 Earl Glanshaw forming here at Township Chevrolet for another edition of Tech Talk I'm gonna go over some basics today. I guess air filters They're just as important as they ever were cars Advanced and they get systems get newer and the cars get newer. There's less and less things that We do on a you know on a regular basis that we used to do and would call a tune-up For instance spark plug wires most cars don't have those anymore Fuel filters they don't have those anymore But there is a few things that you still remain like an engineer filter and they're just as important as important as they ever were and Sometimes even maybe a little more important with a lot of engines being turboed. So the air induction system is really important So we'll do I just got a cruise here It's a 1.4 liter and it is a turbo engine This customer's vehicle only has about 2,000 kilometers on it. So not very or sorry 20,000 kilometers on it So not very much for the most part most people would think that the air filter should be pretty clean still and everything Good to go. So I've already gone ahead and loosened up the screws here. I'm gonna unplug the mass airflow sensor This is the sensor that reads the volume of air that's going into the engine a lot of vehicles used to have What they call the speed density where we kind of guess that with a few other inputs of other sensors But now and they've been doing this for quite a few years now They got this sensor in here that actually reads the volume that goes through there Of air to make its Main adjustments for air fuel mixture. So it's very important So obviously when that filters dirty and there's not enough air going by that's gonna throw out the whole the whole Calculation so I've loosened up the the screws like I said, I've pulled out the hose here The clamp and there's the screws So we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna flip this over and this is gonna be your air assembly on this Mainly to check these things what I do If you can see light through them Then the air is getting through so I just go ahead and I just shine a light through that Make sure there's a good airflow getting through it if there's not or it's plugged up But the advisor know we'll come out and talk with you and give you a quote on getting that filter changed Now one thing I did notice when I took this off the air filter on this vehicle is good But inside the breather box here. There's obviously over the Winter months has been a little critter in here because we've got some peanut shells and some some of those little leaves and seeds and stuff in there so Even without replacing the filter it's a good idea to clean all this out of here It could block the airflow and also just take a look down the piping to make sure nothing's in there and plugged up so The less air your engine gets in the less that mass airflow sensor picks up on air, which means it's gonna limit fuel Which would almost make you think that maybe the car be better on gas What will happen is you'll end up giving it more throttle to try to compensate for that restricted airflow Which is gonna cause you to burn more gas So the more power you have the less gas you can potentially burn because you don't have to give it as much throttle input, right? With the turbo It's even more important because now instead of just using the manifold pressure to draw that air and now you've got a turbo That's that's pulling trying to pull that air through so a restriction becomes even more noticeable And then you'll even have less power which means you're obviously more throttle input and your harder on gas too So for the most part these things are pretty easy to look at pretty easy to check We do it pretty much every time you bring your vehicle in here no matter what it's for the boys They'll pull this just to make sure everything's good because it's such an easy thing to to look at and check for you guys and For the most part they're pretty cheap to usually roughly around thirty nine dollars give or take depending on the application of the brand of The vehicle will put one of those in and it'll keep your car run You know really well and keep the fuel mileage up so Just something to keep in mind if you if you're not sure if this has been checked or if You know the grad you go to hasn't been checking in or you want someone to check it Just bring it in and let us know and we've been more than happy to pull that for you and take a look It's another addition to tech talk and we look forward to doing business with you. Thanks