12/28 How often should I change the air filter on my car? Thanks.
\_ This should be in your manual. Call the dealer if you don't have
one.
\_ Every 30k miles or so, but it varies a lot with driving conditions
such as dusty roads, SoCal smog, and the like.
\_ 30k miles a about a quarter of the average life of a car.
Eveery 3k seems more reasonable.
\_ There's only one way to filter the air with your car: DON'T DRIVE!
\_ Kinda ironic that the same filthy air that your car creates
needs to be filtered for your car to run smoothly.
\_ It isn't ironic. You can't survive breathing the same air you
exhale any better than a car can. Stop trying to be deep and
Politically Correct. Go wear a black turtle neck and down a
few triple mocha espresso lattes south side if you're feeling
clever or superior. Come back when you're done.
\_ Uh oh, the anti-auto "My only tool is a hammer" geniuses got
out of their cages again. While you're ragging on cars, let's
talk about the amount of perfectly good water the chip industry
spoils in their chip fabs. Let's all stop using computers. Do
you read the newspaper? Any clue how many trees that kills?
Eat meat? Slash'n'burn in S.America plus insane over crowding
in chicken boxes in the US. Are you veggie/vegan? Where do you
think all the funky veggie foods come from? They get shipped in
by some oil burning ocean going tranport. What went into the
production of that transport and the trucks that carried the
food from there to the store? Clue time people: ALL human
activity is destructive to the environment. Stop fooling
yourselves. The _only_ way to stop breaking the planet is to
leave it (or just kill everyone off quietly).
\_ Your argument is short of idiotic, sorry to say. The goal
of public policy is to limit things that are enivronmentally
distructive. Chip fabs spoil about 0.0000...001% of all
the water in this world which is a miniscule amount whereas
automobiles emits millions of pounds of waste and toxins
every year. No one ever said we should wipe cars off the
face of this earth but to limit the amount of emissions by
mass transportation, car pools, ev's, bicycle, hybrid cars,
cleaner burning cars, etc...
\_ I check it periodically (often when I change oil) and if it
looks overly dirty then I change it. Works better than some
arbitrary number of miles. --dim |
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