Foam Block under Cover chewed by mice (different than other post I found)

[legbuh]

Ok, so I found a little mouse nest and a foam block under the engine beauty cover chewed up a few months ago. I checked again today and the nest was back.

Anyone know the part number for this? I can't find it.

I did search and found a different foam part that someone else had chewed up. This is on a 2018 GT2 AWD. Its the piece that goes around the little peg where the cover mounts. You can see the right hand side is all chewed up. Fin mice!!! GRRR!!!

 

[G70LEbyAdoom]

Happened in my car too, though thankfully that's all they got. strange that the foam in my car was chewed in the same corner. though my engine bay is considerably less dusty.

 

[legbuh]

I think I found it:

35345U

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Ya, I got mine used. I never really detail the engine bay. lol... I did once when I was younger on my Integra and messed some stuff up. I suppose I could give it a wipe down. I thought about soaking that foam piece in antifreeze so when they chew it more they get poisoned.. hehe.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Is your car sitting for weeks/months??!! There is no way that a regularly driven car that gets as hot as this baby does would allow mouses to survive the experience.

 

[G70LEbyAdoom]

Is your car sitting for weeks/months??!! There is no way that a regularly driven car that gets as hot as this baby does would allow mouses to survive the experience.

Driven every day. (weekends not included of course because sometimes you just don't need to go out) Rodents have an amazing ability to get into places even under extreme heat/cold, especially when the heat is what they are drawn to in the first place in the winter time. Something tells me you haven't lived somewhere that gets truly cold in the winter have you? (At least, not in recent years anyway)

 

[MerlintheMad]

"Truly cold", what is that? Below freezing nights for days and nights on end, with contiguous days that don't get above freezing? Or REALLY cold, as in below zero as the norm?

I live in the former climate. I don't know of anybody who has mouses in their engineroom. I did. For all of one sighting (a tail quivering as the mouse disappeared from the windshield wipers well into the engineroom, so I must suppose: I saw nothing more after that: laid out mouse traps to no avail: and have ever since invited mousers into our yard by feeding them, hah!). I've checked my cabin air filter often, and looked over wiring for any signs. I just don't see how a mouse could actually endure the hellish heat that builds up in a Stinger engineroom! But I've been mistaken so many times before, over so many intuitive things. *sigh*

 

[G70LEbyAdoom]

"Truly cold", what is that? Below freezing nights for days and nights on end, with contiguous days that don't get above freezing? Or REALLY cold, as in below zero as the norm?

I live in the former climate. I don't know of anybody who has mouses in their engineroom. I did. For all of one sighting (a tail quivering as the mouse disappeared from the windshield wipers well into the engineroom, so I must suppose: I saw nothing more after that: laid out mouse traps to no avail: and have ever since invited mousers into our yard by feeding them, hah!). I've checked my cabin air filter often, and looked over wiring for any signs. I just don't see how a mouse could actually endure the hellish heat that builds up in a Stinger engineroom! But I've been mistaken so many times before, over so many intuitive things. *sigh*

Truly cold is often associated with any place that has an average of single digit Temps or below 0 in the winter time, Such as northern New England where I live.

Ive made the mistake of working on my stinger after several WOT pulls and Yes the block gets burning instantly levels of hot, but there is so much plastic that really only gets warm to the touch inside the engine bay, to know that most rodents are smart enough to avoid those areas at this point. Crafty bastards.

 

[legbuh]

Is your car sitting for weeks/months??!! There is no way that a regularly driven car that gets as hot as this baby does would allow mouses to survive the experience.

Nope. It's driven often, stored indoors in a heated shed. MN has lots o mice!

 

[djerickd]

What is this foam piece for anyway?

 

[legbuh]

Got the replacement it. I thought about leaving the engine cover off so Mice wouldn't find it so inviting... but I put it back on. OCD is hard to defeat.

The part was cheap. If they eat it again I'll replace it and leave the cover off next time.

 

[Deviate]

What is this foam piece for anyway?

Quiets that oh so wonderful tick from the direct injection. I believe that its a solenoid but dont hold me to that. Just know that its way louder when that piece is not on mine.

As for the rodent issue... Tomcat makes a spray that will deter the mice/rats from hanging out. Kind of like the cat away spray you can buy.

I had to have a new harness put in a week or so after i bought mine. Lil bastards got me one night i left my car out.