3 Benefits of Replacing Your Car Air Filter

Your car’s engine requires a huge amount of air. The air mixes with the fuel in the combustion chamber and when the mix is ignited by the spark plugs, the resulting controlled series of explosions allows your car to move. For combustion to work efficiently, the air that reaches your engine must be free from dirt and debris, and your car air filter ensures the air is cleaned. When the filter starts to wear, your Hyundai dealer can replace it.

3 Benefits of Replacing Your Car Air Filter By Your Hyundai Dealer

Increased Gas Mileage

Your air filter should trap pollen, dirt, and other debris and prevent them from reaching your engine. When your air filter is dirty or damaged, it prevents enough fresh air from reaching the combustion chamber. When you put your foot on the gas, fuel enters the combustion chamber and mixes with the air. For your engine to operate efficiently, you need a ratio of 14:1 air to fuel.

If there isn’t enough air for proper combustion, the excess fuel won’t burn. This unburnt fuel is wasted as it’s forced out of your exhaust. When your air filter is replaced, the new filter will allow enough clean air into your engine to raise the air to fuel ratio to its normal level. Your engine will use less gas, and you’ll easily see this when you need fewer trips to the gas station to fill up.

Smooth Idling Again

When your air filter is dirty, your car’s idling will be rougher than it should be. You’ll also hear strange sipping or coughing sounds from the engine. These strange effects are caused by a poor air to fuel mix. As mentioned above, a lack of fresh air in the engine causes wasted fuel but also damages the spark plugs. The fuel-rich environment causes the fuel used to burn badly and your spark plugs become coated with a sticky black patina.

Damaged spark plugs don’t fire correctly, and this causes rough idling, and the odd sounds are made by the lack of air in your engine. When we replace your air filter, we would also replace your spark plugs. The new spark plugs will cause your engine to fire correctly, and your engine will idle smoothly and quietly again.

Fuel Smell Will Disappear

The fuel-rich mixture in the combustion chamber due to a dirty air filter will lead to some of the vapor escaping. This escaped vapor has a strong smell of fuel. In addition, the unburnt fuel forced out of the exhaust also adds to the fuel odor.

When your air filter is replaced, the new filter will allow the air to fuel ratio to return to normal, and this will eliminate the heady fuel smell.

There are numerous benefits to replacing a dirty air filter. An air filter is cheap and our technicians can fit the replacement very quickly. Call our service center today at Crain Hyundai of Fayetteville and we’ll fit your new filter right away.

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