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#1 (**permalink**) 03 Nov 2005, 06:00 pm

Just when it is time for me to change the cabin pollen filter of my 2002
Accord, I am wondering if having a pollen filter really necessary. I
usually drive with my sunroof open anyways. I am just thinking of replacing
the filter elements with a furnace filter material just to filter off dust.
This would be a $40 savings up in Canada. Airflow would also be better.
Any opinion?

#2 (**permalink**) 03 Nov 2005, 06:15 pm

In article <SDwaf.401373$tl2.229712@pd7tw3no>,
"Shaw news" <NOSPAMddlee10@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Just when it is time for me to change the cabin pollen filter of my 2002
> Accord, I am wondering if having a pollen filter really necessary. I
> usually drive with my sunroof open anyways. I am just thinking of replacing
> the filter elements with a furnace filter material just to filter off dust.
> This would be a $40 savings up in Canada. Airflow would also be better.
> Any opinion?

Just get in there and yank it out, and leave it.

We drove for many, many years and billions of miles without them. No
harm. They're just a checkmark on a marketing person's list--"look, we
have that too".

#3 (**permalink**) 04 Nov 2005, 12:32 am

Shaw news wrote:
> Just when it is time for me to change the cabin pollen filter of my 2002
> Accord, I am wondering if having a pollen filter really necessary. I
> usually drive with my sunroof open anyways. I am just thinking of replacing
> the filter elements with a furnace filter material just to filter off dust.
> This would be a $40 savings up in Canada. Airflow would also be better.
> Any opinion?
>
>
could just leave the filter out. older cars have no filter at all and
heat/cool just fine.

#4 (**permalink**) 04 Nov 2005, 02:17 am

Shaw news <NOSPAMddlee10@hotmail.com> wrote in
rec.autos.makers.honda:

> Just when it is time for me to change the cabin pollen filter of
> my 2002 Accord, I am wondering if having a pollen filter really
> necessary. I usually drive with my sunroof open anyways. I am
> just thinking of replacing the filter elements with a furnace
> filter material just to filter off dust. This would be a $40
> savings up in Canada. Airflow would also be better. Any opinion?
>
>
>

If you're sensitive and have allergies, by all means change the filter.
But if you're prone to driving with the roof open, as they say in
Jersey, fohgetabou'it.

--
Brandy**Alexandre®
http://www.swydm.com/?refer=BrandyAlx
Well, would you?

#5 (**permalink**) 14 Dec 2005, 03:51 pm

Shaw news wrote:
> Just when it is time for me to change the cabin pollen filter of my 2002
> Accord, I am wondering if having a pollen filter really necessary. I
> usually drive with my sunroof open anyways. I am just thinking of replacing
> the filter elements with a furnace filter material just to filter off dust.
> This would be a $40 savings up in Canada. Airflow would also be better.
> Any opinion?
>
>
I would be concerned that if you just leave the filter in (and use the
ac or heater) it would eventually get clogged. Could be a lot of hard
work on the motor and the evaporator coils might not get enough air flow.

As long as there is decent air flow, no real worry though.

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