Dirty air filter
#1
Newbie
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: York,PA
Posts: 6
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
W204
Dirty air filter
I recently bought a 2010 c300 sport 4matic and it felt sluggish, so I took the air box off and found dirt n leaves... Wth... So I dropped in k&n for $80 from pepboys.... Fitting it together was a little off on the edges but got it together... Big difference from them old dirty filters...
#2
MBWorld Fanatic!
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Delaware
Posts: 1,331
Likes: 0
Received 9 Likes
on
8 Posts
2004 Mazda6, 1993 RX7
Glad you got some power back.
I have not heard of anyone that did dyno work, or simple pressure drop measurements (that I have done on my tracked Rx7) for the oem system. Just a clean filter may very well have returned your lost power, with little help from the K&N filter.
.
I have not heard of anyone that did dyno work, or simple pressure drop measurements (that I have done on my tracked Rx7) for the oem system. Just a clean filter may very well have returned your lost power, with little help from the K&N filter.
.
Last edited by kevink2; 09-24-2012 at 01:53 PM.
#4
MBWorld Fanatic!
I would not use anything else but oem. They are designed to do the job on this car. You are risking your engines longevity.
#5
Newbie
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: York,PA
Posts: 6
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
W204
dirty filter
does anybody know what this secondary filter is for.. it was a fabric type filter inside the cover...the filter covers(1), filter(2) and mysterious filters(3)...
#6
MBWorld Fanatic!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 1,375
Likes: 0
Received 16 Likes
on
15 Posts
2010 C200 CGI
Weird, it looks like the same material used for the cabin filter. This is the first time I've seen secondary filters. Even on the S-class v8's I never saw them when swapping out the filters. Must be a new thing. Is there a part number on them? You can prob cross reference them online.
Trending Topics
#8
Newbie
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: York,PA
Posts: 6
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
W204
Weird, it looks like the same material used for the cabin filter. This is the first time I've seen secondary filters. Even on the S-class v8's I never saw them when swapping out the filters. Must be a new thing. Is there a part number on them? You can prob cross reference them online.
#9
MBWorld Fanatic!
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Delaware
Posts: 1,331
Likes: 0
Received 9 Likes
on
8 Posts
2004 Mazda6, 1993 RX7
Regardless, you need to clean the leaves out during and then after the fall, if you live where the leaves came from, or a similar "heavy" fall area, which includes York Pa. You could also devise a tacky, pre-entry screen before ea intake slot ... perhaps light 1/2" chicken fence screen.
.