Don't overlook the usual stuff

[VRS_White_Hatch]

Just a quicky - something we all know, but somehow I've overlooked the obvious for a while.

 

I noticed my aircon getting weaker for a while, thought it may need a regass or something. Anyway today I got round to changing my cabin filter - I "left if for later" some months ago when I did the service and ran out of time. Guess what? Air flow much improved and air con icy cold again. Ok I admit to having only previously vac'd the pollen filter, so its been in for 25,500 miles. But I have done this so all of you lovely Skoda owners now know that yes, you really should change your cabin filter every 2 years / 20,000 miles at the most.

Edited 22 August, 2022 by VRS_White_Hatch

[fr1nklyn]

Isn’t it 1 year/12k miles? I am not saying that’s what Skoda recommends, but what air filter manufacturers put as change intervals? I’m pretty sure that’s what I read on Mann’s packaging last time I changed mine.

[Ootohere]

2 years / 20,000 mil with Skoda UK,  that used to be at a Major Service when it was Minor / Major Servicing Fixed or Major / Major Variable.

 

[MarkyG82]

I change air filter annually and pollen filter biannually.

[VRS_White_Hatch]

I think quite a lot of us might have reduced this over lockdown 2 yrs when many cars sat on drives and did much reduced mileage, I did not neglect oil changes, just that the pollen filter still looked new first time I removed it so just a quick vac and back in it went .... then suddenly 2 yrs had flown by ... 

 

I would normally do it every other service honest!!

[Ootohere]

A shake and vac and a clean and disinfect around the filter area is often all that is needed.  If the filter is dry.     I get annoyed where a filter is just replaced and no cleaning carried out where it is so the stour is just as it was. 

[VRS_White_Hatch]

Yeah Root - that's what I say - when I do stuff myself there lots of things a garage wouldn't do. 

[MarkyG82]

A little ashamed to admit that I have never cleaned the space a filter would go apart from a quick vacuum. What do you use to clean the filter housing? A spritz of Dettol or something a bit more involved?

[Ootohere]

Anything of that sort.