Rats ate my air filter??

[faniebraai]

So I take my car for a service. Mid morning they phone me and ask if they can change the air filter because it looks like Rats got into it.

There is holes or evidence of rats anywhere, except the filter itself.

So, is this rats or mice, or can something else cause this?

 

[Stevi]

Put a block of cheese in with the new filter and see which one gets eaten first

 

[akescpt]

that looks nasty. put some traps out to check. you don't want those things in the house.

 

[Fudzy]

Were there any rat poops in the filter housing?

 

[ost]

You dont want them eating your wiring. That is costly. Warranty and insurance doesn't cover rat damage

 

[faniebraai]

Were there any rat poops in the filter housing?

no idea. they didn't say anything. but to be honest, that doesn't look like rats to me. too much in the middle and in the same place. also, after the service (which was its first) all the torque steer seems to be gone, which was a big issue for me the first 20,000km

 

[Milano]

looks like Rattus norvegicus aka bigassrats

 

[Magnum]

You dont want them eating your wiring. That is costly. Warranty and insurance doesn't cover rat damage

Yeah WTF is up with HMF rats eating copper wire and isolation? I have seen them chow straight thru network cable for no reason other than to get to the copper. These damn South African copper stealing rats.

Or is it to get back at the Cat 6?

 

[T-Man]

... rats eating copper wire ...

Or is it to get back at the Cat 6?

Excellent

 

[faniebraai]

Excellent

 

[aapkop]

Check the intake pipe for any loose pieces of wire that could have gotten stuck in there.
The shape of that looks like something that was floating around that was loose in the intake side.
The bends on the filter media indicates that the air intake to the engine was more than what the filter allowed and started to make a vacuum and started sucking the filter inwards.
The color of the media looks if it from the GUD/FRAM stable undercover for the OEM.

 

[Fudzy]

no idea. they didn't say anything. but to be honest, that doesn't look like rats to me. too much in the middle and in the same place. also, after the service (which was its first) all the torque steer seems to be gone, which was a big issue for me the first 20,000km

Torque steer? What car do you have?

 

[SauRoNZA]

How the hell are you driving that you are getting torque steer?

You should only ever feel that if you are doing flat out hard launches. Otherwise it's not torque steer.

 

[Drifter]

Well that ^^^ i snot entirely true. I get plenty torque steer on my ST.

 

[faniebraai]

Torque steer? What car do you have?

Focus ST

 

[faniebraai]

How the hell are you driving that you are getting torque steer?

You should only ever feel that if you are doing flat out hard launches. Otherwise it's not torque steer.

exactly this. and that combined with traction control/ESP made it a bit of a nightmare in first gear

 

[faniebraai]

Check the intake pipe for any loose pieces of wire that could have gotten stuck in there.
The shape of that looks like something that was floating around that was loose in the intake side.
The bends on the filter media indicates that the air intake to the engine was more than what the filter allowed and started to make a vacuum and started sucking the filter inwards.
The color of the media looks if it from the GUD/FRAM stable undercover for the OEM.

Will open it up over the weekend, and see if the filter is still okay. Thanks oom aap.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Well that ^^^ i snot entirely true. I get plenty torque steer on my ST.

Yes because it's too much power for a FWD car.

And as Fanie pointed out now he also drives one and in the fashion I mentioned so that explains it all.

 

[faniebraai]

Yes because it's too much power for a FWD car.

And as Fanie pointed out now he also drives one and in the fashion I mentioned so that explains it all.

I had a Polo GTi, 2011. Same-ish 0-100. no torque steer of any kind.

Any Golf GTi owners here who have torque steer?

 

[Fudzy]

I had a Polo GTi, 2011. Same-ish 0-100. no torque steer of any kind.

Any Golf GTi owners here who have torque steer?

Engine in the Polo GTI is a lot smaller isn't it?