Like the title says, I went out of town for about 2 weeks and came home to a dead battery. Popped the hood to find a nest of baby squirrels in the back of the engine bay right under the master cylinder.
I was able to convince the squirrels to move out without much trouble then cleaned out the nest they left behind. Once I started the car I instantly got P0031 and P0051 which seemed odd because I just replaced the A/F sensors less than 6 months ago. So I looked a little closer at the squirrels eviction site and this is what I saw.
The big circle is where the real damage is, right under that bunch of wires coming off the master. That wire runs into a connector and a small fuse box with fuses/relays for the air pump and the A/F heater.
The small circle shows it looks like they chewed the hood release cable (no big deal) and the other wire coming out of the firewall which I am unsure what it is.
Am I totally screwed? Or is this somehow repairable? I think it's beyond my skillset to repair unless I can somehow bypass that fuse box while getting rid of the CEL
I was able to convince the squirrels to move out without much trouble then cleaned out the nest they left behind. Once I started the car I instantly got P0031 and P0051 which seemed odd because I just replaced the A/F sensors less than 6 months ago. So I looked a little closer at the squirrels eviction site and this is what I saw.
The big circle is where the real damage is, right under that bunch of wires coming off the master. That wire runs into a connector and a small fuse box with fuses/relays for the air pump and the A/F heater.
The small circle shows it looks like they chewed the hood release cable (no big deal) and the other wire coming out of the firewall which I am unsure what it is.
Am I totally screwed? Or is this somehow repairable? I think it's beyond my skillset to repair unless I can somehow bypass that fuse box while getting rid of the CEL