P38 Pollen filter

Hello friends

Off to France early tomorrow morning. Just doing last minute checks. Everything seems ok untill checked pollen filter - completely bunged up with leaves and debris. Obviously not been changed for ages - so much for service!). Why didn't I look before??!!

Too late to do anything now ( and ferry won't wait!) Can I clean it or is it best to leave it out?

Quick advice please - Thanks

i did the same yesterday, clean out with hoover, you may need a small nozzel on the hoover to reach far inside near the fans.. I taped a slim bit if tubing in the slim oart of the nozzel on the hoover to get further reach... Then hoover the filters clean in low power, good luck

Thanks for that Paul, but not sure we are talking about the same thing?

On my P38 the pollen filter is removable. In engine compartment passenger side bulkhead just below windscreen. You remove screws and pull filter out.

Or is there another filter somwhere?

Have hoovered the gauze stuff but doesn't seem much different will this be ok or should I leave filter out?

Anybody advise please?

Thanks

There’s one on each side just hover it off to get the worst of it off, and put them back in, buy the replacements off ebay a lot cheaper that way, its no biggi to leave them dirty for a while, just do it when you get back, it should still keep the smell of onions and garlic from entering the car (and cheep plonk)

In the short term, it's no problem to leave them out. Better to have full air flow than no air flow because they are blocked. At a push, you could aways blow them out with an air line in the reverse flow direction, but for the sake of a couple of weeks, unless someone is a hay fever sufferer, leaving them out is better. Highly unlikely that any solids (Leaves etc.) have got past the filters...that's what they are there for.

deffo clean both sides, and put in, check inside the compartment, that no large bits are in there, as some fell in as i pulled the filter out

Thanks for all the help. I never knew (or noticed) there were two filters.

Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye......

Bon Voyage...stay safe.