We Purchased a used 94' Turbo, 94K, from a Ford Dealer 2 months ago. The only Volvo on the lot, he was happy to sell it. He said that they changed the filters, and everything else checked out. Clean car, well maintained, engine REALLY snappy. Initially got about 17.5 mpg on the tank of whatever fill up the Ford dealer provided. Daily driving about 40 miles, some city, some expressway 50-75 mph. Got rid of the NAPA oil filter and whatever oil they used, changed to Mobil 1 and Volvo filter, filled up on Shell premium 93 octane and after the first tank and another fill up the mileage consistently showed 22.5 mpg, pretty darn good improvement.

Today I received the K & N filter. I opened up the filter box and found a brand new Napa Gold filter #6113. From above it is perfectly clean. This filter fit in the cavity of the filter box perfectly, too perfectly. It COMPLETELY filled up the air cavity thereby only allowing a contact filtration area of about 4 inches squared. One dirty circle directly over the air intake, the rest totally clean. The filter depth is two and quarter inches.

I put the K & N filter in, about half the depth.

Filled up on another tank of Shell premium. Who knows how high the mileage can go now.

Isn't it more likely that better airflow would deacrease the gas mileage a bit? My reasoning is that fuel is injected based on how much air is entering the combustion chamber. So less air leads to less fuel. (If the FI syistem is workign properly.) So a freer-flowing air filter increases the amount of air getting in, which leads to more fuel being used. And that gets you better performance. Difference shouldn't be horribly dramatic, I don't think.

So there it is: NAPA Gold Air Filters for better gas mileage!! (That part was a joke...I think.)

Tim
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Tim Smith '85 745GLE M46 w/86k

As far as I've seen, they haven't integrated their parts. They just issue wholesale parts from a Volvo dealer like they would have in the first place.

The thing is, why buy a Volvo air filter at wholesale for $18, when you can get a NAPA Gold air filter for $8? I personally don't buy Volvo air filters; why would a dealer?

Most used car buyers would never spring for eight more dollars on a window sticker. "Eight dollars? No way... not on this thing... it's not worth eight dollars to begin with..."

Why would a dealer buy a Volvo part and eat the cost? I mean, it would be nice if they did it, but they don't. At least they took the time and care to change the filter out, which is more than you can say for a lot of used dealers. Most, in fact.
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1992 940 wagon, 72k
make people envious; smile often.

Chris, if you go to the NAPA website and enter the stats for the 94' 940 turbo, the suggested filter is not a NAPA, but a Beck-Arnley. The filter I found in this car is obviously not made for it as it almost totally smothered the system. Because it was new and the environment isn't too bad (Chicago), the filter surfacing area (4" round) was adequate for the time being. As far as the NAPA filter number I have no idea what vehicle it is designed for. I can envision somebody from Ford parts giving the square dimension of the filter area to some goof, and then getting this overwhelming deep filter.

Well, I'm not really defending the lack of intellect, because any village idiot should be able to figure out a filter. Just that it was nice of them to actually replace it. Dealers hardly EVER bother with that kind of thing. If the oil is filthy, they'll change it out, but hardly anything else.

Anyway, enjoy the car.
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1992 940 wagon, 72k
make people envious; smile often.

Something doesn't add up here. Ford owns Volvo. Therefore Volvo = Ford.
WHY are they using NAPA parts when they could be using Ford Volvo parts???
(probably get a better profit margin on them too!)
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George Downs Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Sure Ford owns Volvo, but every dealer is independently owned. A Ford dealer is certainly not getting Volvo parts at wholesale.

Jeff Pierce
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'92 Mercedes 190E (my daily driver), '93 Volvo Turbo Wagon (a family car w/flair), '53 Willys-Overland Pickup (my snow-plow truck/conversation piece)