Need 1 Favor: Picture(s) of used(replaced) air filters

[Andrei Rinea]

I live in quite a dusty city. The manual says replace the filter at 30.000 (18.600 miles) km but I took a peek at the filter at 10.000 km (6.200 miles) and I was kinda shocked.... I don't know how should a worn-out filter look so that is my request to you:

Could you send/post picture(s) of replaced filters to see how they look AND after how many miles they were replaced. I try to determine an optimum interval to replace mine depending on these conditions over here.... but I need to know when it is time to replace it ...

tNX! ;-)

 

[kwhiner]

You might take a look back to mid-november in the West Coast GTG forum. Believe it was Norman or Hank that posted pics of the filter that came out of my car after 20k mi or about 30k km. It was a mess putting it mercifully. I live in the Reno-Sparks area of Nevada USA and like your area is very dusty. Altitude is 4600ft and low humidity all year round, edge of the desert.

 

[Andrei Rinea]

Originally posted by kwhiner:
You might take a look back to mid-november in the West Coast GTG forum. Believe it was Norman or Hank that posted pics of the filter that came out of my car after 20k mi or about 30k km. It was a mess putting it mercifully.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sooooooooooooo, in other words you underline my bet that 30.000 km is way too much of a replacement interval right?