Belo
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- November 16, 2015
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- City, State
- Rochester, NY
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2015 Explorer Limited
New to the forums, not to forums or cars.
Just picked up a limited 15 explorer in September. Only at 1.5k miles and so far so good. We have a 1k mile roadtrip coming up so I cleaned up the inside and popped the hood to check oil and inspect.
Low and behold in 16 years of car ownership I have my first squirrel nest. This is one of 2 cars parked outside of our 3 and it's near an oak. So of course they pick the new ride over the old truck.
The pics below show the damage partially cleaned up. I did find a small piece of tube in the pile and immediately started thinking evap or vac. Digging around for a while I eventually discover it's tubing to my rear washer reservoir. Ok, this isn't so bad I can drive without that.
What I discovered while searching for the broken tube though is that the squirrel had pulled most of this white cotton from a pad that was inside the passenger front bumper. I don't believe it's supposed to be there and probably padding left over to protect the part pre-install.
The tubing isn't easy to access, and although I've rebuilt engines I don't feel like fixing this...
So, if the pad wasn't supposed to be there, and the rodent used it to make a nest, should it be covered? Should the dealer fix it on good faith assuming it's pretty cheap? Just wondering what I'm in for.
nest was here in red. garbage is what I pulled out
padding found behind washer fluid reservoir
broken tube
Just picked up a limited 15 explorer in September. Only at 1.5k miles and so far so good. We have a 1k mile roadtrip coming up so I cleaned up the inside and popped the hood to check oil and inspect.
Low and behold in 16 years of car ownership I have my first squirrel nest. This is one of 2 cars parked outside of our 3 and it's near an oak. So of course they pick the new ride over the old truck.
The pics below show the damage partially cleaned up. I did find a small piece of tube in the pile and immediately started thinking evap or vac. Digging around for a while I eventually discover it's tubing to my rear washer reservoir. Ok, this isn't so bad I can drive without that.
What I discovered while searching for the broken tube though is that the squirrel had pulled most of this white cotton from a pad that was inside the passenger front bumper. I don't believe it's supposed to be there and probably padding left over to protect the part pre-install.
The tubing isn't easy to access, and although I've rebuilt engines I don't feel like fixing this...
So, if the pad wasn't supposed to be there, and the rodent used it to make a nest, should it be covered? Should the dealer fix it on good faith assuming it's pretty cheap? Just wondering what I'm in for.
nest was here in red. garbage is what I pulled out
padding found behind washer fluid reservoir
broken tube