Hi folks

 

I’m new here and looking for a bit of advice. I’ve looked through the forum and couldn’t see any info on this (apologies if I missed it). I recently bought a ‘14 vrs tdi and I wanna put in a performance panel filter. I can get a pipercross one for £40, is a K&N one worth a few extra bucks? Or any other suggestions?

 

also are there any other low cost mods that I could do (baby on the way so don’t want to splash too much cash)

 

any help would be greatly appreciated

Buy a nice new, clean OEM paper filter. Save your extra bucks for petrol to enjoy driving. Even better get the baby something.

 

 

Edited 5 December, 20178 yr by CWARD

As above, it’ll make no difference on a diesel.

Cheers guys, I found a few threads on this after I posted, donno how I couldn’t find them earlier. They seem to agree with you, look like a waste of money unless there are a pile of supporting mods so I’ll give it a miss. Must look into a remap or tuning box instead

 

 

I’ve got a box you can buy;)

New, quality OEM paper filter is fine. 

 

IIRC, the book says change at 60,000km but I'd be inclined to halve that frequency.

ive changed the panel filter on the car. I'm now running an k&n air filter on the car. Also had it remapped not that long ago.

I have a bmc panel in my diesel and a remap to compliment it. 

You should stick to OEM filters. High flow filters work by allowing more air AND MUCK through the filter. Some allow particles big enough to damage the turbo blades over time.