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Crispin · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 21:23 Post subject: Air con filter cleaning

Anyone with a 120 ever checked the filter behind the glove box? I had my glove box out this weekend for carputer and decided to find and check the filter. It was filthy. Full of leaves, dead bees, wasps and an untold amount of bugs. Once all shaken off, you saw a layer of dust. A few minutes with a vacuum cleaner got rid of this but the filter is so fine I suspect it is not of the cleanable type. Will see from Mr-T during the week how much a new one costs.

Not that, coming into winter (were we ever out?) a clean dust filter is top of my list in the UK Wink

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garystockton · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:07 Post subject:

We had an awful smell in the car when we first got it - that filter was full of leaves and other *beep*, ao I bought a decent new one and it's been great inside ever since. I'll find who I got mine from and let you know - was about £19.00 and a higher spec than the standard one - better filter spec for pollens etc.

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Crispin · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:28 Post subject:

please do. I did think the standard one was a bit course to stop actual dust.
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Boff · * Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 27 Location: Wrexham

I took my filter out the other day and it was a blue print one not from Mr T might be a bit cheaper.

Also stating the bleeding obvious making the filter tighter (smaller holes) will mean it will block a lot quicker so you will need to service it more regularly basically if you halve the hole diameters then it is going to block some thing like 4 times as fast

Nuclear Chicken · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 13:54 Post subject:

That's the air-con/ pollen filter. I replaced mine relatively recently and it was about £12 if I recall. Give it a vac if you're stuck but they're not cleanable elements really. Flimsy little blighter for the money.
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garystockton · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 21:09 Post subject:

I got mine from puravent - this is what I got, and it's been absolutely perfect:

Puravent

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Crispin · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 22:57 Post subject:

Thanks but why not the Mr-T one? You a sneezer? Wink

I have no complaints about mine. I don't "suffer" from hay fever and have yet to drive down a dusty dirt road and think "I wish I had a better filter".

I did call Mr-T but could not remember my reg plate. Without it the guy would not budge on tell me what they had. He did say it would be between £20-£30 though.
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garystockton · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 23:02 Post subject:

Mmm - junior is prone to getting asthma. And I thought 'If I'm going to pay £20 for a little bittty filter I may as well get the best one I can' and so far this one's done fine - Mr T's was more than the £20 I paid I think (and also my local didn't have and the one I ordered arrived next day delivery ...)
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Nuclear Chicken · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 16:11 Post subject:

Indeed, that Puravent job is about 1000000 times better than the Toyo replacement I fitted. Must get one! Nice one Gary. I do have hay fever but I'm not one bit convinced they make the slightest bit of defference to it anyway. I just want less dust in the LC, period.
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