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Originally Posted by gpsman1
Salsbr, It is hard for me to belive you got a check engine light for the battery air filter. In fact, I think this is impossible. If you got a check engine light, something else was wrong, and this was a coincidence.
This air filter is not a mission critical part. You could probably drive 100,000 miles without a filter and be fine, or drive 100,000 miles with a dirty filter and be fine, just neither case is ideal.
-John
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It may be hard to believe, but that's exactly what happened. I took it to a dealer, they scanned for codes, looked at random stuff, swapped out the filter, and charged me $150. Since the filter was supposed to be part of the previous service I promptly called up the other dealer and demanded that they pay for everything but the filter. I got my money.
I have no trouble believing that you could simply wash the filter, or even remove it. But letting it go too long will cause the little orange light on your dash to come on. My understanding is that with a plugged filter, the batteries cannot be cooled like they should be. And that is a mission critical system. Or at least one worthy of nagging the driver about.
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