Changing your car’s filters regularly is a ‘must’ if you want your beloved car to run like a Champion®. Clogged filters affect performance, with a noticeable loss of power, dirty smoke, oil light warning, and even potential engine failure.

A competitive range of cabin, air, oil, and fuel filters for optimised engine performance from Champion® is available locally from Federal-Mogul Motorparts, a leading global supplier of automotive products and services to both global manufacturers and servicers/ of vehicles and equipment in a range of industry sectors.

In terms of cabin filters, Champion® offers a comprehensive range with a 92% coverage of the European car parc. Developed according to the most stringent OE requirements, these cabin filters guarantee optimum performance, providing protection against not only fine dust, but also against pollens, road dust, abraded particles, soot, bacteria, industrial dusts, and other respirable ultra-fine particles. A quality cabin filter can keep up to 98% of all dirt, dust, and allergens out of a vehicles interior. This is critical, and plays a crucial role in ensuring the health and comfort of the vehicle’s occupants.

Apart from the health benefits, a new cabin filter maximises the airflow in the A/C heating system, resulting in better performance, reduced fuel consumption, and no odd smells in the vehicle for extended periods. An adequately functioning cabin filter also extends the lifespan of the cabin blower, which means optimal window defogging for increased safety for both drivers and passengers.

A clogged air filter impacts engine performance, the environment, and will likely result in engine damage. Champion® provides the perfect OE-matching quality replacement parts to avoid these potentially dangerous issues, Federal Mogul Motorparts Technical Advisor Albertus Steyn highlights. The Champion® filter range offers filter solutions for over 92% of the European Union car parc.

“Changing the air filter keeps your engine safe, clean, and high-performing,” Steyn comments. To maintain maximum power, a new filter ensures that the air flowing into the engine is sufficiently clean for optimal fuel and air mixture. A new filter also protects the airflow by avoiding excessive quantities of fuel being injected. “This is the best way to avoid black exhaust smoke, which is the result of incomplete fuel combustion,” Steyn comments.

In terms of engine protection, a new air filter prevents unfiltered particles from entering the engine, thereby preventing potential breakdown or damage. “The main issue is that a new air filter equates to a safe and protected engine,” Steyn reiterates. In addition, it reduces fuel consumption by limiting choke effects and particle detachments. By maintaining engine pressure at the correct level, the engine will keep running clean, providing the necessary data for the sensors.

Champion® also offers a competitive range of oil filters for petrol and diesel applications. These filters are designed to lock out harmful contaminants, ensure a continuous oil flow, maintain the lubrication capability of the oil at all times, and keep the oil clean, for maximum efficiency during the vehicle’s service intervals.

To protect the most important components of the fuel system of both petrol and diesel engines, Champion® has a competitive range of fuel filters that offer the same performance as their OE counterparts. This assists in preventing power loss, damage, and bad starting properties due to contaminated fuel. The sensitivity of modern injection systems means that even the smallest particles can cause problems, due to the small tolerances of the moving parts of pumps and injectors. “Therefore, it is essential that only high-quality filters are installed in any fuel system,” Steyn concludes.