K&N Filters

[b_hickman11]

Originally Posted by 1stToyota

Every 3k miles!!!??? That applies to what, 1% of the drivers? And we're trying to ignore the fact that a big portion of K&N buyers ask about HP and MPG gains (they've always been marketed as a PERFORMANCE filter)...so their purpose for buying isn't just all about being able to clean and reuse.
You must think they're wonderful, a lot of people do, that's why they've sold so many and have such a good following. I'd imagine that they've got about 5% of the market (could be closer to 2-3% ??), but for one reason or another about 95% choose to buy Wix, OEM, Fram, etc, instead. Oh well.



Under those very dusty conditions not sure that a premium paper filter wouldn't be the wiser choice

I didn't say it applied to ALL drivers. I said it applies to my situation. Did I say, "hey everyone on here needs to change their paper filters every 3000 miles?" No I don't remember saying that. The reason uneducated people think that ALL K&N filters have performance gains is because the first filters they come out with were for performance cars that already put out a lot of HP. And they did claim to give you more HP and THOSE filters did. Then many years down the road the developers decided to come up with reusable filters for your everyday driver.(Drop-ins) Because of their history of their performance filters people, like you, assume that the drop-ins will have the same effects that the performance filters and intake systems. Now they could have came out and said, "Our new filters do not provide as many benefits as our old filters," but I guess they thought that consumers, like you, were smarter than that.