How to know when to change your car's filters | Ford Denver

• Filters keep engine running smoothly, efficiently, and avoid costly repairs
  
• Placed in each major system to trap foreign matter that contaminates car's fluids, air, and gasses.
  
• Change filters regularly for optimum performance and health of your engine. 
  
• Check your car's owners manual for filters: engine filter, fuel filter, cabin filter, and oil filter

• Combustion process comes into the car through the air-induction system.
  
• Prevent debris from getting into system.
  
• Without filter, bits of dirt or sand can be abrasive to the cylinder compromising the combustion process
• A dirty filter compromises car's efficiency and performance.

• Opening a vent in your car brings in the outside air; pleasant or not so pleasant. 
  
• Cabin filters clean the air coming through vent 
• Functioning cabin air filter can stop up to 90% of dust, pollen, and spore particles from entering the cabin.
  
• Changing your cabin air filters, is not easy DIY job. Check your owners manual, Google, and YouTube; to see if you have tools.
  

Have your Cabin Filter changed today and breathe fresh air!

• Strains out dirt and other particles, like rust and stray carbon, that could be drawn into engine from the gas tank.
• Clogged fuel filter causes engine to not run efficiently.
  
• The proper amount of fuel will not flowing as engine requires.

• Moving parts are lubricated for easy movement
  
• Oil is pumped out of oil pan by a pump
• Passes through filter to remove any debris
• Squirts under pressure onto the bearings and the cylinder walls.
• Oil trickles into and collected in the sump
• Process is repeated over and over again.
  
• Oil filter will be changed by your service technician at same time your engine oil is changed.

• You drive in excessively dusty conditions
• You see a lot of dirt in the filter
• You have a rough idle or sluggish acceleration
• You have decreased fuel efficiency
  

• You or a frequent passenger suffer from allergies or other respiratory problems
• You drive in excessively dusty conditions
• You drive in heavily polluted areas
• Your car has a musty smell

• Your vehicle is difficult to start
• Your vehicle idles rough or stalls
• You have sluggish acceleration
  
• You have decreased fuel economy
• You suspect you have a bad tank of fuel