mouse in air filter compartment?

[mbergen]

Hi. I'm wondering if this is anything I should be concerned with. I got the oil changed. I've had the car since August, and they wanted to change the air filter. I told them I'd do it myself, so when I got home, I checked it, and the bottom of the box was full of sunflower seed shells, corn, etc. as if a mouse had been in there. 1st - is there any way a mouse could get in there? Is it anything to be concerned about? Any way those things could have been sucked into there without being brought in by an animal? I feed the birds next to the garage, so I'm assuming that's where the seed came from. I know a mouse had been living in the garage, as I had found one of those little individual cereal boxes on a shelf filled with seeds under a bunch of junk.I vacuumed everything out real well and am going to replace the air filter.Meg

[Raven]

It's fairly common actually. It happened to my uncle and me on my motorcycle. It shouldn't be a problem. Just have a quick look around at all the wiring to make sure he didn't nibble on anything else besides the sunflower seeds. There was a thread about this not too long ago.

[kevera]

I had one on my engine a little while ago,I pulled the engine cover off to change my plugs and to my surprise there was a big turd there.They come in under the black plastic cover over the cowl area.Make sure it's tight and no cracks that he can slip in.

[CCD]

Living on a farm, I have had squirrel rat and mouse damage to all my vehicles. The worst was a squirrel chewing all the vacuum lines in my F-150. I also had birds nest in my grille. I have 3 vehicles and whatever gets parked in the barn for more than 3 days gets moved into by some varmints.

[mbergen]

Thanks. I looked and found some of the old posts. I did want to add that this is the engine air filter, not the other one. Meg