'04 Focus-Lifetime air filter

[GarrettSocling]

Since everything is so off topic, I don't feel bad about posting this

I rented an automatic 2.2L Cobalt recently for a trip to southwest VA and back. The power looks better on paper than on the street...it actually had some pep from about 5k to redline, but the rest of the time it was a dog. Maybe a manual transmission would rectify some of that...

 

[sxg6]

I'm suprised we haven't seen any hondas with this long life air filter. They're all about low maintainence cars. Although... that has me worried a bit. I have a high amount of respect for honda and their engineers... And if they havent switched over to this yet, that makes me wonder how well it could work.

 

[Louis Zerr]

All damage done to my car is self inflicted (okay the guy that built my custom turbo kit blew it up not me directly).

AS far as the filters go, i have a Volant air intake(running NA'd prior to blasting a 1"X1.5" hole in transmission) and i have ran a Ractive short ram. with turbo i was running a MAC. The MAC compressed pretty hard due to the 30psi the turbo was pushing. That's right 30 psi was flowing into my car on the dyno, i had the tuner shut the car down at 4200 rpm where i hit 221whp and 252 lb-ft. scrared the crap outta me.

Mazdaspeed 3 here i come.

 

[XS650]

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Originally posted by sxg6:
I'm suprised we haven't seen any hondas with this long life air filter. They're all about low maintainence cars. Although... that has me worried a bit. I have a high amount of respect for honda and their engineers... And if they havent switched over to this yet, that makes me wonder how well it could work.

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I found out how the lifetime air filter deal works.

When you take your car in at 50,000 miles because it's running crappy and tell the service manager you think the air filter is bad, he does the following tests:

Pokes it with a stick. No reaction

Takes it off, puts it on the ground and gives it a push with his foot. No reaction

Calls a big old Labrador retriever over to sniff it. Lab looses interest and walks away.

Then he gives you that bad news. It's dead, so the lifetime warranty no longer applies.

You get a bill for $300.

1. New lifetime filter $148
2. Lab test $152

 

[dezurtrat]

Yea, I just bought a 2006 Ford Focus 2.0L. I made some inquiries.Here is what I found out about my filter:

2.0L Has No Serviceable Element At This Time, This Is A 150,000 Mile Filter.

PART: AIR FILTER OEM# 4S4Z9600AA $244.65

(Thanks to smj999smj over at Jonko)

 

[Louis Zerr]

$244.65!!! WOW!! You could drop a short ram intake on it and save $100.

 

[dezurtrat]

Yea, seems kinda' steep. Even a $10 paper filter changed every 10k miles only comes to $150 over a 150k miles.

Somehow I don't think that Focus filter will last 150k miles in the dusty Southwest where I live.

 

[Sid]

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Somehow I don't think that Focus filter will last 150k miles in the dusty Southwest where I live.

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Why's that?

 

[dezurtrat]

Well, that's good news! Maybe it will last!

 

[dezurtrat]

Well, coming from living in the Midwest to living in the Arizona desert, I can see how much quicker the air filters on my vehicles get dirty now filling up with desert sand. So I’m thinking it won’t last as long as it would in a less dirty environment.

 

[The Critic]

Well, if you've seen the SAE report, under worse case senario during field testing, the filter lasted about 150K.

 

[carock]

One comment I have is that it is not fair to compare company owned cars to privately owned cars. It is very obvious to me when servicing fleet cars that having multiple drivers ruins cars much faster than single driver cars. Why?

 

[oil pan 4]

Sounds like life time 100,000mi spark plugs.

 

[wagsg]

Originally posted by pzev:
[QB] They have been using it in all Duratec Foci since 2003.

The plural of Focus is Foci... that's hilarious!

Either I'm easily amused or it's time to call it a day and go home. I love BITOG!

 

[Hermann]

Either I'm easily amused or it's time to call it a day and go home. I love BITOG! [/QUOTE]


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