BowTied
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Plus I don't want to have to service the filter all the time for fear of mold and crap collecting blocking off air flow. If I had filters I'd likely remove them.
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Sure evap failures happen all the time, not saying they never fail - I am saying failure due to small stones coming through the cowl are not common. If that was the case, fine cowl screens and other protective measures would have been common in the 60s and 70s.
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Air condition in cars has been around for decades, it is not a recent development. Nor is cowl screens recent. The common use of cabin filters is recent. Failures of the evaporators prior to that are not common. So I am not sure I see the relevance of your post.
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Your previous experience was probably a fluke. Cars have been made for several decades with course or no cowl screen at all and no HVAC filters. HVAC filters being common is a very recent development in the history of automobiles.
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The R50 already has the finer cowl screen though.
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Oh well, if the early WD21s have that as a common failure mode by all means WD21 owners should get an upgraded cowl screen or see if they can retrofit a filter. Most R50 owners don't report this as an issue that I have heard about.
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Welcome, I'll look for ya on the other board too.
+1 for Morpheus (Mike) @ Milton Nissan.
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I bet your right about that, there'd be a small amount of crap in there after years of use. And I bet that is the case for millions of vehicles on the road without HVAC filters. Doesn't make it a typical failure mode.
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Tons of trees where I live - hell my city is called the forest city there are so many trees. I am not aware of this being any broad reaching issue.
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OP - any updates?
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There is a correlation to geograhpical region and failed evaporators? Explain please.
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So what did you trade it for?
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Welcome!!
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Meh, lasted this long without it and lots of guys have lots more miles than I have with out issue.
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You posted again while I was typing, you are fast!!
Still, NOT getting a filter.
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LOL I posted not seeing your response. Ya, as I said I know where the filter goes, just never thought about the air flow direction.
I wouldn't rely on the filter to protect my evap, but i guess every little bit helps.
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Nope I'm backward on that. I guess I always figured it was just for dust etc.
However, the cowl screens shouldn't allow anything big to get in there anyway?
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Huh. I thought the air filter was down stream of the fan and the evap.
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Nice work!
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Have not heard of that being an issue. How would the filter help protect the evap? I'm not keen on getting one.
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I did check when I had to replace the climate control module - the plastic perforations in the HVAC plenum are there, never been removed. What is thought to be standard equipment may vary by country?
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Thanks for the compliments guys.
Despite having an LE, no cabin filter in my rig.
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uh WHAT?!?! No, don't do that. Don't go jumping on tools. That's how you break stuff. You should never jump on something like a ratchet, you are more than likely to break what you trying to get loose and/or hurt yourself pretty badly.
Oh, ok, sorry if I implied you were...it's just a quite a bend in that tool. What were you doing when that happened?
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A little maintenance sometimes forgotten
in 96-2004 R50 Pathfinders
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For sure, any industry is like that. My point is in this case that the reliability increase off adding a filter is not significant.