K&n filter?

[HBarlow]

Will K&N pay to replace your engine when it is dusted by a K&N filter or will you expect Dodge to honor their warranty and pay?

 

[RonD]

If it was proven the filer let dust in and screwed up the engine, Dodge should not have to fix it under warranty, but from my experiences that should never be an issue, because if it is installed warranty, the claim would never occur in the first place, but people sometimes don't have a clue what there doing, and can screw up anything, as I said, the paper filter is fine for 99% of all of us, I was just making the point, don't knock the manufacture, when it's the idiot that installed it, and serviced it incorrectly is to blame.

 

[Jim W]

If it was proven the filer let dust in and screwed up the engine, Dodge should not have to fix it under warranty, but from my experiences that should never be an issue, because if it is installed warranty, the claim would never occur in the first place, but people sometimes don't have a clue what there doing, and can screw up anything, as I said, the paper filter is fine for 99% of all of us, I was just making the point, don't knock the manufacture, when it's the idiot that installed it, and serviced it incorrectly is to blame.

Hi Ron,

If you think K&N filters are OK for the Cummins engine, then why don't you ask them?

Here is a link where you can ask this question and they should answer you.

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Jim W.

 

[Ram4Sam]

I have been to the K&N filter facility in Riverside CA it was about about 5 years ago, they do test all there products, most people that knock then have never had one IMO. They are a cotton layered oiled filter, they started back years ago for off road racing, if your getting oil in your intake, you didn't oil it correctly, they have instructions, if your getting dust in your intake you didn't oil it correctly. I have a Banks Intake on my 05, it has a cotton oiled filter just like the K&N, I use K&N oil on it, my intake is spotless, and there is no oil on anything, my 55 Chevy street rod has a K&N, same thing there, when I had my airplane, a Beechcraft Bonanza, it had a K&N, no problem there, so you can knock the K&N all you want, but if you never owned one, try to stop repeating all the conversation you read on web sites, it isn't true. Now with that said, the factory paper filters do a fine job, and when I get my 2012 Ram this year I will not be installing a K&N, because for what I will be using the truck for, I don't need one. I don't do oil testing on my truck, but when I had the airplane I did, and after adding the K&N air filter, the Silicone (dirt) in the oil was reduced, the stock paper filter looked like a car filter, 5x12, and about an inch thick, that is my test, it helped, I like there filters, but you have to have the right situation to require one.

Ron, you are just wasting your time here. Like many forums found on the internet, you don't actually have to use a product to profess how well it works or doesn't work. You can read about it on the internet, save the cost of purchasing it, and become an expert on it.



Sam