Keeping Your Tucson Air Fresh When Driving With a Clean Cabin Air Filter

Pop quiz: What is a cabin air filter?

A. A filter for your Tucson house?
B. A fresh, piney scent?
C. A filter for the passenger compartment of your car?

Clever you, it’s C.

A cabin air filter cleans the outside air before it comes into the passenger compartment of your vehicle. It filters out common AZ air particles like dust, pollen, spores, bacteria, pollutants, exhaust gas, odors and even sparrows.

These high tech filters can block particles larger than 3 microns. By contrast, a grain of sand is about 200 microns.

Not all Tucson vehicles have cabin air filters. They are fairly new on the scene in AZ. Last check, about 40 percent of new vehicles sold in Tucson come with cabin air filters, but the number is growing every year.

Cabin air filters make driving a lot more pleasant for people in Tucson. Your vehicle can be a haven during our AZ allergy season with very little dust and pollen getting into the cabin. Of course, like all filters, the cabin air filter eventually gets clogged. When this happens, your heating and air conditioning flow can become restricted. The filter can even get kind of smelly.

Come by and we’ll take a look at your cabin air filter for you.