Thought I would share an experience that I had last weekend when I took the Challenger out for a spin. Not a story about stomping a Chevy or Ford or blowing up something in my motor. What happened to me took me completely by surprise and I sincerely hope it doesn't happen to any of you (especially while you're driving).
What happened to me was: as I was accelerating away from a stoplight and suddenly the whole interior of the car was filled with debris. The air was filled with unidentifiable small bits of stuff that momentarily blinded me. Mind you, there are other stoplights ahead and I'm trying to brush the debris off of my face and out of my eyes without becoming another traffic statistic. I was able to pull off to the side of the road and try to figure out what had happened and that's when I saw that the debris had entered the interior through the vents (which were open because of the heat).
When I got home, I started looking around the cowl inlets for any debris that may be laying there ... nothing! So I stuck my arm into the cowl as far as I could ... nothing! Finally, I stuck a paint stirring stick further down into the cowl (near to where the cowl and the vent meet) and that's when I felt something. I hooked it with a wire and pulled it out and couldn't believe my eyes.
It was a mouse nest that partially entered the vent when I was accelerating from the stoplight! All of that debris was stuff that the mouse had used to build the nest.
So a word of caution to everyone - mice love our cars. This time I was lucky and the critter didn't chew through anything vital. Hope this doesn't happen to any of you.
