Charcoal Pollen Filters
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Charcoal Pollen Filters
Eurocar parts has a bit of a sale on, and i ordered up everything to service the 406 for £30 including the oil, one of the things ordered was a pollen filter, there was an ordinary type available for £4 which i bought, but a carbon one is £14, is there any advantage to having a carbon one?
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FWIW, I know that charcoal filters will clean most chemicals out of water, maybe they help keep CO and CO2 levels down inside the car?
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Carbon filtering must be very effective, the NBC suits we used to have in the army had a charcoal impregnated fabric
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The Volvo's cabin filter is a Carbon one and I have to say the interior has always stayed very fresh to be fair. They call it an 'active' multi filter, it's electrostatically charged and impregnated with active carbon.
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Extract from Baldwin Filters website:
The charcoal in the filters is treated with chemicals and heat to give it specific odor-control properties. Charcoal traps odor-
causing gases by adsorption (not absorption), and therefore holds the gases on the surface of the charcoal treated media.
Because charcoal is porous, the filter has a very high capacity for trapping noxious gases.
Other sites I have looked at include that they keep out odours from sewage farms, bonfires and hot tarmac. As I drive round the M25 past the sewage farm between Heathrow and Chertsey, i may well invest in one now.
The charcoal in the filters is treated with chemicals and heat to give it specific odor-control properties. Charcoal traps odor-
causing gases by adsorption (not absorption), and therefore holds the gases on the surface of the charcoal treated media.
Because charcoal is porous, the filter has a very high capacity for trapping noxious gases.
Other sites I have looked at include that they keep out odours from sewage farms, bonfires and hot tarmac. As I drive round the M25 past the sewage farm between Heathrow and Chertsey, i may well invest in one now.
1998 2.1 GLX TD
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The only issue with carbon is its finite life when I worked in a composite workshop we had to change our respirator filters monthly due to the high levels of airborne pollution but if you left the filter on a side it would only be 3months before it was ineffective anyway.
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There's plenty of noxious gasses in my cabin of a morning.....
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Gandhi's revenge?
My 407 also has the carbon cabin filter... so does my kitchen extractor hood...
My 407 also has the carbon cabin filter... so does my kitchen extractor hood...
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