Rat smell in Hilux

Sounds like you still have one somewhere.?

Craig W2
There is rat fur against the A/C evaporator on the fan side.
Need to remove the fan and the fan speed resistor to gain some access to blow this mess out, from against the evaporator.
Then you can treat this area directly with your weaponry of odour removers.
You may have to remove the LH guard to make sure no more rats are in the air intake tract there.Then put some steel mesh fly screen over the air inlet in the inner guard.
Thanks Graham

a real radicial fix but will work ...........
Get bucket of very hot water and sterilizer, something like floor cleaner, try to avoid bleach or acids, and find where your intake for the recirc air is and work out a system of getting it into it, i used a funnel and tube and spray bottle ..
start her up, turn fan on flat out and pour a little in, at that stage make certain it is draining out the a/c water drain .....
Then pour it in to it in volumes so that it really gets into all bits n peices, it does not hurt to over do the detergent so you have bubbles coming out the vents ....
Work your way to putting in clean warm water to flush out all the chemicals and you will clean it out as best is possible short of removing complete dash.
I ended up getting the garden hose and spraying it into the intake, removed the floor mats and rubber plug in the floor pan

Be warned it may shorten the life of the fan motor if the breather for it is part of the ducting and it may drip onto some electricial componentes, radios ect....
But if you really want it clean then it is the only option left...

Afterwards the a/c will work the best it ever has and all smells will be gone
And yes it works ...
Cheers
Joe

Forget chemicals, you need someone with an OZONE machine to kill the bacteria.

Let it run in the vehicle for an hour and the smell will be gone for good.

This is something chemicals can't do.

Hi Craig,

I have been through exactly your situation word for word with a Ford Courier I use for work.
It took at least 12 months for the smell to go and even 2 years later on a really hot day when the car was locked up you would get a tiny hint of the smell when the AC was turned on.
It has been about 3 years now and it has all gone.
I cant believe they still build cars that have open air intakes that dont have a grill over it preventing access by vermin.
I also used Chlorine a fair bit but got away with it because I had rubber floor covering and no carpet. A few drips did come out and I still have a few paris of jeans with white spots near the ankles. Chlorine probably had the best impact on reducing the swell.

BW