I found a round brown filter in my driveway when I drove back home after running errands.
Is there any chance this thing fell off my car?
I have a mechanic appointment booked next week for regular service and wonder if I’m safe just driving around until then.
It’s not even a car filter. Definitely not from your HRV. Somebody might have thrown a vacuum cleaner filter nearby.
Look at the owners manual and see if your air box is good they don’t just jump out . But like a lot of people said it looks so big it’s probably from a shop vacuum.
Did you open your hood and check?
I have no idea what to look for. I’m not sure I’d be able to ascertain if anything was missing.
What kind of air filter does your vehicle use?
I can’t know for certain, but judging by the comment OP posted, I don’t think they’re in a position to say.
That, and I doubt they’ve gone around modding
I had a look at the user manual and was able to confirm via YouTube video that the HRV filter is very different. Flat and rectangular. What I found seems to be a garden variety shop vac filter.
Flat rectangular filters are the most common on cars,
Bo reasonable answer! Yikes grumpy the clown…that’s definitely a Shop Vac filter. Ask you’re neighbors if they lost a filter. Pretty damn reasonable too me
The most fucked up shop vac filter I’ve ever seen God DAMN
Isn’t that a k&n filter?
no thats a vacuum filter
Shop-Vac.
Smh
Free trash can!
Yes. It is totally possible it fell from your car…if you ran over a shop vac
Minimal chance that’s your one, looks like what a shop vac has, though that style also sees use in heavy machinery
Cold air intake filter
OP, it looks like you’ve got your answer (wet/dry vacuum filter). But I just want you to know, it’s unlikely (essentially impossible) for a filter to “fall off of a car”. The car’s engine filter is encased in a plastic enclosure that would have to be taken apart. This filter is in the engine bay. It also is flat, not round like this (normally).
The only other air filter is the cabin filter. It’s even more difficult to get to and is inside the car (usually behind the glove box). It’s also flat, not round.
Thanks so much! If I ever find myself in the situation of discovering another mystery filter under my car, I won’t immediately panic that the car is falling apart.
You’re holding that filter the same way I hold my turds when I take out of the toilet bowl to dispose of them in the bin.
That’s mister hankey the christmas poo.
