Air Filter Efficiency?

craftsman wrote: ↑ I've never seen any published rating on cabin air filters... it would interesting to see how they compare to the home ones especially the ones that are washable.

eugene188 wrote: ↑ So I bought an air filter for the cabin from ebay because I found it was way cheaper than having the dealer install one when I bring the car in.

Pete_Coach wrote: ↑ https://www.carcareninja.com/best-cabin ... r-reviews/
https://innotechfestival.com/best-fresh ... ir-filter/
https://bestreviews.com/best-cabin-air-filters

Personally, I use one that has charcoal as the filter is for eliminating noxious gasses and charcoal does that well. I would not use a washable/re-usable one as you never know if you get it real clean enough...it is air coming into the cabin that you are going to breathe, not the engine for combustion.

booblehead wrote: ↑ Change it once a yr and you are good to go. No need to go into technical analysis

eugene188 wrote: ↑ I totally wanted to try out the carbon ones, but since they were more, and I wasn't sure if it was going to fit.



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Pete_Coach wrote: ↑ https://www.carcareninja.com/best-cabin ... r-reviews/
https://innotechfestival.com/best-fresh ... ir-filter/
https://bestreviews.com/best-cabin-air-filters

Personally, I use one that has charcoal as the filter is for eliminating noxious gasses and charcoal does that well. I would not use a washable/re-usable one as you never know if you get it real clean enough...it is air coming into the cabin that you are going to breathe, not the engine for combustion.

booblehead wrote: ↑ Change it once a yr and you are good to go. No need to go into technical analysis

craftsman wrote: ↑ Those aren't really published ratings nor are they truly reviews... those articles are just rephrasing of the advertising/marketing descriptions on the side of the products boxes. I doubt that any of those sites have even purchased the products they have supposedly reviewed. They seem to be in it to collect the referrals as each one of the products have a referral link to sites like Amazon.

eugene188 wrote: ↑yea since it is the cabin air filter I don't really care. But I wonder how it applies to the engine air filter. Having more folds/surface area with thinner paper, vs less folds with more fluffy paper.

eugene188 wrote: ↑ But I wonder how it applies to the engine air filter. Having more folds/surface area with thinner paper, vs less folds with more fluffy paper.

ES_Revenge wrote: ↑ Counting folds on a replacement cabin air filter....only on RFD, lol. People get so crazy about the weirdest things here, I tell you. I mean I doubt you will even find people on BITOG that question stuff like the "efficiency of a cabin air filter". Good greif, I mean do some of you never open a window in your car ever? Because the moment you do that whatever your cabin air filter does or doesn't do is out the window (pardon the pun?) anyway.

TrevorK wrote: ↑ No offense but opening the window while driving can decrease fuel efficiency to the point that it would cost the average RFD'er $0.58 cents a year extra in fuel. I highly doubt anyone on RFD does that - after all that $0.58 cents could be put towards a used oil filter that still has a good 2000 KM left in it.

ES_Revenge wrote: ↑Counting folds on a replacement cabin air filter....only on RFD, lol. People get so crazy about the weirdest things here, I tell you. I mean I doubt you will even find people on BITOG that question stuff like the "efficiency of a cabin air filter". Good greif, I mean do some of you never open a window in your car ever? Because the moment you do that whatever your cabin air filter does or doesn't do is out the window (pardon the pun?) anyway.

Pete_Coach wrote: ↑ Every filter is made for specific vehicles. You put in your vehicle information and it will let you know what pat number filter you need.