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As you know, the key to the longevity of any car is proper and timely maintenance. The reluctance of car owners to spend money on replacing even the cheapest consumables can later lead to huge problems.
So, an experienced auto mechanic warned that if you don't change the fuel filter in the car worth a couple of hundred hryvnias, you may face the need for complex and expensive engine repairs, writes "Tvoya mashina". As you know, the main function of the filter is to collect fuel debris. Accumulating pollution in itself, it becomes clogged over time and limits the supply of fuel to the engine. As a result, it becomes difficult to start the engine, its power drops. In addition, the effectiveness of a clogged filter is reduced to a minimum, due to which debris and dirt from the fuel can with a high probability get inside the engine, which will lead to its breakdown.
There is also a possibility of clogging of the fuel injectors and failure of the fuel pump. Fixing all these problems can cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of hryvnias, which is much more expensive than replacing a "penny" part. For each car, recommendations for replacing the filter may be different, but in general it is considered that it should be changed somewhere every 20 - 000 kilometers.
