wildfire soot/smoke really blackened my engine air filter.

i have no rhyme or reasoning behind my engine air filter change. i'm not on a regular schedule of any sort. i just kinda peek in look at it periodically, or just buy one. no big deal. i have never found it clogged or totally blocking out the sun.

yesterday, i changed my oil because that "maint" light annoys me. i was one quart short in my stash! i was staring hard at my stash of motorcycle oil but, i went to buy a quart ($9.99!!!) at my LAPS. figured, get a engine air filter while i was there.

i was shocked!! it was fairly black. super dark gray for sure. i think i drove my truck daily for about 3 weeks in really bad AQI numbers. i remember a 350 AQI once.

now: i am off to buy my wife's car new filters. i am gonna change out the in-cabin filters as well.
i wonder what my lungs look like!!

check your filters?

 

Thanks for the heads up, gotta check mine tomorrow. 350AQI is amateur hour around here, We hit 1400 the other day. 7 weeks of smoke is killing my lungs, hopefully not my truck.

 

Was going to restore mine a few weeks ago after the SC lightning complex fire... and then the napa fires happened so waited it out.
Fingers crossed that nothing happens these next few weeks because I need to restore my filter ASAP!

 

my gut tells me our fires season is over. fingers crossed. the nice cool morning weather will help. and the winds have been fairly harmless.

last year this time, i was blacked out for three weeks. hahha..