Sawdust on car?

Buying house2020

Hi,

I know very little about cars etc., so please be patient with me and I hope this doesn't sound like too much like a silly question..

My neighbours took a chainsaw to several pieces of old furniture and wardrobe doors yesterday to cut them up outside. They proceed to do the sawing right in front of my car (we live in a tight row of terraces, by the time I knew what they were doing outside, it was too late for me to move my car, as it it was hemmed in with their trailer and car and they were in the middle of the work. They were sawing the furniture in line with the level of the grills and vents at the front of my car ( apologies I don't know the exact technical terms).

The area outside it totally covered in a substantial amount of sawdust. So I can only imagine how much might have possibly entered my car inside? I'm not worried about the sawdust on the car body as it can be washed off, but I am worried about what might have entered the car grills/vents/filters? Is that something that could happen? I don't really understand the mechanics of a car, but I am worried about this.

I am thinking of bringing the car to a car wash today, or would that only push in the saw dust further inside the vents and the grille?

TIA.

Toyotafanboi

Wouldn't worry. Sawdust cant really do any harm to anything on your car and cars are designed to and are exposed to dust and dirt on a daily basis. The engine intake has an air filter and your cabin vents have an air filter too which would easily catch sawdust.

Be sound of your neighbour to pay gor a wash though.

Buying house2020

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Wouldn't worry. Sawdust cant really do any harm to anything on your car and cars are designed to and are exposed to dust and dirt on a daily basis. The engine intake has an air filter and your cabin vents have an air filter too which would easily catch sawdust.

Be sound of your neighbour to pay gor a wash though.

Thanks Toyotafanboi for your reply, I was really worried, especially about myself and other family members inhaling any sawdust inside the car (we have a few asthmatics in the family).

Do you think getting the car washed today would be a good idea or would the power washer only push the saw dust inside the car grill even further?

Thanks

Toyotafanboi

Be no harm to give it a rinse but on most cars the grille isn't directly connected to anything so anything that passes through the grille just ends up back on the ground eventually anyway.

Turbolounge

Your car has an air filter and cabin air filters for this exact reason. If you drove on a dusty road, it shouldn't damage your engine at all. I'd imagine even if a little bit of sawdust in the engine it wouldn't do damage.

CoBo55

Air entry for the heating/ventilation system is higher up usually just under the windscreen, as others have said your filters should take care of it.