Halfords Air Filters?

Yes; they never visit, they never call....you give them the best years of your life and what do you get? Nothing!

Si - Courtesy of Kronenbourg 1664

Also sprach "Mungo \"two sheds\" Toadfoot" :-

What d'yer expect from something made of rubber and paper?

No, then again I've never used them. The price difference between OEM ones and halfords ones isn't enough to make any potential hassle worth while.

The quality is OK, but be careful if your car model has had different size filters over its production run, as Halfords seem to get things wrong in their parts lists quite often (my last 3 cars anyway). I gave up with their petrol filters though, they are more restrictive than a dirty OEM causing low speed surging on my 2.0 Primera and are no cheaper than OEM.

Good point Steve do what we used to do with Rootes (Hillman/chrysler/talbot etc) take your old one in for comparison in the bad old days a single model year could have as many as three different setups for consumables my old mate "Eric the spares" used to look at a part and majically the correct item would appear in his hand , so help me the next mong who asks for a chassis number for a bulb or similar is going to get buried under a motorway Derek XR3i who needs Viagra

It's just that since changing the air filter in my gf's car the performance has dropped suddenly and all I can put it down to is when we changed the filter. OK its no where near a performance car but it was able to give a good punch of power and now its like driving a lorry.

I usually use pattern filters with no problem. If you suspect a problem then drop-in a genuine parts filter. It is quite possible that a pattern filter will have a lower flow-rate than a genuine.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

Oi, you been looking at my cheques?

Also sprach "Malc" :-

I get mine printed by Dunlop.

Easy enough to check - swop for an EOM one and see if there's a difference. Then swop back and forth a couple of times just in case it was the fitting of the filter that was at fault, not the filter itself.