Rodent problems

[Kneale Brownson]

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Unlike the 4K cars, there's no screening of the openings between the
evaporator box and the passenger cabin.  I suppose that if you have a
continuing problem, it would pay to remove the rain diverter and
form-fit  some screen around the evap box.  It'd be quite a bit of custom
fitting, however, and I don't see how you'd enclose the bottom
areas.  You'd almost have to replicate the rain diverter and extend the
screening to the fenders.


At 11:51 PM 10/28/2001 -0500, Craig D. Niederst wrote:

>On the way to work last week, I needed to turn on the AC to operate the
>defroster on my '92 100S. Upon doing so, about 2 lbs of sunflower seed
>emptied into the passenger foot well (I had the recirc button on). Further
>investigation today showed that the rodent (probably a chipmunk) entered
>through the fresh air flap on top of the heater box. I was surprised to
>see that there is no screen on the inside of this opening to prevent
>rodents, leaves, etc from getting in. I looked in the Family Album, and
>there appear to be no pics of the heater box (just of the blower motor
>housing). Should there be some sort of a screen in place on this opening,
>or did Audi neglect to think of this? I sure hope I don't need to get a cat...
>
>Craig
>'92 100S (95k)
>'86 CGT (200k)
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