Please Help ID this filter and its normal location

[SageBrush]

I knocked this piece off while cleaning the car. I think it came from the area of the driver footwell but I cannot be sure.
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Thanks!

 

[Phlier]

Well, great.... this just triggered my OCD; I MUST find out where that came from. Back in a few minutes.... or possibly a few hours.

*sigh*

 

[TLLMRRJ]

Just something else to maintain on a maintenance-free car...

 

[Phlier]

This is looking up above and to the left of the brake pedal. It looks like that filter might go behind this plate, but if that's really where it goes, it would've been quite the feat to accidentally knock it through the covering plate.

I'll keep looking...

 

[Phlier]

Well, I'm at a loss. My 2019 Model 3 just doesn't have any place in either the driver or passenger side footwells for such a filter to be located, unless it's behind the plate in the photo above. Looks to me that that's a filter they decided they didn't need and possibly deleted in the 2019 and subsequent years? Maybe?

There just isn't anywhere for that thing to go in my car.

Edit: Maybe someone with access to the Model 3 parts catalog can do a search for the word "filter" and let us know what they come up with?

 

[SageBrush]

Thanks for your help, @Phlier

I also do not think that is the right spot since the grill is still in place.

I tried using airflow (top,middle,bottom) to identify each air outlet and still could not find the right location. LOL

 

[Phlier]

Just found a Tesla Model 3 parts catalog. Downloadable, even.

Searching it now...

 

[Phlier]

Well darnit, SageBrush, apparently I really am as useless as my wife says...

I can't even find that filter in any of the available online Model 3 parts catalogs.

Sorry, man.... Let us know what you find out?

 

[Phlier]

Hey, ummmmmm..... Just thinking out loud, here....

That's not the filter off of the vacuum cleaner you were using to clean your car, is it?

I mean, that's certainly not something that I'D do, that's for sure. /hides filter behind back.

 

[SageBrush]

Just found a Tesla Model 3 parts catalog. Downloadable, even.

Searching it now...

Good idea !

I just checked -- no part # on either piece. That is a bit strange in and of itself.

 

[SageBrush]

Hey, ummmmmm..... Just thinking out loud, here....

That's not the filter off of the vacuum cleaner you were using to clean your car, is it?

I mean, that's certainly not something that I'D do, that's for sure. /hides filter behind back.

That was it !!

I owe you a beer.

 

[SageBrush]

apparently I really am as useless as my wife says...

So you just imagine what my wife says about me

 

[Gumball]

Check your vacuum cleaner......ROFL