Dead Mouse

mice are magic, i had a locking metal file cabinet at work with no holes or any open spots and bottom was metal and i had mice get to my cliff bars.
so some how one of those fuckers got thru a space the size of paper

 

Look in the cowl that's where the air comes from to the inside

 

Probably isn't part of the warranty however proper operation of the installed systems is and I would complain the the installed heating and A/C were not functioning properly. Let them find the problem and resolution then show me a written exclusion for the the solution in the warranty. After all the OP does not know what the cause is as he has not found and solved the problem.

 

If it's not in the blower motor (had one die in there on my first gen) then it might be on/behind/near the heater radiator?. Usually that's behind/under the radio. The heat from that radiator or the fan in your blower are the only things I can think of that would kill a mouse in the system.

 

Took it into a shop today.He said in all his years there he has seen a lot of these situations and they are all Toyotas Said they would probably have to take the cowling off by the wipers and hopefully find it in that area and then epoxy a screen around the inlet to prevent future invasions.He said it would cost around 150 dollars.