why?

[jasonyw]

everytime I clean the air filter, it got sands with compressor engine?

Does it suck air extraordinary than non compressor engine?

 

[television]

It will be all down to where you live, could it be moon dust, been a lot around of late

 

[Naraic]

Yes.......

 

[dieselman]

Or someone's been taking late night forays to the beach.

 

[jasonyw]

Thanks good nite guys.

 

[47p2]

why?


Because....

 

[HaydnM]

If only Mercedes made Beaches :lol:

 

[jasonyw]

there always sand in the air filter container in the W211 including the R170 but not on the W202. where the sand comes from?

 

[drmw]

Grains of sand are really very tiny particles of rock. It takes time and certain kinds of weather to turn rock into sand. Rain, frost, and wind can do the job. At beaches, the tide hitting against the rocks forms sand. Salt water, too, forms sand by dissolving minerals in the rocks.

 

[jasonyw]

Grains of sand are really very tiny particles of rock. It takes time and certain kinds of weather to turn rock into sand. Rain, frost, and wind can do the job. At beaches, the tide hitting against the rocks forms sand. Salt water, too, forms sand by dissolving minerals in the rocks.

I know where there are sands, I was asking how it landed in the air filter container with compressor engine

 

[dieselman]

It does on all cars, but some pick it up more due to the air intake facing forwards just behind the grille.

Fit a free-flow air filter, that way less of it will stay in the airbox...


LOL..

 

[Blakey]

I know where there are sands, I was asking how it landed in the air filter container with compressor engine

Been behind a gritter lately or on a gritted road. Almost certainly where the sand will have come from. :?

 

[television]

Been behind a gritter lately or on a gritted road. Almost certainly where the sand will have come from. :?

I still think it is moon dust, that one of the problems of living there

 

[47p2]

Just remove the air filter element and the sand will go straight through and out the exhaust into the air box of the Mercedes behind you

 

[Alex M Grieve]

Just remove the air filter element and the sand will go straight through and out the exhaust into the air box of the Mercedes behind you

would that give the driver behind grounds for complaint though?

 

[islatdi]

everytime I clean the air filter, it got sands with compressor engine?

Does it suck air extraordinary than non compressor engine?

next time you are in the place where you get sand in your air filter then just drive untill your ears start to get wet into the blue stuff and that will clean it out for you! i swear by salt water its an instant cure for un-wanted ailments. happy motoring!!!:wink:

or you could buy an imported japanise model....theres a lot going cheap that would suit your wanted criteria of needs.

 

[turbopete]

next time you are in the place where you get sand in your air filter then just drive untill your ears start to get wet into the blue stuff and that will clean it out for you! i swear by salt water its an instant cure for un-wanted ailments. happy motoring!!!:wink:

or you could buy an imported japanise model....theres a lot going cheap that would suit your wanted criteria of needs.

why dont you say what you REALLY think, Isla

 

[islatdi]

why dont you say what you REALLY think, Isla

its rude to hold back pete! just saying out loud rather than thinking! honesty is what poloticians lack and im to thick to be insulted to a huge degree!

 

[dieselman]

or you could buy an imported japanise model....theres a lot going cheap that would suit your wanted criteria of needs.

I hear the market is awash with them.

 

[bahram]

So where is this sand coming from then? I have a Kompressor engine and getting really worried about this sand. Jasonyw did you figure it out yet??