Can anyone who has replaced their seat filters from the white foam to the newer plastic comment on increased cooling/heating effect? anything noticeable?

my driver seat doesn't seem to cool very well anymore and my dealer wants $53 up here in Canada for 1 filter!

cheers!

as a side note, new SP-534 spark plugs are $10 each.

we get hosed pretty good here

 

Interested to know as well. I need to change mine too

 

Do you have a link for the "newer plastic" ones you mention? First I have heard of this but I am interested too.

 

Be careful when you buy these. I have seen these "filters" on amazon, and it turns out you are buying just the plastic ring, with no filter element!!

I popped both of mine off the other day, and blew them out with compressed air. The price for these is ridiculous. Yes I know these trucks cost 50k these days, but these filters shouldn't cost this much. I think they are about 23-25 bux here in the states. Each.

The seat fan looked like a small computer cooling fan.....

 

Mine still cool / heat ok...but i've got just over 50k and pretty sure they need cleaning or at least blown out -w- compressed air. Are they pretty straight forward to take out and clean? Sorry just haven't really peeked under the seats a great deal.

 

Shop vac'd mine this past weekend, just reach under the back of the seat after you adjust it up as high as it will go and they twist right off about a quarter turn. Easy

 

I just hit 30k and this is one of the items on the maintenance list. Worth doing?

 

The manual says to replace at 30,000 miles but I rarely turn mine on and the passenger seat has only been on 3 or 4 times in 2 years so I doubt if they're too dirty. I've only got 20,000 on the truck but I'm going to check them anyway at 30,000.

 

I use mine quite a bit during the summer here in Texas. I replaced them at about 60k miles and they didn't really need it. I could have gone to 100k I'm sure, but I already bought the filters. I'm sure an air compressor would be fine to clean them and reinstall.

 

I noticed some difference when I changed mine, but I didn't pay $25/each to do it either. I couldn't find anybody that had gone DIY on this and can't imagine why not. So, I did and here it is.


- 1 roll of fiberglass screen - $5
- tube of gorilla super glue - $3


-Pull out the old element. It is easier to push it from front to back and work around the edges.
-Next, use a lighter to burn of the little fragments of mesh that might hang on.
-Lay out a piece of wax paper
-cut out a couple of squares of the screen and lay them down on the wax paper
-put a thin line of gorilla glue around the rim of the filter body.
-place the filter body down onto the screen, twist a time or two to ensure good glue coverage and then hold in place for about 30 seconds.
-turn the it over and let dry for an hour or so.
-use an razor blade to trim the excess and you have two of the new updated filters for only $8.