I noticed a stange smell, somewhat like a barn the last few days when starting up my X3.
After checking my shoes for dog presents, and looking around inside on the mats etc. I decided to open the hood.
To my surprise there is insulation debris all over the engine and about 25% of the hood insulation is gone.
I also notice lots of small pellets in the circular suspension cups above the front wheels.
Bloody mice living in the engine compartment? Anyway I am afraid the smell might be a dead mouse contained somewhere in the air system.
This car is garaged all the time.
Anyway - set a bunch of traps around the garage, and will take it in to have the air system looked at, and the hood insulation replaced. It looks like a relatively cheap unit to replace.
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Also check cable insulations and rubber parts under your hood to make sure that the hood insulation is not the only material in the daily diet of your garage's lively fauna...
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Until you get the mice trapped, put an open container (such as a tuna can) filled with moth balls in the engine compartment. Leave the hood ajar to remind you to remove the container before driving. Farmers do this to keep critters out of combines.
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By the way, I feel for you. Mice caused $800 of damage last year to the wiring of my old '93 Explorer.
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Are you sure it's a mice? I know that martens love engine compartments and chew delightfully plastic parts and hoses.
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Mice chewed the fuel line in my dad's Jaguar. It caught fire on his way to work. Whole engine compartment went up in smoke before FD could stop it.
Watch out for mice! They're nasty.
I'd check the perimeter of the garage for openings and seal them or cover them with wire mesh, clean everything out of the garage to make sure the mice don't have a nest, and replace cardboard-boxed storage with plastic bin storage. Make sure there is no gap under doors - but also make sure garage ventilation works.
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