Check your air box…

[Langwilliams]

My screen to keep critters out of the intake.

I think it was yours. I live in a condo complex with about 40 units an I haven't had a problem in 15 years. Safety in numbers? I don't usually let my truck set for more than a day without using it an there are occasionally neighborhood cats strolling through the area.

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[janitorjim]

Just to check, Isn't that the engine filter for the intake manifold? I'm looking for the intake for the passenger compartment air filter...

sorry that makes sense now. isn't that air usually coming from the area below the windshield?

 

[BlackRanger01]

They hate meeces to pieces.

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[BlackRanger01]

My screen to keep critters out of the intake.

That's a well design screen.

 

[jblc]

If you're looking for the cabin air filter check out this video.

I'm looking for the OTHER end of it The part where debris or critters enter. That's somewhere outside the cabin...

 

[Cmar]

If you're looking for the cabin air filter check out this video.

Yeah I love it, it has to be one of the easiest cabin filters to replace! I had another car where you practically had to dismantle half the front of the car to get at it.

 

[Delirious]

No worries here it's to darn hot. My garage will be well over 110 in the summer and no mouse is dumb enough to climb into my air box in that heat. If they did they'd fry in minutes. Bet they taste like chicken? ?

Arizona's the gates to hell like Florida is God's waiting room. I survived a year in Arizona around Phoenix. My brother lives in Mesa. After the monsoon rains came and went, about 6 solid weeks of it, we had to dig some deep trenches for electrical conduits. The ground was only wet the top 1 inch and the rest of it was bone dry! Hard as concrete! Machine work only of course! I missed trees and I missed rain and yeah, it might be a dry heat and humidity sucks but at least it can feel cool when you drive with windows down (which I never do) or ride a motorcycle. In Arizona when you drive 80 miles an hour and you put the windows down it feels like a giant hairdryer on you. God bless everyone of you Americans that hold the fort down. I don't envy anyone of you!

 

[DRVMN]

Years ago my Dad had a Ford Explorer. Around 10,000 miles, the blower motor was rattling a lot. He took it in for what he thought was warranty work. The technician pulled out over 20 pounds of dog food the mice had stolen from the dog bowl in the garage kennel and made their home in the Explorer. Dad had to pay for that repair!

 

[rydfree]

Since auto makers have been switching to eco-friendly soy based wiring insulation , rodents under the hood can be a serious problem . My daughter purchased a 2019 Toyota 4Runner and mice chewed up a harness 3 months later that caused her to barely make it to the dealership in limp mode . $700 later they said it was an act of nature and not a warranty issue . Yeah lets cover our wiring in rat bait and leave it to the customers to figure out

 

[AzScorpion]

Arizona's the gates to hell like Florida is God's waiting room. I survived a year in Arizona around Phoenix. My brother lives in Mesa. After the monsoon rains came and went, about 6 solid weeks of it, we had to dig some deep trenches for electrical conduits. The ground was only wet the top 1 inch and the rest of it was bone dry! Hard as concrete! Machine work only of course! I missed trees and I missed rain and yeah, it might be a dry heat and humidity sucks but at least it can feel cool when you drive with windows down (which I never do) or ride a motorcycle. In Arizona when you drive 80 miles an hour and you put the windows down it feels like a giant hairdryer on you. God bless everyone of you Americans that hold the fort down. I don't envy anyone of you!

The summers here are brutal that's for sure, you'd better like the heat! I know weather changes from year to year but it's getting hotter here earlier and lasting longer now. When I first moved here it was only June-August that were the worst months. Now we've had upper 90's in March and last October several days in the low 100's. To many people have moved here and all the concrete, tile roofs and new pavement just hole the heat in longer at night. Summer nights at 10:00 pm it's not uncommon to still be 106 out. ? As much as the heat is starting to get to me I still couldn't go back to a cold area and especially not a humid one like FL.

You're right it doesn't matter how much rain we get the ground never absorbs it. When they did the trenching in my back yard for the gas/electrical the landscapers needed a jackhammer to get through it. Unfortunately for them the meter is at the front of the house and my fire pit and outdoor bbq area were all the way in the back. Luckily there's no frost here so code is only 18" but they still worked their butts off.

 

[jjk2020]

Noticed I had a mouse in my 2020 cabin when I saw droppings on the dash a year or so ago. I got the mouse that day and didn’t think of it again.
Fast forward to today when I decided to change the air filter…welp, looks like I’ve been driving for 15,000 miles with this sucker in it. Looks like he made quite the home…Check your air box after signs of mice!

Interesting. I was surprised by a mouse in my cabin 2 days ago. Found droppings and piss all over the place. It was in there for 2 days. I have NO CLUE how it got in there. I also found a couple pieces of chewed up wire, and was unable to determine (yet) what it got to. The first place I looked was under the seats. I have a 2020 Lariet with power everything and so far the seats still go back & forth and up and down. I still need to check the seat warmers. Any ideas how a mouse could get in?

 

[BlackRanger01]

not entirely....

from the interweb....RATS AND MICE ARE AGILE MAMMALS. A mouse can get through a small, 6-7 mm hole (about the diameter of a normal-sized pen) and a rat can get through a 20 mm hole

True.

 

[Dgc333]

FWIW, a mouse (mice) got into my 68 Barracuda and made a nest above the head liner and chewed a hole in it. I got one of the ultra sonic rodent deterents and mounted it under the dash. It sense a voltage change when you start the car and shuts off and turns it self back on when you shut the car off. It makes a high frequency sound you can't hear and strobes an LED.

They also have been under the hood of my wife's 21 Jeep. Left acorn remains on the top of the battery and chewed the insulating blanket on the battery.

So far no signs of them in the Ranger.

Interesting story years ago my wife had a Ford Tempo. On the way to work one day if started to rain and she turned the wipers on. There was a mouse under coal plate where the wiper mechanism is. The motion caused mouse to squeeze out through one of the vent slots. It got caught on the wiper arm and went for a couple of swipes across the windshield before disappearing. Wife was freaked and would not get out of the car when's she got to work for fear of it hanging on the a pillar. Had to convince her over the phone that it wasn't going to be hanging on the car.

 

[Bluestem]

Right there with you guys. I had one in the pillar in the back corner behind the back seats a few weeks ago. Must have been in there for a day or two. Killed it with a trap but it must have been making a nest because a few days later I ended up with a dead critter smell. I pulled all the trim out and still couldn't figure out where those damn things are. This truck will forever have 7 or 8 dead baby mice rolling around in the sheet metal. The smell has finally gone away but I want to make sure I get all the spots covered with wire mesh where they could possibly be getting in. I've already gorilla tapped the 2 holes in the firewall where the wiring harnesses come through.

If anyone can point out where the fresh air intake is for the cab I'd certainly appreciate. I really hate those little buggers. Nothing worse than climbing into your 35 thousand dollar truck and catching the smell of death every morning.

Wish we had a tough couple barn cats but all the cats that turn up never stick around the neighbor at the end of our lane feeds them.

 

[wanted33]

Damn rats.......I have to keep traps, and poison in my detached garage year round.

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