cold air intake

[paulgreen]

K&N cold air intake for the V6 3lt ecodeisel thoughts feedback. 2015 WK2 limited

[drover]

Are you looking at just their filters or a Pod ????

Not a fan of pods myself...........sucking engine bay air.

[SouthernComfort]

The stock setup is pretty good as it sucks air directly from outside the engine bay. I'm with drover, last thing you'd want is a pod (if that's what you're looking at) under the bonnet taking in hot air. Personally I can't see the benefit of a such a mod on these engines.

[Nanook]

Pods might look great on hyundais with big wings, but they are useless at doing anything but sucking in hot air.

The panel filters are pretty good for road vehicles but I'm not a fan of them in a 4WD. If you are driving in dusty conditions oil filled filters clog up pretty badly.

Best to stick with a good quality paper filter. They do the same job and you can tap the majority of the dust out and throw it back in.

You also don't care if the guy doing your service replaces it. Having them replace a $120 K&N filter with a $20 paper one tends to sting.

[drover]

Oh and I just thought you do not want anything but a dry filter, the oily ones will contaminate the MAF sensor...... I use one from aftermarket and throw them along with my other filters at 10K, not a lot of coin and with the Kms I do every 3 months new filters all round.
Last trip the filter got blown out before departure at about 6K so on the 10K when I got back, so 4K and the box was full of bugs/leaves and dust, filter had a goodly amount while the intake beyond the filter was clean as a whistle, passed the white glove test (actually the paper towel test) so more than happy with a bog standard filter.

[Fishframe]

I don’t have a WK, but wouldn’t use a K&N or anything other than OEM spec air filter. I’ve tried them all.

Other cars I’ve had with CAI / OTRCAI’s have required retuning. So be prepared with that.

One question, why?

[paulgreen]

Thanks for all the good info, going to leave it as is