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So.....with the fires in the San Gabriel Mountains, and elsewhere across California and most of the rest of the western states, I'm sure all (locally) have noted all the soot & ash falling from the skies. With my leaf blower, I cleaned my driveway recently, and got enough I swept up, to fill a couple inches in a bucket. Cars driving around create their own little 'cloud of dust' like Pigpen, in the old Charlie Brown cartoons.
Is there any need to be concerned about driving our 'bottom-feeding' Corvettes around while this condition exists? Every car, including my own (3) are covered with ash, and I woke up thinking about my supercharged C5 sucking that 'stuff' into the engine.....
Inspect/clean/replace your air filter on a routine basis, and I don't think there's much to worry about. That's why it's there.
But....it depends on how much you drive your car as to how often you need to check the air filter in that bad environment. A few years ago, we had bad fires that caused most of us to evacuate. The ash filled up our air filters within a month of daily driving. One guy in our office did not change his cabin air filter in his Honda Pilot for over a year. When he finally did it looked someone filled it with ash from his BBQ!
Last edited by Vet Interested; 09-14-2020 at 01:19 AM.
If you want to hold off putting new filters in until the fires are taken care of you can pull them and clean them with a shop vac. Worked great for me. Just be very careful with cabin air filter. It might try to enter the vac. (Ask me how I know)?
09-13-2020, 10:26 AM
Bottom-feeding Corvettes
But....it depends on how much you drive your car as to how often you need to check the air filter in that bad environment. A few years ago, we had bad fires that caused most of us to evacuate. The ash filled up our air filters within a month of daily driving. One guy in our office did not change his cabin air filter in his Honda Pilot for over a year. When he finally did it looked someone filled it with ash from his BBQ!
