[Vwdiesel] air filters

[Shalyn Shourds]

Tonight, I got to see a '06 TDI Jetta that Dad recently bought.  A lot of miles, but his wife wanted an automatic to drive around town.  He's been doing some maintenance on it to make sure it's good to go.  Looking at it, it sounded like one of the air lines to or from the intercooler had come off.  Not a huge problem, but another thing for him to take care of.  About that time, I saw the K&N sticker on the intake.  I asked him if someone had put that on there, he said he had.  

I'd heard that the oil on those K&N filters gunks up the MAF.  Any thoughts?  I just put the proper MANN filter in there and called it a day.  

I'm still trying to figure out what possessed him to put that in there.  It's always seemed like the sort of thing you buy if you spend too much time idling around cheap parts stores.  Maybe I need to check on what all he's been doing since he retired........  


-Shalyn