MINCX is no spring chicken, despite the odometer at just over 10K. That’s less than a thousand miles a year without violating her vanity…
Along the way a rodent got started on a nesting situation, compromising the filter mildly. Doesn’t matter where or when, a solution does. Some well placed mesh won’t alter flow, just traffic…
The new filter is bigger, stronger (screen enforced) and simply downright better. It may be rodent resistant by nature of materials, but it’s easy enough to protect it and not find out!
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