Green Filters

[mhill]

About to order a Green Panel Filter for my FR but just throughly confused my self looking at there website. FIrstly the price difference between a filter for a Ibiza TDI PD160 & a Fabia TDI PD130 for what is apparently the same filter part number a P950337. Then Secondly the apparent size difference all the dimensions are the same bar the dimension D4 which on the PD 160 is apparently 121 opposed to 130 on on the PD 130. Then there is the price difference £35.25 for the PD 130 vs £41.71 for the PD 160

Now the easy answer is go an measure mine you say....

My dimensions are the same bar D2 which = 205 & D4 which =125


anyone...........

 

[sydoggkdy]

i wondered that too so i emailed them and the guy said...

"Its the same filter so buy the cheaper one. Thanks "

so i was just gonna buy the one for the fabia because the man said too lol.

si

 

[Altech]

My Green filter is for a Fabia and fits fine

 

[Aimez]

Does anyone know how ofton you clean them and how you clean them. Mine has been on the car a year and not touched ?(partly cos of the strut brace in the way!)

 

[Altech]

I cleaned mine a few weeks ago. I just hoovered it to get rid of the loose dirt (loads of wasps n bugs!) and then washed it in warm water. It should be cleaned every service, but it won't hurt to do it as often as you can.

 

[Aimez]

Do you have to buy oil stuff to spray on it, I had a piper X indduciton cone on my fiesta and you had to clean it then spray oil stuff on it?

 

[Altech]

I don't think Green filters need to be oiled. I'm sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong..

 

[digby130?]

i bought the pd160 one a couple of months ago...defo shudda done my homework and saved a couple of quid!!!

 

[st10587]

i fitted my fabia filter yest..............i got it as same part number and its cheaper

 

[Aimez]

I don't think Green filters need to be oiled. I'm sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong..

I thought I once heard soemone mentions a cleaning kit you can buy, it may be me but it felt oiled when it was new. Anyone know?

 

[sydoggkdy]

i thought u did have to clean them, because the sell air filter cleaning and oil kits on the site you buy them from!! nobody read the instructions on the box LOL

si

 

[Nath.]

Yes they can be cleaned and re-oiled, I checked mine last week and it was still looking fine, the filter has only done 10k miles so far

 

[Aimez]

My filter has only done 5k if that since I put it in over a year ago is it worth me buying a cleaning kit for it? I don't remeber there being any instructions with it on when to clean it tbh?!

 

[Leigh15]

5k in over a year!?!

Bloody hell - I do that in 2.5 months!

Surely it's not cost effective to be running the diesel with that sort of mileage?

 

[Aimez]

Well will be a year in January so not yet but that's cos I now work down the road I used to drive up the motorway everyday until I got a job down the road. Dunno if that mileage is right that's what it seems to be if I look at the mileage from my last service. I live in the middle on nowhere so have to drive even short distances alot.

 

[mhill]

Im in pretty much the same situation had mine since March and only done 5k, think is i proffer the way diesels drive

 

[kriso]

You can get the cleaning kits+oil from the green filters web site. I cleaned mine after 6 months or so and loads of black dirt and flies came out. I didn't notice a difference when driving the car tho.

 

[Aimez]

Okay may buy a cleaning kit when it has its service in January, I'll get the garage to do it as they can take the strut brace off!

 

[Nath.]

because of the higher compression ratio a diesel engine sucks much more than a petrol. It's filter will dirty up quicker as a result. It also blows harder through the exhaust too

 

[kriso]

Mine was in my diesel Cupra for a few thousand miles before I saw sense and got a petrol, so that probably accounts for most of the dirt There was a lot....the water in the sink literally turned black.