Originally Posted by
gp1200x
I packed my trunk and drove on an 8 hour trip (fairly non-stop) at highway speeds between 65-80 mph. No issues but occasionally I smelt electronics -- like something electrical was overheating...like a burnt wire smell. I didn't realize it was coming from my car at first since I was in a crowded manufacturing area. After getting home I realized that the rear trunk vent under the hatch was blocked quite a bit so I'm wondering if I prevented sufficient air flow to a critical area. What is the purpose of the air vent and what does it do.
Afterwards I took the car on a test ride for an hour or so and tried all the electronics and everything seems to function properly. The odor seemed to have dissipated too but I may have partially damaged something even though I see no issues yet.
Any thoughts?? Thanks
Those holes in the rear trunk liner allow air to flow through the car, this air exits the car through baffled vents in each rear wheel well. It also saves your eardrums when a door is slammed with you inside the car.
Without the trunk liners fitted the rubber fingers of the baffles make the sound of dried leaves blowing around in your trunk.
I guess your local rodents could get in the car through those vents as well.
I killed one mouse in the garage yesterday, My cat killed one in the basement last week, she let another escape as she played with it. I let her have it to kill but that was not what happened, she waits in the basement for hours. No dead bodies so she either loses them or lets them go and thinks of them as toys. Whatever, traps will be set in the basement tomorrow. My last cat and I killed about ten the year before last, when my cat killed hers she laid them out like in a funeral parlour, all unmarked not a scratch on them. She knew what to do even at the ripe old age of twenty.