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How do I get the bear to pee on the filter?

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And here I was working on perfecting a flux capacitor. Guess I missed the boat!

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If you put your heater on RECIRC when you park your car, that keeps the mice from getting into the cabin. But that’s just part of the mice problem. They can chew the insulation off wires and cause expensive damage and they can nest in the fan box and the air filter.

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would that prevent them from getting to the cabin air filter?

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Pretty sure it would. The cabin filter is probably downstream from everything else.

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Not always. The cabin air filter in the late 1990s Buick Regal was just under the cowling at the windshield. It was exposed except for a diversion channel to run water away from it at the bottom of the windshield. I imagine that the Pontiac Grand Prix of the same era was the same, since it was almost identical.

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2014 toyota avalon
2019 honda crv

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Interesting. I guess they were ahead of their time. How did you get to it, from the outside? Was it weatherproof?

Years ago GM had a great idea which I think they abandoned. They put a curl to the hood where it met the cowling and had the wipers protected under there. They rode up a ramp when they were parked and that prevented the rubber from getting a “set.”

I don’t know how many people have noticed but wiper technology has taken a giant unsung leap. It used to be the blades were shot after a year, they’d start squeaking and streaking, maybe sooner if the car was parked in the sun. Now you buy a new car and the wipers are still good after 5 years.

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Not weatherproof, just the same old paper filter found on all cars.

To get at it, remove the cowling at the base of the windshield that carries water to the drains at the fenders. It was below that. Then you pull it and replace it. I had water in my blower motor once. It turned out that the gasket that friction fit on the bottom of the windshield above the filter slipped off and allowed water to drip off the windshield into the cabin air filter. Bummer.

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does anyone know whether you can cut off the cabin air filter on these two cars
by putting it on inside air? (to keep mice out)
2014 toyota avalon
2019 honda crv

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It wasn’t just GM. In the early '70s, many–perhaps most–American cars featured “hidden windshield wipers”. Of course, they weren’t really hidden, and were merely obscured. The downside is that the wipers got buried in snow if there was a storm while the car was parked, it wasn’t easy to dig them out of the very narrow space. And, if the wipers froze to the windshield, it was difficult to free them. This styling affectation disappeared after a few years.