgot - the "T" of the GT in the front grill had disappeared a few months back, and I wasn't very sure about how it happened (did someone take it off?). I found another Virtus GT with the exact same issue at the service center, and caught up with him. His theory is that it might have come off during washing/wiping the car with aggressive use of the cloth in the area to wipe. I have left it like that for now, as the service center didn't have the letter with them at the time (they indicated that it costs around 1000 Rs. I can run with the G for now I guess. Found some options on Amazon, not sure if they are an exact match.

Postscript

I understand that a few more owners of Virtus/Taigun/Slavia/Kushaq had suffered rat bites. At least 2-3 more cases in TBHP. Wonder if there is something specific to these cars under the hood that attracts the rats?

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