gM Plant Based Wire Insulation

[BCreekDave]

Heard the same thing about using a plant (soy, peanut) based injection mold release spray that makes the plastic parts tasty to rodents. They went to this as the traditional silicone based spray could contaminate the cars during the paint process somehow. The silicone would get on workers gloves and then it would migrate to the car or parts bodies prior to paint.

[nova7579]

Almost all manufactures use the plant based wire covering. The GM truck plant in Fort Wayne, IN was/is storing trucks across town in the old Casad Depot government storage facality. At one time they stored most of the US Governments supply of mercury. It was decommissioned in 1981. I did attend a couple of car show/ swap meets there in the mid 80's.