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18:th-May-2016, 13:44:46
Neill,
On my car the air filter helps the car rev, it revs slightly quicker and you can hear it a little but when it comes to mpg it is very minimal if it does make any difference you might be looking at 0.1 mpg which could be achieved by driving slightly different.
If your like me and like to hear your engine then go for it but I will be honest and say if your not planning loads of mods to make it a race car then I would stick with the normal. I am planning to change my air filter from the Pipercross to a K&N Filter in the next month or so again this is more for research purpose to see but my car is petrol so it might help the diesel or it might not.
Maybe the filter combined with one of the tuning boxes might help but then the boxes are claiming to save you 1 ltr per 100 km (62 miles) but I would suspect that being the eco tune so no real performance gain. so I would say you would be looking to cover what you pay for the tuning in about 6 months to a year depending on mileage if it is the eco mode you are looking for.
The small miles I do it would be more like 18 months to 2 years before I would break even on a purchase but I'm not interested in getting back what I'm paying out.
My research is plainly for me to see what works and if the claims are true this way hopefully helping people to not waste money and know what works and what doesn't . It will also help me figure out how much money I wasted in my younger days lol.
On my car the air filter helps the car rev, it revs slightly quicker and you can hear it a little but when it comes to mpg it is very minimal if it does make any difference you might be looking at 0.1 mpg which could be achieved by driving slightly different.
If your like me and like to hear your engine then go for it but I will be honest and say if your not planning loads of mods to make it a race car then I would stick with the normal. I am planning to change my air filter from the Pipercross to a K&N Filter in the next month or so again this is more for research purpose to see but my car is petrol so it might help the diesel or it might not.
Maybe the filter combined with one of the tuning boxes might help but then the boxes are claiming to save you 1 ltr per 100 km (62 miles) but I would suspect that being the eco tune so no real performance gain. so I would say you would be looking to cover what you pay for the tuning in about 6 months to a year depending on mileage if it is the eco mode you are looking for.
The small miles I do it would be more like 18 months to 2 years before I would break even on a purchase but I'm not interested in getting back what I'm paying out.
My research is plainly for me to see what works and if the claims are true this way hopefully helping people to not waste money and know what works and what doesn't . It will also help me figure out how much money I wasted in my younger days lol.