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SAnd
10-08-2020, 18:40
With all the fires around it would be a good idea to check or replace any air filter around your area. I tend to forget the cabin air filter in my car. Technically the official name for mine is the Climate Control Air Filter.

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Duman
10-08-2020, 18:43
Good idea......
hatidua
10-08-2020, 19:14
Did both this morning....after only five months on the last set. Too many dusty roads this summer for me.
TEAMRICO
10-08-2020, 19:15
Damn, now I gotta check....on my day off. Welp, time to teach the boy about air filters in cars. ChangIng flat tires, check. Change Oil and filters, check. He needs Man Skillz.
ray1970
10-08-2020, 19:16
Thanks. Been commuting back and forth from here to Laramie all week. Lots of smoke up north of Fort Collins. I?m sure the cabin filter in the company truck is a little less new now.
MrPrena
10-08-2020, 19:47
Every 4 years, I do change my cabin filter. :D
Gman
10-08-2020, 19:55
I only make it to the next oil change on a new filter. Cabin filter has been filthy each time.
rondog
10-08-2020, 23:45
Thanks for the poke! I'm sure mine's overdue, as often as I go out to BLGC.
00tec
10-09-2020, 09:54
Ford stopped putting climate control filters in vehicles because nobody changed 'em, so mine is good.
ray1970
10-09-2020, 11:54
Ford stopped putting climate control filters in vehicles because nobody changed 'em, so mine is good.

Nice. So my company truck should be good to go then.
MrPrena
10-09-2020, 15:02
Charcoal based cabin air filter cost more.
eddiememphis
10-09-2020, 19:40
Check your furnace filter as well if you have central air.

I did a home inspection today and the filter was filthy, although I have no idea the last time it was replaced.
Punkface
10-10-2020, 10:24
Check your furnace filter as well if you have central air.

I did a home inspection today and the filter was filthy, although I have no idea the last time it was replaced.

I replace my furnace filter every 3 months. I wait until Costco does their annual sale on them and stock up on HEPA filters.
I've been going through them like crazy with the smoke from the wild fires on my ghetto portable air filter (20" box fan with a hepa filter taped on to it). Thing is dark grey after 2 weeks of running it inside.
MrPrena
10-10-2020, 18:53
You would not believe how many brand new air filter for heater/ac system I have at home.

I pick up those sealed 3M high end purple ones at garage sale for ~$1ea.
rondog
02-25-2021, 05:08
Meant to reply to this months ago - changed out the one in my Silverado in October, it was nasty. But then, I changed out the two in the wife's Kia Sorento, and holy shit! I'd never seen anything like them! They looked like they'd been sprayed down with MC chain lube, then had a vacuum bag dumped on them, then repeated a couple more times! Unreal.

I showed them to the wife and she was appalled - especially when I told her that her smoking was the most likely cause. Amazingly, her heater and AC actually blows air now.....hell, they'd only been in there since 2007.
thvigil11
02-25-2021, 14:00
Just for fun, here is a shot of the filters from two of our type 6 engines from 3 days of initial attack on a large wildfire last year.

http://i.imgur.com/GpxfMVv.jpg (https://imgur.com/GpxfMVv)
wctriumph
02-25-2021, 14:14
I have a Dodge, a Mercury and a Chevy; none of them have a cabin filter.

Thanks for the poke. My previous Expedition had one.
Sawin
02-25-2021, 14:52
Just pulled the two cabin air filters of my Frontier (used, but new to me). I'm sure they're original, meaning they're a decade old.... I've seen worse, but not in any of my own cars before. Thanks for the nudge.