<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>In my Frontier the cabin filter is inhabited by mice every winter and the acorns and nut they store fall down into the fan as they wear through the filter element, so not only does the filter do nothing I’ve got the loudest ventilating fan in town.  I think that this spring I’ll remove the fan, clean it and not install the cabin filter.  Inhaling mouse drippings can’t be good.<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>Best,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>Bob<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 8, 2019, at 11:57 PM, Jimmie Mayfield via Shop-talk <<a href="mailto:shop-talk@autox.team.net" class="">shop-talk@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
  
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I've found leaf fragments and an
      occasional dead bug on the intake side of my filter.  I'd think at
      minimum you'd probably want some kind of screen mesh in place to
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/8/19 2:29 PM, eric--- via
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      <font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">OK, so my Ford Explorer is due
        for a new
        'cabin air filter.'</font>
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      <font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">It's $14 bucks, so I got it.  But
        my question is, do you really need them?  Can I just remove it
        and
        leave it out?  I'm not allergic nor am I needing to have
        'filtered'
        air.  In fact, I think the whole idea of them is insane.  But
        is there anything it is protecting?  </font>
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      <font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="">Thanks in advance!</font>
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        Sent from my Commodore 64 on a 2400 Baud Modem.<br class="">
        Tech Viper<br class="">
        "Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a
        rational
        being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory."
        Ralph
        Waldo Emerson <br class="">
        -Who is John Galt?</font>
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