Maybe it's time to check your cabin pollen filter?

**Tideland Prius** · 06-23-2005, 01:12 AM

Uh oh. I better check mine then. It's coming up to 8 months.

Bill Merchant · 06-23-2005, 02:26 PM

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Nono, it's not active. It's just a charged filter to trap particulates. Our standard filter is a dust and pollen but I've heard this electrostatic-type cabin filter is also available for some extra coin. Or maybe I'm dreaming lol. I don't think Vancouver's that polluted yet that we need a particulates filter.

[font=Comic Sans MS:9f1b55f955]Well, if you can tickle your memory bone and recollect where you may have seen this electrostatic filter, I'd still be interested. I, too, put a charcoal filter foam element after the pleated, formed OEM element, mostly to remove odors. I'm one of those people who does not like a new car smell.

Washing the pleated filter may remove some of its effectiveness, though any filter is better than none, which most cars have. Typically, passive electrostatic filters are designed to be washable.[/font:9f1b55f955]

**Tideland Prius** · 06-23-2005, 05:11 PM

It's on this site somewhere. Hmm, I'll do a search

jayman · 06-23-2005, 07:34 PM

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Go to a Home Depot and look at their replacement filters and measure to fit your unit.

That's also great advice for odd-size furnace filters too.

When I built my home in the Burbs around 4.5 years ago, I had a Bryant HRV (Heat Recovery Ventilator) installed.

The HRV is used to draw in fresh outside air and exhaust stale indoor air, very important for tightly sealed homes. The heat core allows heat transfer so at -40 you're not dumping icy air into the home.

The standard "filter" was a chunk of foam, so that had to go pronto. It was actually drawing in dust and pollen that summer. The Bryant dealer wanted to sell me "special" Bryant media filters, like $60 each.

He had some in stock and made the mistake of letting me take a close look at them. It was hard to make out but they were stamped "American Air Filter."

I took along one of the foam "filters" to the nearest Home Depot and found a wonderful selection of high efficiency (MERV 8-12) in stock, in many different sizes. I went with a MERV 12 in 14x25, which was closest to one of the dimensions of the foam "filter."

It even had a charcoal/carbon prefilter. $18 Cdn and all I had to do was trim to fit, so $9 per filter. Compare that to $60.

**Tideland Prius** · 06-23-2005, 08:09 PM

found it

http://priuschat.com/forums/cabin-air-filt...rostatic+filter

bigdaddy · 06-23-2005, 08:33 PM

I have friends that swear by the Ionic Breeze by Sharper Image. I see that there are a couple of models made for in-car use. Anybody have any experience with these (car or otherwise)?

nwprius · 06-23-2005, 09:38 PM

Read Consumer Reports, last month I think, about Ionic filters.

DaveinOlyWA · 06-23-2005, 10:43 PM

consumers report trashed the ionic breeze so badly that ionic breeze sued them. ionic breeze lost btw

Bill Merchant · 06-23-2005, 11:16 PM

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found it

http://priuschat.com/forums/cabin-ai...ostatic+filter

[font=Comic Sans MS:dc9e1cab8e]Thanks, Tideland, for the link. I'll check into this.[/font:dc9e1cab8e]

bigdaddy · 06-24-2005, 07:26 AM

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consumers report trashed the ionic breeze so badly that ionic breeze sued them. ionic breeze lost btw

Thanks! Won't be going in that direction... Makes me wonder what CU has said about hybrids and the Prius. Need to check that out too.

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06-23-2005, 01:12 AM	#11
Tideland Prius Moderator of the North Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 21,204 My Car: 2010 Prius Model: N/A Package: Technology Package (Canada) Thanks: 370 Thanked 529 Times in 356 Posts Friends: 26	Uh oh. I better check mine then. It's coming up to 8 months.

06-23-2005, 05:11 PM	#13
Tideland Prius Moderator of the North Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 21,204 My Car: 2010 Prius Model: N/A Package: Technology Package (Canada) Thanks: 370 Thanked 529 Times in 356 Posts Friends: 26	It's on this site somewhere. Hmm, I'll do a search

06-23-2005, 08:09 PM	#15
Tideland Prius Moderator of the North Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 21,204 My Car: 2010 Prius Model: N/A Package: Technology Package (Canada) Thanks: 370 Thanked 529 Times in 356 Posts Friends: 26	found it http://priuschat.com/forums/cabin-air-filt...rostatic+filter

06-23-2005, 08:33 PM	#16
bigdaddy Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Duluth Georgia Posts: 992 My Car: Model: Package: Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Friends: 0	I have friends that swear by the Ionic Breeze by Sharper Image. I see that there are a couple of models made for in-car use. Anybody have any experience with these (car or otherwise)?

06-23-2005, 09:38 PM	#17
nwprius Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Roy, Washington and Nanaimo, Canada Posts: 150 My Car: 2006 Prius Model: Package: #4 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post Friends: 1	Read Consumer Reports, last month I think, about Ionic filters.

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DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: South Puget Sound, WA Posts: 12,837 My Car: 2010 Prius Model: IV Package: Solar Roof Thanks: 40 Thanked 189 Times in 162 Posts Friends: 12	consumers report trashed the ionic breeze so badly that ionic breeze sued them. ionic breeze lost btw