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From: Robert on 17 Jun 2010 10:14
Hello,

I see that you can buy cabin filters with carbon and cabin filters
without carbon. Is it that the carbon removes smells? Is there any
other advantage? Can you fit either depending whether you want to
spend more on the carbon one or save some money and get one without,
or do certain cars require one or the other?

Thanks.
From: Conor on 17 Jun 2010 11:06
On 17/06/2010 15:14, Robert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I see that you can buy cabin filters with carbon and cabin filters
> without carbon. Is it that the carbon removes smells? Is there any
> other advantage? Can you fit either depending whether you want to
> spend more on the carbon one or save some money and get one without,
> or do certain cars require one or the other?
>

You're correct in your assumption of what they do and interchangeability.

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Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
From: DavidR on 19 Jun 2010 10:33
"Robert" <robert(a)locumpoint.com> wrote
>
> I see that you can buy cabin filters with carbon and cabin filters
> without carbon. Is it that the carbon removes smells?

What kind of smells do you want to remove? Bear in mind that the worst
smells develop on the aircon heat exchanger and the cabin filter is in the
wrong place to do anything about it.

> Is there any other advantage?

Buying a carbon one is definitely an advantage to the manufacturer.

> Can you fit either depending whether you want to
> spend more on the carbon one or save some money and get one without,
> or do certain cars require one or the other?

Is a filter even necessary? Once upon a time nobody bothered.


From: DavidR on 19 Jun 2010 17:07
"Pete M" <pete.murray(a)SPAMFREEblueyonder.co.uk> wrote
> DavidR wrote:
>> "Robert" <robert(a)locumpoint.com> wrote
>>> I see that you can buy cabin filters with carbon and cabin filters
>>> without carbon. Is it that the carbon removes smells?
>>
>> What kind of smells do you want to remove? Bear in mind that the worst
>> smells develop on the aircon heat exchanger and the cabin filter is in
>> the wrong place to do anything about it.
>
> Ah, that only happens if you're daft enough to buy a car fitted with AC
> and then not use the AC

Is it an option?

> If you run the a/c regularly you don't get the nasty smells.

Please explain your reasoning.

> If you don't use your A/C, then you're going to get a far bigger bill from
> fixing it than you ever would from using it.

If you think someone is "daft" not to use it, wouldn't you consider them
even dafter if they went and fixed it when it broke?


From: Clot on 19 Jun 2010 21:57
DavidR wrote:
> "Pete M" <pete.murray(a)SPAMFREEblueyonder.co.uk> wrote
>> DavidR wrote:
>>> "Robert" <robert(a)locumpoint.com> wrote
>>>> I see that you can buy cabin filters with carbon and cabin filters
>>>> without carbon. Is it that the carbon removes smells?
>>>
>>> What kind of smells do you want to remove? Bear in mind that the
>>> worst smells develop on the aircon heat exchanger and the cabin
>>> filter is in the wrong place to do anything about it.
>>
>> Ah, that only happens if you're daft enough to buy a car fitted with
>> AC and then not use the AC
>
> Is it an option?
>
>> If you run the a/c regularly you don't get the nasty smells.
>
> Please explain your reasoning.
>
>> If you don't use your A/C, then you're going to get a far bigger
>> bill from fixing it than you ever would from using it.
>
> If you think someone is "daft" not to use it, wouldn't you consider
> them even dafter if they went and fixed it when it broke?

True!


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