Where do you drive? I don’t see how an entire cigarette can get to your air filter.
Long shot but if the wheel picked it up into the wheel well it might have been sucked in 
What the hell was my reaction too when she showed me lol
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But the intake is up near the radiator or just above and behind. Are the wheel arches on American cars that shoddily built? For a cigarette to get into the filter it would have to make it through the front grille, through the mesh behind it as some cars have, through a small intake, down the pipe (which is likely curved) and get jammed in the filter. Also if the car was going at such a pace, the speed and pressure of the air flow would likely extinguish the embers as opposed to exacerbating them.
The intake is sometimes inside the side fender, it was on my mustang, doesn’t pull air directly from the grill just ambient air inside the fender well just above the wheel that’s why I mentioned that possibility-as you said no way in hell that went in from the front lol as it is, it’s a one in a million
Ps it’s a Nissan so not “American” per se 
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That’s the first time I’m hearing of that. The more you know.
LOL. But how was I supposed to know?
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Aye, but you’re right about it having a super sharp angle,
On the stang, the opening points to the back on the right side of the car, air travels toward the front but just behind the headlight, it does like a full elbow straight back towards the maf and throttle
Out of curiosity, I just saw on a 99 Sentra, they have a cai that sits behind the bumper in front of the wheel 
I know the thought was that you’re bringing in colder air from outside the bonnet if it’s coming from inside the fenders 
Lol I made the assumption it was a European car when she said it was needing a maf recoding from the dealer
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This might be in a thread I have muted. Either that or my brain has totally collapsed on me.
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No, she was telling me about it on wa yesterday
That was before they found the cratered air filter lol
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The question is though, what happened to the cigarette? If it made its way through the filter and into the engine you’d definitely know. Maybe it burned up before it got through the depth of the filter?
It would’ve burned and been spit out through the exhaust or unfortunately caught up in the cat 
Most of that crud gets incinerated completely as far as I’ve seen
I dropped some rubber boot from the ignition coil into a cylinder a couple weeks ago and spent hours fishing it out with a camera scope and a little grabber tool but some rubber was left in there about 1cm and that got burnt up when I went back to check
or stuck in the intake manifold up above? 
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It looks like spring but it’s actually pretty cold
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Wow, serious conversation about the cigarette and my car. lol I was in stop and go traffic. No speed to extinguish embers. I’m guessing it was a butt someone just flicked out their window, not a whole one. If it even was a cigarette. That was his assumption.
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Then it’s even less likely to be a cigarette, unless someone walked up, opened your bonnet and shoved it in the filter.
It could of gotten in when I was going regular speed, then affected the filter enough when I was on the highway in stop and go. Or just an ember got sucked in. It was a fluke thing. I just don’t know what else it could have been.
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