Why cunning summer residents remove cabin filters from their cars
- May 2, 2023
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At the beginning of the May holidays, our citizens went to their dachas. And there simple maintenance is added to the traditional car wash. For example, many drivers
At the beginning of the May holidays, our citizens went to their dachas. And there simple maintenance is added to the traditional car wash. For example, many drivers remove the cabin filter and store it until autumn. The AvtoVzglyad portal tells why they are doing this and what such actions lead to.
Mates with twenty years of experience constantly conduct such operations and advise young people. Like, outside the city the air is clean, so there is no need to filter it. And after winter, the consumable gets dirty, which provokes the formation of condensate on the walls of the ventilation system – especially during spring temperature changes or in the rain. Therefore, the “salon” is dismantled, thoroughly cleaned and put in a box somewhere until better times.
Here we note that the experienced are only partly right. The consumable can get really wet, but it all depends on the design of a particular car and its condition. For example, in a 1996 Volvo 850 or some Audi models, the filter element is located under the windshield. If the drainage holes are also clogged, water will surely fall on them. This leads to fogging of glasses, shrinking rubber bands and eventually to mold. In addition, pathogenic bacteria will enter the salon.
However, in modern cars, the scheme is such that the “salon” is located deep underground, and it is quite difficult for moisture to penetrate it – therefore it will be dirty, but dry. Hence the first advice – clean the drain so that the water can drain freely. So moisture will not cause problems, and there will be no local corrosion of the body in hidden cavities.
Go ahead. In the spring, a strong allergen – plant pollen appears, and the roadwork begins. In addition, exhaust gases do not evaporate anywhere. Maybe you’re planning to spend the whole summer out of town, but you still need to go to the store. So if the car has lost the inverter in addition to the interior, you are constantly breathing “exhaust”.
The result – this whole “flower mud set” enters the cabin through the air ducts and passes through the filter, which is somewhere in storage. Dirt interferes with the movement of the dampers that regulate the distribution of air flows. In addition, it causes corrosion of the air conditioning heater core and evaporator.
To clean or replace an expensive evaporator, in some cases it is necessary to disassemble the front panel, and such work costs a lot of money. Therefore, it is better not to remove the filter, but to dry and replace it regularly. So you avoid disastrous repairs and save your lung health.
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Mates with twenty years of experience constantly conduct such operations and advise young people. Like, outside the city the air is clean, so there is no need to filter it. And after winter, the consumable gets dirty, which provokes the formation of condensate on the walls of the ventilation system – especially during spring temperature changes or in the rain. Therefore, the “salon” is dismantled, thoroughly cleaned and put in a box somewhere until better times.
Here we note that the experienced are only partly right. The consumable can get really wet, but it all depends on the design of a particular car and its condition. For example, in a 1996 Volvo 850 or some Audi models, the filter element is located under the windshield. If the drainage holes are also clogged, water will surely fall on them. This leads to fogging of glasses, shrinking rubber bands and eventually to mold. In addition, pathogenic bacteria will enter the salon.
However, in modern cars, the scheme is such that the “salon” is located deep underground, and it is quite difficult for moisture to penetrate it – therefore it will be dirty, but dry. Hence the first advice – clean the drain so that the water can drain freely. So moisture will not cause problems, and there will be no local corrosion of the body in hidden cavities.
Go ahead. In the spring, a strong allergen – plant pollen appears, and the roadwork begins. In addition, exhaust gases do not evaporate anywhere. Maybe you’re planning to spend the whole summer out of town, but you still need to go to the store. So if the car has lost the inverter in addition to the interior, you are constantly breathing “exhaust”.
The result – this whole “flower mud set” enters the cabin through the air ducts and passes through the filter, which is somewhere in storage. Dirt interferes with the movement of the dampers that regulate the distribution of air flows. In addition, it causes corrosion of the air conditioning heater core and evaporator.
To clean or replace an expensive evaporator, in some cases it is necessary to disassemble the front panel, and such work costs a lot of money. Therefore, it is better not to remove the filter, but to dry and replace it regularly. So you avoid disastrous repairs and save your lung health.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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