Would you change this air filter?

Olwas2014 · 20-11-2020 2:23pm #1

I have a second hand 06 car with 75,000 km on the clock (now 76680 km and I don’t know if the air filter was changed at the interval it was supposed to be changed at so I took it out and had a look. It’s fairly black and dust came out of onto the floor when I have it a shake. I forgot to take a picture of the bottom before putting it back in to the car!

Thank you

https://imgur.com/a/khr3oZF

Pkiernan · 20-11-2020 2:51pm

Olwas2014 wrote: »

I have a second hand 06 car with 75,000 km on the clock (now 76680 km and I don’t know if the air filter was changed at the interval it was supposed to be changed at so I took it out and had a look. It’s fairly black and dust came out of onto the floor when I have it a shake. I forgot to take a picture of the bottom before putting it back in to the car!

Thank you

https://imgur.com/a/khr3oZF

Yes.

colm_mcm · 20-11-2020 3:14pm

Can’t see the dirty side, but filters are cheap so do it.

Miscreant · 20-11-2020 5:09pm

Yes, I change mine every year, regardless of mileage.... Shouldn't be too expensive and it is an easy install.

Toyotafanboi · 20-11-2020 6:13pm

Yeah, that's the clean side. Show us the other side. Looks used but not terrible. Are you trying to fault find something?

Olwas2014 · 20-11-2020 9:38pm

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Yeah, that's the clean side. Show us the other side. Looks used but not terrible. Are you trying to fault find something?

Thinking it might be causing sluggish acceleration in higher gears in particular but I could be overthinking that, it is a suzuki swift after all and probably just have to work the gears more! Sluggish as in I could be cruising along and the car gradually starts losing speed uphill and regains once the hill levels out no matter how much I put my foot down in fifth gear from cruising in fifth gear on the flat and I'm not talking the Conor pass just an uphill in the road. It's not a slipping clutch as the revs dont increase as the speed drops

Cee-Jay-Cee · 20-11-2020 9:58pm

Olwas2014 wrote: »

Thinking it might be causing sluggish acceleration in higher gears in particular but I could be overthinking that, it is a suzuki swift after all and probably just have to work the gears more! Sluggish as in I could be cruising along and the car gradually starts losing speed uphill and regains once the hill levels out no matter how much I put my foot down in fifth gear from cruising in fifth gear on the flat and I'm not talking the Conor pass just an uphill in the road. It's not a slipping clutch as the revs dont increase as the speed drops

That’s just a symptom of a low power engine and not the air filter however like others have said air filters are dirt cheap so replace it every service/year.