I bought what I thought was a pre loved car a few months back but turns out it was a rat ride.
It was time for a service, which I do myself. I opened up the area to expose the cabin filter, as it had a noisy fan and dropped the amount of air coming out of the vent on a long trip over the weekend. Holy Rat Nest.......old paperwork from the original owner in Aussie (car was imported to NZ), a sunglass case, plastic touching the fan (ahh there's the noise) and the remains of the offender, which looks to have expired a few years ago. What a mess and the rat riding rodent had also dislodged the filter.
Cleaned out the rubbish and the old dried flat rat. Gave it a vacuum clean and are running without a pollen filter for now.
Now I sure this is not new having rodents making a home in a car (it is for me though) but what I can't get my head around is how no one picked up something was dead and decaying in the air vent system of a newish car, it's a 2013 model. I'm picking no one has ever replaced the filter as there was a 2014 date on one of the papers with the owners name on it.
Fan is kicking out heaps of air now, quite and a new filter is on the way. Life is back in order.
Has anyone else had similar with rodent hitchhikers coming along for the ride.
It was time for a service, which I do myself. I opened up the area to expose the cabin filter, as it had a noisy fan and dropped the amount of air coming out of the vent on a long trip over the weekend. Holy Rat Nest.......old paperwork from the original owner in Aussie (car was imported to NZ), a sunglass case, plastic touching the fan (ahh there's the noise) and the remains of the offender, which looks to have expired a few years ago. What a mess and the rat riding rodent had also dislodged the filter.
Cleaned out the rubbish and the old dried flat rat. Gave it a vacuum clean and are running without a pollen filter for now.
Now I sure this is not new having rodents making a home in a car (it is for me though) but what I can't get my head around is how no one picked up something was dead and decaying in the air vent system of a newish car, it's a 2013 model. I'm picking no one has ever replaced the filter as there was a 2014 date on one of the papers with the owners name on it.
Fan is kicking out heaps of air now, quite and a new filter is on the way. Life is back in order.
Has anyone else had similar with rodent hitchhikers coming along for the ride.
Yeah mate, my money is on Horse sorting them out.......Rats meet Horse.
