2005 WRX hood scoop

I've had this car for three spring seasons. For some reason, this spring has been the season that the local house wrens decided that building nests on my intercooler was a good thing. They hop right in the hood scoop. I have to admit, it's a perfect size for them.

I can't believe that I'm the only guy on the planet with this trouble. Surely someone makes some sort of screen to put inside the hood scoop to keep out small critters and plant material (when flogging up and down those old logging roads). But if there's an off-the-shelf solution I haven't found it yet.

Any suggestions?

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bwyg
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Mount a scarecrow on your rear spoiler?

sorry - couldn't resist

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DS

There's an entire thread at nasioc about Hoodscoop fishing. I've seena pic of a guy with a swarm of bees in his scoop.

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Carl

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Carl 1 Lucky Texan

I haven't had any problems with my WRX scoop, but some of the guys at wrxnet, NASIOC, etc. have used chicken coop fence or window screen to keep the larger bits of junk out. I've never seen anything commercial.

As for your wren problem, the easiest solution is to throw a towel over the scoop when you park the car. Unless, of course, the wrens are flying into the scoop while you're driving.

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Ragnar

I was annoyed pretty quick, with the lack of some kind of protection for the intercooler. Even within the first few months, several of the fins were crushed by bits of detritus I'd pulled into the scoop.

I opened the hood, pulled out the small plastic pins that hold the rubber surround onto the inside of the hood (I dunno what this thing's really called - airflow baffle, maybe?), and molded some screen door mesh around the opening. I then replaced the rubber surround, stuffed the pins through the mesh as I reinstalled them, and there you go. It won't keep things from getting inside the scoop, but it will protect the cooler - and I think the interference with air flow is pretty minimal.

BD

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BD

You would think the mfr would take care of such an obvious problem. But no.

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KLS

Sure surprised me when I found I could jam my hand in the scoop and touch the cooler fins.

I expect they're argument would be that anything in the scoop would interfere with airflow.

I wanted to get a bug deflector awhile back, but the dealer said I really shouldn't put one on - same reason.

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BD

Probably because it isn't a "problem".

Has anyone ever had a serious problem with the design of the hoodscoop?

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Ragnar

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