Had an interesting problem recently...
Canadian winter is coming around so I've started to use the heater a lot more. Thing is... the heater wasn't as strong as I remembered from last year. Odd. After some more experimenting, I found that the heat is perfectly good when using recirculate. This narrowed down the problem to just the intake (the big HEPA filters in the frunk area). I removed it, ran the heat with no filters, and it's perfect. I cleaned the filters (they had a bunch of dandelions stuck on them) with compressed air. Thought it'd be fixed. Put everything back in. Nope... The heat wasn't going. Then I tried with only the top filters (the one without the plastic cage housing thing). And the heat works.
Basically, the HEPA filters are choking the intake. I can't survive without heat right now so I'm currently running just the top filters (yes I know it'll bounce around but I can't do anything else).
Questions...
1. Is it normal for HEPA filters to get so restricted airflow in a year? Ontario had really bad air quality this year with the forrest fires I guess? Still, it seems a bit much for it to be completely dead within a year...
2. Is there any way to "blow out" these filters? I used compressed air and nothing. I believe these aren't washable but not 100% sure...
3. Tesla quoted $300~ for this job. BASENOR sells these filters for $90 on Amazon. It takes 10 minutes to install. Is there any reason not to use the BASENOR ones?
Thanks!
Canadian winter is coming around so I've started to use the heater a lot more. Thing is... the heater wasn't as strong as I remembered from last year. Odd. After some more experimenting, I found that the heat is perfectly good when using recirculate. This narrowed down the problem to just the intake (the big HEPA filters in the frunk area). I removed it, ran the heat with no filters, and it's perfect. I cleaned the filters (they had a bunch of dandelions stuck on them) with compressed air. Thought it'd be fixed. Put everything back in. Nope... The heat wasn't going. Then I tried with only the top filters (the one without the plastic cage housing thing). And the heat works.
Basically, the HEPA filters are choking the intake. I can't survive without heat right now so I'm currently running just the top filters (yes I know it'll bounce around but I can't do anything else).
Questions...
1. Is it normal for HEPA filters to get so restricted airflow in a year? Ontario had really bad air quality this year with the forrest fires I guess? Still, it seems a bit much for it to be completely dead within a year...
2. Is there any way to "blow out" these filters? I used compressed air and nothing. I believe these aren't washable but not 100% sure...
3. Tesla quoted $300~ for this job. BASENOR sells these filters for $90 on Amazon. It takes 10 minutes to install. Is there any reason not to use the BASENOR ones?
Thanks!