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Thursday, July 27, 2023

Air conditioning cabin filter

 A Lexus ES 330 came in with a no air from vents complaint. We proceeded to start testing the blower motor and control circuits, we looked at factory bulletins and tested it's power supplies. To our surprise, all tested fine as we noticed the blower motor in the air condition system was working but not moving any air. We then removed the cabin filter to see if there was anything to impeed the air tra
ffic through the air ducts. This is what we found (please see the photo). It took only 8 months for the filter in the picture to get to that point. Mind you, the vehicle was parked every night under a bottle brush tree. Cabin air filters due a great job at providing vehicle passengers with clean breathable air. How long has it been since the one in your car was inspected and or replaced? On most cases, ABC Auto Care in Ventura will do the inspection as a courtesy if you call them to schedule the appiontment. Go to https://www.abcautocare.com/appointment/

    
Interesting thing. Many times I've asked myself how is it we managed to survive without this wonderful (cabin filter) feature. I'd like to thing that today, we are able to manage our drives with far less respiratory issues such as allergies, colds and flues. The filter is an important part of your health. We are lucky, in the Ventura and Oxnard area, we enjoy a tremendously good quality of air. As you get closer to LA county, that changes dramatically the closer you get to densly populated urban areas. Replacing your air condition cabin filter once a year is good enough around Ventura, unless there are other circumstances such as dust, tree leaves, pollen or recent fires in the way.