Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: TheBoy on 10 March 2014, 10:01:05
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Came across this, told its normal. Why the extra wadding?
(http://theboy.omegaowners.com/oofpics/odds/airfilterwadding.JPG)
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as a silencer? Extra filter to stop bigger bits like leaves(unlikely I know) clogging the filter? as a packer to hold the paper filter in place?
Probably a combination of all of those, although I doubt it does much of any of them. After all, it is a German car, and they go to all sorts of complicated lengths for what is really only a theoretical improvement.
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No, that's not normal. From dealers? :o
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No, that's not normal. From dealers? :o
That was my first thought. But now I have to glue it back on :-[
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Is the same filter used on Insignia? Thinking it's EU rule for newer cars? :-\
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The filter I bought from Vauxhall for my sister in law's Astra J was like that too.
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The filter I bought from Vauxhall for my sister in law's Astra J was like that too.
I bet it's their new 'standard' for filter, they can't be bothered to make one without for older cars...
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Probably doubles the life of the filter ::)
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My Zafira uses the same :y
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The filter I bought from Vauxhall for my sister in law's Astra J was like that too.
I bet it's their new 'standard' for filter, they can't be bothered to make one without for older cars...
No, that's proper stock-control. It makes perfect sense to anyone who has had to do that sort of work.
Imagine the fuss you'd all be making if the 'old' filters had this wadding, and new ones didn't!
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I get it's cheaper to mass produce the same filter, hence saying it ;)
The point being the Omega has never needed this extra wadding before, the engine management and breathing was setup without this. I bet that lot of the updated parts here were not tested on the older models (as why would they?)
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This isnt on an Omega....
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Ah missed that bit ;D
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Guessing post 2007 :-\
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Ah missed that bit ;D
Why on earth would you assume that TB (known Omega lover) would be posting about an Omega air filter on this Omega forum.. I don't know, some people.. ;) ;D
(OK, you'd hope he'd use the right forum section if he was, I suppose ;D)
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as a silencer? Extra filter to stop bigger bits like leaves(unlikely I know) clogging the filter? as a packer to hold the paper filter in place?
Probably a combination of all of those, although I doubt it does much of any of them. After all, it is a German car, and they go to all sorts of complicated lengths for what is really only a theoretical improvement.
+1,pretty sure its there to cut induction noise :y
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In that case perhaps I should refit that bit of plastic what which I liberated from the filter housing ::)
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Not my car. :P
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Not my car. :P
Fine, I'll leave it off then :y