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Anyone know which cars sold in Thailand have cabin air filters? As far as I know, my 2009 Mazda 3 does not, but recent Toyota Vios models do.

I'm asking this because a day's driving in Chiang Mai city gives me a cough, and I would like to change to something with better cabin air quality.

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Uneducated people refer to a Refrigeration Unit as Air Condition. Air Condition is only fitted to Luxury Cars. Bentley's, Maybachs etc. Americans Salesmen make it clear, about the only ones ive found who do. Their Salesmen say Its ""Got Fridge"" and don't bullshit you with its Air Coned .. If it has Air Con they point it out as a BiG PLUS.. A Vios with Air Con, dream on.:D

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Uneducated people refer to a Refrigeration Unit as Air Condition. Air Condition is only fitted to Luxury Cars. Bentley's, Maybachs etc. Americans Salesmen make it clear, about the only ones ive found who do. Their Salesmen say Its ""Got Fridge"" and don't bullshit you with its Air Coned .. If it has Air Con they point it out as a BiG PLUS.. A Vios with Air Con, dream on.:D

The question was, which cars have cabin air filter?

Mazda 3 should have a filter, among most others:

Wikipedia calls the car frigde :blink: also Automobile air conditioners

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THe Vigo has a small filter in the air outlet of the airconditioning. I have found that by wrapping it in the hepa filter paper available in supermarkets for adding to housold airconditioning it works better.

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My honda civic didn't have one originally. When I had my car carpet cleaned during flooding, the shop suggested to put one in. It was about 700 baht. It is ok, but as you would expect it slows the air flow speed, so have to crank it up to get a good air flow. If your car doesn't have one there is possibly a slot where one can be fitted.

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All Thai made cars have a provision for adding a particulate filter, but most do not actually come with the filter as standard.

Filters generally cost about 300 Baht in the aftermarket, or 700-1600 for the same thing if dealer fitted. All decent auto accessory vendors will have them in-stock for popular models.

Note that this is just a simple mechanical filtration though - It will stop diesel smoke and dust coming in, but it will not stop odors - for that you'd need a plasma cluster - they generate Ozone which helps to neutralize organic based odors, and some also generate negative Ions which make airborne particles "magnetic" enough that they stick to solid surfaces, rather than continue floating around in the air.

I'm not a huge fan of plasma's though - in order to develop Ozone with a useful half-life, they're actually generating something like O10 or more (Ozone is O3, but is not stable enough at ground elevations to do the job), and at those high levels it starts becoming mildly corrosive to humans.

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Hi :)

All Volvo has cabin filter and Volvo S80 Superior has cabin filter with activated charcoal and all Volvo are are certified according to the Oeko-Tex standard for being allergy-friendly.

You can read more here:

http://www.theautoch.../20/007646.html

Have a nice day!

:wai:

But are they Thai massive air pollution friendly?

Euro4 and Euro5 depends on model.

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Camrys electronic filter works great, plasmacluster or something like that

My Cruze has at least 3.:sorry:

You sure, thought it had 10. :crazy:

it did

until it was made cheap for TH market, so not even the low spec LTZ has plazmacluzter, and the cheap editionz have nothing

must be a pile of filterz and airbagz building up at Daewoo Korea :lol: :lol: :lol:

whats the weather like up north? here in Phuket it as been pouring down for a week, had to shock chlorine my pool due to all the rainwater blending in, and some roads in Patong have been to flooded (90cm) even for Fortuna/Vigo4x4

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Camrys electronic filter works great, plasmacluster or something like that

My Cruze has at least 3.:sorry:

You sure, thought it had 10. :crazy:

it did

until it was made cheap for TH market, so not even the low spec LTZ has plazmacluzter, and the cheap editionz have nothing

must be a pile of filterz and airbagz building up at Daewoo Korea :lol: :lol: :lol:

whats the weather like up north? here in Phuket it as been pouring down for a week, had to shock chlorine my pool due to all the rainwater blending in, and some roads in Patong have been to flooded (90cm) even for Fortuna/Vigo4x4

Very little rain for the time of year up here, very patchy and mainly at night. :huh:

In fact l am going to cut the grass.

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Camrys electronic filter works great, plasmacluster or something like that

My Cruze has at least 3.:sorry:

You sure, thought it had 10. :crazy:

it did

until it was made cheap for TH market, so not even the low spec LTZ has plazmacluzter, and the cheap editionz have nothing

must be a pile of filterz and airbagz building up at Daewoo Korea :lol: :lol: :lol:

whats the weather like up north? here in Phuket it as been pouring down for a week, had to shock chlorine my pool due to all the rainwater blending in, and some roads in Patong have been to flooded (90cm) even for Fortuna/Vigo4x4

The Cruze ploughs straight through.. Only the Rover gets stuck.:bah:.... Nah, its not bad on the Main roads from Nan, yesterday i went through Prayer something, then Uttaradit, Phitsanulok Nakasa Nowhere,straight to Suphanburi,Nothing. Its the Villages suffering most. Hate to admit it,but i don't even know offhand what tyres Ive got fitted. Did a Few Wonderful Rooster Tails though, no aquaplaning.

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Uneducated people refer to a Refrigeration Unit as Air Condition. Air Condition is only fitted to Luxury Cars. Bentley's, Maybachs etc. Americans Salesmen make it clear, about the only ones ive found who do. Their Salesmen say Its ""Got Fridge"" and don't bullshit you with its Air Coned .. If it has Air Con they point it out as a BiG PLUS.. A Vios with Air Con, dream on.:D

Sorry Star we disagree here, an air conditioner is the proper terminology as it "conditions the air" by cooling it and removing moisture, an air purifying conditioner is what your referring to and I've never heard any dealers back home distinguish the difference UNLESS they are in high end sales and want to intentionally draw a distinction for sales purposes..

Most cars these days do have an interior (and most are Hepa filters) to remove interior contaminants and the like when in re-circulation mode as well as one on the fresh air side as but they are both a PITA to remove and clean or in most cases replace and as MRO says they don't install them here generally on low spec cars.. Doubtful you'd even find many servicemen here who even have any clue what you're talking about having seldom seen nor serviced them before..

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Im on about my old Benz back in the 60 ties,you could smoke and no one could tell..Also my Range Rover is more Pong Proof than the Old Scratchers new Accord. Suppose you get what you pay for. I aint fussey anyway. I remember early Air just blasted out Cold with little refinement, but then im a 66Year Old Grumpy,you pups have it easy.

We had no Filters for Herpes either.:D

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Im on about my old Benz back in the 60 ties,you could smoke and no one could tell

Maybe a bad example, everyone smoked back in the 60's (especially if they could afford to drive a Benz) so who could tell? ;)

We had no Filters for Herpes either.:D

Well, that innovation it's not so much a physcial filter, but more a filter of deduction :D

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Back then a Car was even more a status symbol than today,footballers rode Motorcycles, now they drive Exotics. If i think back ,a BMW Coupe was the only car i regret parting with, a 3.0. Litre Alpina from Frank Sytner Garages. Memories come back since i started reading this forum.There were no Cruzes in those days, how i suffered.:rolleyes:

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Thanks for all the replies, guys. I'll try to get one fitted to my Mazda 3 at the dealership this week, but I don't hold much hope of success.

Back in the UK decades ago I had a Saab 900, no air cooler but the cabin air filter was accessible under the bonnet/hood and changeable in 30 secs flat.

More than ever, the 21st century seems to be about the abuse of technology - build it cheap, don't let the user have control, use the tech to screw the customer. The megacorp doesn't give a dam_n, usability and maintainability is for wimps, public health (as in air quality inside or outside your car) is of no importance to anyone. Up here in CM the street enforcer BIBs seem to collect their Buddhist social work offerings without ever making a serious crackdown on all the clapped-out trucks, pickups and 2-stroke bikes that belch out tons (literally) of toxic and carcinogenic internal-combustion-engine-fart, leading to some of the highest levels of lung and cardiac diseases for any city in the world.

Oh well, such is life (and death) in the LOS.

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