Source for pollen filters

try Vauxhall or your local motor factor.

Local factors £5 VAT got one this morning!

That should be PLUS VAT.

You can have my old one for £2-50.

In October?

Windows get nice and foggy after rain - and there`s lots of rain about this time of the year.

Aye, but there's not a lot of pollen - so not much point having a filter.

Well, apart from weeds:-

Andrew

one of the uses of a pollen filter is to stop rubbish getting into the fine vanes of your heater and blocking it up, so leaving it out is not a good option, a blocked filter means the heater doesn't work right, especially on astras and corsas oddly enough, perhaps because of the increased difficulty of changing it compared to an escort it gets ignored till it is a problem.

Mrcheerful

And all the other little floating particules that aren`t good for human health? Plus if I take the filter out, i`ll forget to put it back in again when there is pollen about.

I didn`t think it was that difficult doing the astra? Seen some instructions, seems to suggest it`s a 5 minute job. Just been lazy, plus only had the car for 9-10 months.

OK, seems I've been told! I never bother with the things myself and it's never done me any harm.

Andrew Morton ( snipped-for-privacy@in-press.co.uk.invalid) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I doubt they're fine enough.

Not really difficult, but you do need some tools, many cars you can do the job with fingers alone.

Mrcheerful

And there are times you just wished you had a Jeremy Beadle right hand to get at those awkward nooks & crannies.

Without the filter, you get a *lot* of condensation on the screen. As in 'instant total mist up' when you turn the fan on. DAMHIKT.

And yes it can be a 5 minute job to do it on an Astra, just bend/ease the plastic covers out of the way instead of trying to remove them completely. I've done it twice, once following Mr Haynes (25 min, two knuckles) and once follwing the Japlish instructions in the cheapo pollen filter box (5 min, no knuckles damaged).

Mr Haynes can be handy when you don`t have a clue about cars (like myself), but there`s often a better way to do the job. I`ve got some Japlish instructions for the job, should be easy. if not, that`s why I bought it from the mechanic next door :-)

The major issue with Haynes Manuals as far as I can see is that they are written from the point of view of dismantling the whole car - not 'what's the least that can be done to do this particular job'.

Admittedly that would make them 15 times the size and far too expensive to buy, but there you go.

i got fed up with the "Haynes Manuals" years ago as they seem to keep telling people that they have to take the car to the dealers.

Very true. I can do a lot of things to my car using the haynes. The mechanic next door can do pretty much anything with the car and a lot quicker than me, but he knows what he`s doing any why. i`m following step by step instructions and hoping it all goes back together again at the end :-)