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Used Smart fortwo Pollen Filter
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About Pollen Filter
The fortwo Smart pollen filter cleans and filters the air coming into the car and gets rid of allergens, which is essential for those who have allergies or suffer with respiratory difficulties. Having clean, filtered air in your car is also said to avoid problems such as headaches, fatigue and nausea.
The fortwo Smart pollen filter can be located in various places, such as behind the glove box, under the dashboard, or under the bonnet.
The fortwo Smart pollen filter catches pollen, dust, bacteria, exhaust fumes and stops any other particles, as well as leaves, dirt, twigs, insects and general road debris before they can enter the car's heating and ventilation and air conditioning systems.
The Car Care Council's advice is to change the air pollen filter every 12,000-15,000 miles. It is advisable, in any case, to check the fortwo Smart pollen filter annually, to make sure it isn't clogged up and is still in good working order. How regularly you need to replace it will depend on factors such as how often you drive your car and the length of your car journeys, and climate, air quality and road conditions will play a big part in how hard the fortwo Smart pollen filter is having to work.
A sign that the fortwo Smart air pollen filter needs replacing is a bad smell in the car which can be caused by a blocked or dirty pollen filter. A clogged up pollen filter can cause the air in the car to be contaminated with fumes and debris and because you are in an enclosed space this contamination is concentrated. A blocked pollen filter can also inhibit air flow in the air conditioning and heating and ventilation system which could cause problems with the heating and cooling functions of these systems. It's worth ensuring you change the fortwo Smart pollen filter before any problems like clogging, due to dirt build up, arise, particularly for the health benefits that having clean, filtered air provides. fortwo Smart pollen filters should not be cleaned and then put back in, you should always replace the fortwo Smart pollen filter with a new one.
Smart trivia
- You can fit a Smart ForTwo the wrong way in a parallel parking space, or you can fit two of them into a basic one-car parking space. That makes it ideal for busy cities, which is why the Smart range was designed in the first place.
- The very first Smart brand microcar made it to production in 1994, but it didn't make it to the world stage until a lot later. You couldn’t buy a Smart car in the US until 2008 (but it did sell 25,000 units when it did go on sale).
- One of the first adverts showcasing the safety of Smart cars was criticized for suspected fakery because consumers didn't believe any of the claims made in the ads. However, Smart released a behind the scenes video on YouTube that showed how the advert was made and revealed that Smart cars are a lot sturdier than you might think.
- Smart doesn’t offer a huge range of vehicles. The most popular is the Smart ForTwo, but the ForFour is growing in popularity. You might also have seen the Smart Brabus, which is larger but still considered a microcar.
- Smart cars are very light and can weigh as little as 1,940 pounds. That’s just 63.5 kilos!