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Today started doing my 60 k. Changed my cabin air filter and yet again another mouse has been in my blower. At each 20k service I have had an eaten air filter. You would think lexus would make it harder for a mouse to get into the blower. Frustrated with rodents and poor design
Today started doing my 60 k. Changed my cabin air filter and yet again another mouse has been in my blower. At each 20k service I have had an eaten air filter. You would think lexus would make it harder for a mouse to get into the blower. Frustrated with rodents and poor design
There are related threads, but I will repeat what I've recommended on those: Try the stuff you buy for wardrobes that keeps moths etc away. Hang it under the hood etc., mice, it seems hate the smell and stay away.
Wouldn't you end up getting that smell in the cabin though?
I never noticed it, but I hang it in the left front corner of my RX's engine compartment, where it is not directly in front of a ventilation air intake.
where do you park your car? How the heck can they get into the garage? Sounds like you might need to set some traps or seal up the holes allowing them into the garage. If thats not possible then I would try to put a screen where they enter into the car.
where do you park your car? How the heck can they get into the garage? Sounds like you might need to set some traps or seal up the holes allowing them into the garage. If thats not possible then I would try to put a screen where they enter into the car.
My experience with mice is that they can ruin a Porsche Cayenne overnight and make a mockery of the most skilled German engineer. Where they come from and how they get into a car is also a complete mystery. They once eaten through the printed circuit board of the instrument panel of my wife's car, nobody at the dealers could work out why the rev counter doesn't want to work, until they pulled the dash board. In that particular car I set mouse traps overnight and stop counting at twelve mice caught. It was then that a guy from the UK gave me the tip about the moth repellent and I haven't seen mice in one of my cars since.
Also don't leave food morsels or plastic bottled water in the car. Please also believe me: it has nothing to do with how hygienic you are. Mice don't care whether you're a hillbilly or Mr Monk. In winter they are attracted by the warm engine of your parked car after the daily drive - they're looking for a place to nest and the beauty for them is the myriad of nesting material like the stuff used in sound insulation and of course the upholstery. With luck the kids might have dropped something from McDonalds and there you go.
My car is in a old cold storage garage in the winter. Not going to seal that thing up 100% in the summer it's in a carport and I'm out driving it all the time. Inside of my car is showroom clean all the time. So it's not food their after.
Sorry to hear about your mice problem. Rodents can do more damage than a human vandal. I had a rat crawl up my vent and die before(on a hot summer day). Smelt like I was in an episode of the Walking Dead. My other car has been sitting for sometime and I just checked it a few weeks ago, popped the hood and found this. I knew I should kept that freakin valve cover on!
Yah I read also mothballs and sheets of fabric softener work under the hood to keep rodents out. Seems to be working after I cleaned up that mess.
so I take it the mouse wasn't in the cabin filter area when you changed it. you're lucky. if the mouse gets trapped in the squirrel cage blower area and dies, you will NEVER get the smell out. just gotta get used to it. I would get some cats.
12-20-14, 01:39 PM
What's with the mice
My other car has been sitting for sometime and I just checked it a few weeks ago, popped the hood and found this. 
I knew I should kept that freakin valve cover on!
