Do you know what an air filter is

An air filter is a device for purifying the air. Dust, sand and various impurities in the air will accelerate the engine wear if they directly enter the engine cylinder combustion, thus reducing the service life of the engine and even causing serious damage to the engine.

The position of the air filter in the car is generally behind the front intake grille. You can check the air filter by yourself when you use the car. If you find it dirty, you can clean it or change it by yourself.

Air filter classification

Air filter is divided into dry type and wet type, dry type is commonly used on car models, its material is filter paper or non-woven cloth. In order to increase the area of air passing through, many small folds are produced in most filter elements. When the filter is slightly stained, the compressed air can be used to blow clean. When the filter is seriously stained, the new core should be replaced in time. In general, the air filter does not have an accurate replacement time, it is based on the vehicle use of the environment to determine, the specific need to see the vehicle maintenance manual.

Problems with changing air filters from time to time

If the filter is blocked seriously, the intake resistance will increase and the engine power will decrease. At the same time, due to the increase in air resistance, will also let the driving computer judge the increase in the amount of gasoline sucked in, resulting in the mixture ratio is too thick, so that the engine running state is poor, increase in fuel consumption, also easy to produce carbon.

Consequences of using a substandard air filter of poor quality

Qualified air filter air inflow can ensure that the engine work is needed, at the same time can filter out the foreign body in the air, and inferior filter due to the use of materials of poor quality will cause the volume is too large or too small, and even less than filtering effect, directly to the environment in the foreign body into the engine makes the engine have serious wear and tear.

In addition, the service life of the poor quality air filter is also very low, it will be very dirty after using a few hundred kilometers and the poor quality filter will increase the intake resistance and reduce the engine power. Or increase fuel consumption, and very easy to produce carbon.