A mouse in the heater? (88 90q)

[Brett Dikeman]

At 11:33 PM -0800 1/27/02, Mike Robinson wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>Obviously I don't have a mouse in my heater, but it sure sounds like I
>do.  The car is an 88 90q.  Whenever the heater is on a squeaky noise
>comes out of the passenger side dash heater vent.  It is quite annoying
>but will go away eventually.  Has anyone ever had a problem like this?

Sounds like an impending motor bearing failure.  My 200q20v used to
do this, mostly when the blower was run at high speed for a long
time. It became more and more frequent, and then the motor would get
"stuck" and require jump starting(opening the tilt on the sunroof at
70+mph on the turnpike caused enough vacuum to kick it into gear.)
Then it simply stopped working, period.

Now I've got a weird noise thanks to some squirrels(who decided to
use my car to store about 2 dozen acorns.

With the fan on high, the car literally shakes violently as
-something- goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR; it is amazing how strong the
shaking is.  Stuck flap, or as Marc suggested, remnants of a nest of
some sort.  Thank god the acorns didn't get into the blower assembly.
World's first 20v popcorn maker.

B
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