Vent in the left side of the trunk?

Vent in the left side of the trunk?

Has anyone ever closed up that vent in the drivers side of the trunk? It has about 4 horizontal rubber flaps, its in the left corner of the trunk and vents out to the inside of the rear bumper. Know what I'm talkin about? I live in a dusty area and there is a bunch of dirt in the left side. It will probably leak out into the finished trunk space so I was thinking of sealing it up. Anyone know what exactly its for? keeping animals alive in the trunk?

no idea what ur talkin about...take a pic

Ok. I'm not quite sure how its getting inside. I know it goes out into the bumper, which I thought was filled with styrofoam. The wheel well covers are on there. I should look at it closely to find out. There are alot of dirt/gravel roads around here. Alaska is very dusty and dry during the summer. I can't wait to move back to Maryland, then I can keep my car clean!

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If you do cover it up I would not make it permanent until you do some research and see if it causes problems the 2 that I can think of are 1, harder to close the doors (path for trapped air path changed) and 2, you may have problems with condensation build up (depending on your climate) I cannot run my system on "recirc" for very long or the windows will fog up and I think that vent is part of the exit path for the air running through the system. CW

I know what you're talking about. I believe it is to let air out of the trunk when you slam it closed. I guess there probably wouldn't be a problem with covering it up but how was dirt getting into it? I've never had a problem with that.