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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: SP_3.2 on 27 October 2010, 13:17:48

Title: Air Filter change
Post by: SP_3.2 on 27 October 2010, 13:17:48

Not how to  ;D ;D this one even i can do ;) ;).
But how offten. I did mine about 12 months ago. having looked at it a few months back looks ok, but is it just best to change it every 12 months  to be on the safe side.

Would give me somthing to do at  lunch. It,s MOT time on Thursday.
Thanks
Steve    

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: Kevin Wood on 27 October 2010, 13:58:33

Even with relatively heavy mileage 12 months will be fine, IMHO. It's a very large filter so takes a while to get significantly dirty.

Kevin

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 27 October 2010, 14:04:21

Service schedules is something along the lines of every 20k miles, something like that?

As usual it's a case of does it look due for a change. Depends how near to a coalyard you live, really.  :)

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: SP_3.2 on 27 October 2010, 14:25:30

Cool, Thanks All. :y

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 27 October 2010, 16:10:43

No worries!



PS Had to type this, as my post count was 407, and I couldnt possible have a Peugeot as my post count, shudder!!   :y

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: PhilRich on 27 October 2010, 16:16:43

I remove mine at the 10month stage & vacuum out the crud in the bottom of the filter box, then I remove the hot glue seals to open up the 'accordion' & clean it out with a clean paintbrush & replace, but then i'm a Northerner half way between Yorkshire & Scotland, so it's in my genes to be tight careful where any expense is concerned! ;) :y

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: smithpa7 on 27 October 2010, 16:55:41

Haynes manual recommends every 2 years :y

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: Kneepad on 27 October 2010, 22:29:29

Quote

I remove mine at the 10month stage & vacuum out the crud in the bottom of the filter box, then I remove the hot glue seals to open up the 'accordion' & clean it out with a clean paintbrush & replace, but then i'm a Northerner half way between Yorkshire & Scotland, so it's in my genes to be tight careful where any expense is concerned! ;) :y

A few words spring to  mind:

tight,  duck,  4r$3         ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: Abiton on 27 October 2010, 22:54:25

Quote

I remove mine at the 10month stage & vacuum out the crud in the bottom of the filter box, then I remove the hot glue seals to open up the 'accordion' & clean it out with a clean paintbrush & replace, but then i'm a Northerner half way between Yorkshire & Scotland, so it's in my genes to be tight careful where any expense is concerned! ;) :y

If you're going to go to this much trouble, you may as well apply the vacuum cleaner to the dirty side of the flattened filter while you're at it, no? As long as it doesn't suck so hard that it tears the thing.  ;D  :y

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: markh1 on 29 October 2010, 09:08:09

Replaced mine last night. Bought a genuine VX one after advice on here.

The picture below shows the old one (the previous owner obviously did not fit a VX one) and the new one. Like someone on here said, the VX ones have twice the surface area of the non standard.

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh23/markjrh1/DSC00392.jpg)

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: Omega_Dan on 29 October 2010, 09:20:00

the one one is in a right state! will breathe much better now and should last longer. :y

Title: Re: Air Filter change
Post by: mathewst on 29 October 2010, 09:24:05

There was a lot of talk about VX filter having bigger surface, I replaced mine couple of months ago. Bought MAN filter and can't see th original VX having any chance of being bigger since this one barely fits and has large surface!?