Stop Breathing Dirty Air, Today! Upgrade Your Cabin Air Filter to a Washable One

26 Apr 2017

Do you find yourself wishing you had a gas mask when you turn your A/C on in your car?

It’s no secret that OE vehicle manufacturers are making their cars better than ever before. This is especially true on the muscle car side. From styling to power and even weight reduction, the cars now are far more advanced than the muscle cars of the ’60s and ’70s. But even OEMs are constrained by engineering, budget, and production limits. Because of this, the filters they choose for the engine and cabin are typically mass produced, paper filters. These paper filters adequately clean the air, however they are typically a one-time use product. When they are dirty, you throw them away and buy another one. This inefficient cycle is not only a waste of money, but it is adding to our overflowing landfills.

Recently, companies have begun making high quality, washable cabin air filters as replacements for the paper air filters that come in most vehicles nowadays. One of those companies is K&N Engineering. They have been manufacturing engine air filters for decades and are one of the leaders in automotive filtration. So to hear that they are coming out with a washable cabin air filter, you can bet we were definitely intrigued.

K&N cabin air filters install easily in the housing and feature an OE level of fitment

To understand the benefits of K&N’s line of cabin air filters, we should take a look at how cabin air filters benefit us and why more and more manufacturers are adding them in vehicles. Air is taken in by the a/c system in your car in one of two ways. It is either routed in from outside, or inside air is just recirculated around the vehicle. What a cabin air filter does is help to stop the dirt, dust, pollen, mold, spores, fungus, and germs that are in the air we breathe. The factory filter does a good job at this, but as we said before, once it fills up with contaminants you have to throw it away and buy another one.

Compared to paper cabin air filters, K&N cabin air filters are much sturdier and guaranteed to last

Another problem is that many people forget to change their cabin air filter. A dirty cabin air filter can inadvertently let potentially harmful contaminants into the cabin of your vehicle. Have you ever turned your air conditioning on and encountered a foul smelling odor coming from the vents? That could be the sign of a dirty cabin air filter. K&N cabin air filters are made of an advanced non-woven synthetic filter media. The material has been treated with a special refresher spray that helps make the filter electrostatically charged. This electrostatic ability helps grab and hold onto particles as they enter the cab of your car. It also helps freshen the incoming air so you don’t have to worry about those funky smells.

When it comes time to clean the filter, it is as simple as spraying it with the K&N cabin air filter cleaner and rinsing it with water. Then simply spray the filter with the refresher spray and reinstall. K&N guarantees that their cabin air filters will last with a 10-Year/100,000 Mile Limited Warranty. If you want to give you’re a/c system a boost of freshness, go to Knfilters.com and check out their cabin air filter line. While you are there, use their application search tool to find all of the products they make for your muscle car or any other vehicle you own.