K&N Filters

[1stToyota]

Originally Posted by b_hickman11

They have a link on their Homepage to find out the HP gains. That sounds honest to me. You had to go through several pages to get to “Buy Now.” Maybe their webmaster thought people were smarter than that, but I guess not.

You are on a Yaris web site talking about how bad they are for the Yaris. So I would say that you are making a claim!

And if you want some pics, then here you go!

The first pic is of my carbon trap on the wife's 07 with 36,000 miles with a K&N. If you notice, it is still completely white, just like when it came over on the boat. My 08 with 24,000 miles with a K&N is still white too!

The second and third pics are of the intake. Our intakes are not design like those on a high performance race car, as you probably already know. They are not designed to have air forced into the system. Rather it is design to suck in fresh air that is coming from around the headlight. So there is not even enough air stream to push oil up into the air. And I'm sure you know how gravity works....so if the filter does get over oiled, it will drain down into the bottom of the air box while the car is at rest. So maybe your other vehicles you have tested a K&N filter on had a poor design of an intake or maybe you had one of those system where you wanted to force every bit of air you could possibly get in.

No, not too honest when you consider what's written on every single filter box they stick a filter in, not honest at all.

Show me where I said it's bad for the Yaris. Never said that, not once. I'm trying to get you to just explain what they mean by making so-called increased performance claims on the Yaris box and the Yaris *buy me now* link from K&N's site.

And thanks for chosing me to devote your attention to when others are saying things against K&N on this thread.

Guess you can't comprehend the velocity of the airflow @ WOT

I don't know...doesn't appear that the dust problem is quite as scarey as you made it out to be. A paper filter would probably last longer than 1 month, like you claimed, and could probably be just shaken out & with a little bit of low pressure shop air applied could be put back in service just as easy as the K&N.