Originally Posted by slacktide_bitog
Originally Posted by GeekOnTheHill
I live in the boonies, and there's a lot of dust. This is what mine usually looks like after six months:
That may not look horrible, but bear in mind that it's only six months of schmutz. I wouldn't want to let it get much worse than that, so I just change it when I change the oil filter and engine air filter, which I do twice a year.
Richard
Yuck!
You may wish to consider Bosch's HEPA cabin filter, if they make one for your car
They don't, at least not the last time I checked. I usually just use the KIA OEM one because it's convenient to pick it up when I buy the oil filter. On KIA and Hyundai engines, using the OEM oil filter is supposed to be very important. I don't know how true that is; but I've looked inside them, and they're very good filters and very inexpensive, so I use them. I just pick up the CAF at the same time.
On a closely-related topic, I once knew a guy who was going through blower motor resistors at a ridiculous rate. Turns out a family of mice had been living in the HVAC system somewhere. I removed the mouse nest, and he never burned out another resistor. I guess the mouse nest was blocking the airflow and causing the resistor to overheat. (The car didn't have a CAF.)
He wasn't too happy knowing he'd been breathing in mouse poop and pee all that time...
Richard
Originally Posted by GeekOnTheHill
I live in the boonies, and there's a lot of dust. This is what mine usually looks like after six months:
That may not look horrible, but bear in mind that it's only six months of schmutz. I wouldn't want to let it get much worse than that, so I just change it when I change the oil filter and engine air filter, which I do twice a year.
Richard
Yuck!
You may wish to consider Bosch's HEPA cabin filter, if they make one for your car
They don't, at least not the last time I checked. I usually just use the KIA OEM one because it's convenient to pick it up when I buy the oil filter. On KIA and Hyundai engines, using the OEM oil filter is supposed to be very important. I don't know how true that is; but I've looked inside them, and they're very good filters and very inexpensive, so I use them. I just pick up the CAF at the same time.
On a closely-related topic, I once knew a guy who was going through blower motor resistors at a ridiculous rate. Turns out a family of mice had been living in the HVAC system somewhere. I removed the mouse nest, and he never burned out another resistor. I guess the mouse nest was blocking the airflow and causing the resistor to overheat. (The car didn't have a CAF.)
He wasn't too happy knowing he'd been breathing in mouse poop and pee all that time...
Richard
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