mkla Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 This is just a friendly FYI for those of you who are ever unfortunate enough to have a rat take refuge under your hood: Change your cabin air filter as soon as you kill the little SOB. My little rodent friend met his maker 3 months ago thanks to a little peanut butter and good old fashioned snap rat trap - it never dawned on me to change the air and cabin filter. So today, I did it as part of my regular maintenance. Air filter was dirty, but otherwise fine. The cabin air filter, however, had about 15 rat turds collected on it - so for the past 3 months, my lovely family of 4 has been breathing in filtered rat crap and likely p*ss as well. Anyway, I'm off to Pep Boys to get filters for my other car since he would car hop in our garage until I caught him. Can't wait to see what he left there...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkla Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 OK - just thought I would share a pic of the cabin filter from my Honda which I just changed. No rat turds on that one, but obviously chewed to pieces. Anyway - hopefully never happens to any of you & nice to know we're breathing fresh air now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cduluk Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Damn!! That's awful... Check your engine air filter too, he might have been able to get in there too <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkla Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Luckily the engine air filter in both the lexus and honda were untouched - that really would have sucked to have had bits of filter blown into the engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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