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Might wanna get an 8th month old filter for my ride.

How often do I need to clean this filter?

Any other advise on cleaning this thing?

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Think for K&N, there is a sticker which states 'No need cleaning for 50,000 miles' if i did not remember wrongly but who will wait til 50,000 miles then clean their air filter one [jawdrop] IMHO, every 10,000km clean once will be fine [nod] but remember not to oil too much on the filter after cleaning as some people said that if it is not dry thoroughly will damage the air flow sensor [sweatdrop]

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any brother has excess oil for K&N that will like to share?

Can pay you a bit for it.

I am gonna get an 8 mth old K&N filter. Don't think a car in Spore can go even 5K km/mth.

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K&N filters uses bed filtration. The more dirt that gets stuck into it, the better the filtration because it is the dirt that catches the dirt. sweatdrop.gif Yes, it is true. Bed filtration is used in many industrial applications but K&N's version is extreme because in the first few hunder or more k of mileage, dirt still continues to go into the intake. Just take a clean K&N filter and see into the light. There are more than enough holes for an elephant to pass through.

 

I would suggest you do what one user here does, install and forget. smile.gif

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great!! yes i am using k&n filter...

 

u can purchase abt $20 from online auction...not sure still have or not...u can check it outwink.gif

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SG has too much dirt in the air. Better filtration is better than high flow. Anyway, the flow through a K&N is already quite OK.

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check liaoz...

no more. [:/]

Anyway, a member at SCS offered me $40 for an 8 mth old one.

Guess I will take that.

 

Xtraun, you have the recharger kit?

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I'm not on K&N now so can't help you on this [:)] but the cleaning kit which consists of the washing solution & oil will cost you about 20 plus bucks as i have bought it before for my previous ride in 1999 [:p]

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Supersonic

nowadays u can get a new one for abt $70 from Speedworks. i'd recommend that instead of potentially over cleaning or over-oiling it and screwing up yr engine.

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wah.. thanks for the clarifications, man.

 

i thot it will be good to take out the filter every week when i do W&W. i sure "beat" the filter against the floor to take out any foreigh objects and wipe clean the filter. perhaps can air-blow the filter or wipe clean the filter which i notice is quite dirty to the touch. [:p]

 

other than tt, it sure save me some $$$ instead of changing every 10k for abt $5.00 each. [laugh][laugh]

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