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It's (Not) Complicated (Engine Air Filter)

While many components of your vehicle are complex and composed of lots of mechanical and electrical parts, there's one that isn't complicated but still important.  It's your engine air filter. (A...
Published on: Nov 09, 2025

MAF Sensor and Engine Air Filter

Today's Preferred Automotive Specialists post focuses on the importance of protecting your mass air flow sensor or MAF. Air and fuel are mixed together to be burned in your engine. The amount is contr...
Published on: Oct 12, 2025

Replace Your Engine Air Filter At Preferred Automotive Specialists

Your engine also needs clean air to burn the fuel – and it needs a lot.  In fact, a typical vehicle needs about 216,000 gallons of air for every tank of gas.  All that air passes thro...
Published on: Aug 17, 2025

Deep Breathing In Jenkintown: Engine Air Filter

{{ image('MzAx') }} Your vehicle engine really needs clean air to operate efficiently. It takes about twelve thousand gallons of air to burn a gallon of gas in your vehicle engine. And clean air is m...
Published on: Jul 27, 2025

Simple Answers from Preferred Automotive Specialists: Engine Air Filter

Question What’s the harm in putting off replacing my engine air filter a little longer? Answer That’s a fair question because the harm takes a while to manifest.  Let’s take ...
Published on: May 11, 2025

MAF Filter

Air and fuel are mixed together to be burned in your engine. You request how much of each you need by how hard you press on the accelerator, by going up or down a hill or by how much you are carrying ...
Published on: Apr 01, 2022

Clean Air For Your Engine Engine Air Filters In Jenkintown

We’ve all been in for an oil change and told that our engine air filter’s dirty.  Here’s what goes into the determination of when to change the filter:  First, your owner&r...
Published on: Jan 19, 2022

Engine Air Filter Basics for Jenkintown

Today in the Preferred Automotive Specialists car care blog, we want to talk about your engine air filter. That's the filter that cleans the air before it's burned in your engine. Jenkintown residents...
Published on: Nov 02, 2021