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Originally Posted by bmwmike
I have about 20,000 km's on my car now and decided to take a peak at the air cleaner element. It only takes about 10 seconds to pull it out. It's already very dirty but probably good for another 6 months for my liking. I found lots of small pebbles, sand and dead bugs in the air cleaner unit before the filter element so I vacuumed it all out. Probably a good idea for everyone to clean out the sand, bugs, etc. sitting before the filter element on a regular basis.
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scheduled replacement for our air filters is 40000 km, I believe... unless you live in a very dusty or very wet environment.
Being that you are in Vancouver (which as you know better than any one is extremely wet) it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to change it in the next 5000 km or so... especially since it looks very dirty to you!