2017~2024 I dropped a small plastic item in CX-5 air vent

[xitrum99]

Help!!!
My situation is that my nephew put a lego piece in my car’s AC vent, and it’s about 1cm wide and long, I tried to get it out but It dropped back in during the process and now It’s gone… would It have any critical or prolonged effect to my car?

 

[sm1ke]

Was it one of these?

I would guess that you might hear it rattling around in there when you drive over small bumps. I'm not sure if it's big enough to create a blockage that you could notice, but if it does, here is a thread referencing dashboard and vent removal. There is a video at the end of this thread that may also prove useful.

Need help/tips to remove AC vents on a 2017 CX-5

anybody have any tips/links on how to remove the AC Vents in a 2017 CX-5 looking to access the Infotainment unit (to apply the AIO Tweaks by connecting to the serial port) read some posts/watched video for the 3 series vehicles, gave it a shot with some plastic pry tools but no luck...

mazdas247.com

 

[RedBaron]

It's not too difficult to remove the vent trim to see if you can reach in to get it. That whole piece (center vents to far right vent) is just held on with clips & you can pull/pry the whole piece off.

Instructions attached

 

[xitrum99]

It's not too difficult to remove the vent trim to see if you can reach in to get it. That whole piece (center vents to far right vent) is just held on with clips & you can pull/pry the whole piece off.

Instructions attached

Was it one of these?

I would guess that you might hear it rattling around in there when you drive over small bumps. I'm not sure if it's big enough to create a blockage that you could notice, but if it does, here is a thread referencing dashboard and vent removal. There is a video at the end of this thread that may also prove useful.

Need help/tips to remove AC vents on a 2017 CX-5

anybody have any tips/links on how to remove the AC Vents in a 2017 CX-5 looking to access the Infotainment unit (to apply the AIO Tweaks by connecting to the serial port) read some posts/watched video for the 3 series vehicles, gave it a shot with some plastic pry tools but no luck...

mazdas247.com

I have tried removing the panel to look for the lego piece, but I couldnt find it (nor it’s too small to see?), my guess is It’s on the cooling system because of its noise while moving, and the noise is quite close to the AC vent, but the vent is too small to put sth in and take out the lego piece. I am worrying it might fall deeper inside and damage the AC system, or It might just jump around on the cooling system?

 

[jadmt]

it really can't fall anywhere that can really hurt anything, so other than a possible rattle not worth worrying too much about.

 

[Silly Wabbit]

Just spitballing.. if you have removed the trim pieces, try to seal off the side vents and one of the middle vents, then turn fan on to top speed and maybe even add a shop vac for maximum extraction power. Hopefully such tiny piece of Lego will comply with such efforts.

 

[Silly Wabbit]

If all fails, just check your cabin filter periodically and see if it might shake itself to there.