It is easy to miss the moment when the air filter in your car needs to be replaced. Many users delay the replacement until the filter is completely clogged with such impurities as dust, soot or organic residue.

 

 

If this happens, the car stops running properly. Insufficient air volume means disproportional composition of the air and fuel mixture in the combustion chamber, the vehicle loses its power, fuel not completely oxidised,  is excessively consumed, while black smoke is visible from the exhaust pipe.

The above effects are of lesser danger compared to those what may happen to the driver.

The application of low quality filters or delaying their replacement may result in accelerated wear of the engine or even its sudden failure. The components particularly prone to damage due to the particles of impurities flowing through the filter are as follows: cylinder walls, pistons, piston rings and the airflow meter.

 

The heavy-duty air filters are characterised by the optimally selected parameters: capacity (that is the amount of impurities the filter can filter and collect in its life cycle), effectiveness that is micron measured size of impurities filtered and resisted - too high parameters result in insufficient amount of air in the engine.

 

We can name many different types of air filters - the most popular of them are panel air filters, circular and cone air filters. Irrespectively of their type, all of them share one feature - to properly protect the vehicle engine, they must be manufactured out of top quality materials and in the latest technologies.

Buying WIX brand filters you are guaranteed to have bought the right solution.

 

Do you know that?

For the oxidation of 1 litre of fuel as many as 10 000 litres of air are needed?