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11744 B Hwy 15 501 N Chapel Hill, NC 27517 | 919.942.1023

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Replace Your Engine Air Filter At Brown's Automotive

Your engine also needs clean air to burn the fuel – and it needs a lot.  In fact, a typical vehicle needs about 216,000 gallons of air for every tank of gas.  All that air passes thro...
Published on: Feb 09, 2025

Replace Your Engine Air Filter At Brown's Automotive

{{ image('http://image.listpipe.com/napasa-air-filter.jpg') }} When driving around Chapel Hill, your vehicle engine needs clean air to burn the fuel – and it needs a lot. In fact, a typical veh...
Published on: Feb 13, 2024

Simple Answers from Brown's Automotive: Engine Air Filter

{{ image('MzQ5') }} Question:What's the harm in putting off replacing my engine air filter a little longer? Brown's Automotive Answer:That's a fair question from Chapel Hill drivers because the harm...
Published on: Jul 20, 2023

Simple Answers from Brown's Automotive: Engine Air Filter

Question What’s the harm in putting off replacing my engine air filter a little longer? Answer That’s a fair question because the harm takes a while to manifest.  Let’s take ...
Published on: Oct 28, 2021

Engine Air Filter Basics for Chapel Hill

Today in the Brown's Automotive car care blog, we want to talk about your engine air filter. That's the filter that cleans the air before it's burned in your engine. Chapel Hill residents wonder how o...
Published on: Jun 14, 2021

MAF Sensor and Engine Air Filter

Today's Brown's Automotive post focuses on the importance of protecting your mass air flow sensor or MAF. Air and fuel are mixed together to be burned in your engine. The amount is controlled by how h...
Published on: Feb 23, 2021

Clean Air For Your Engine Engine Air Filters In Chapel Hill

We’ve all been in for an oil change and told that our engine air filter’s dirty.  Here’s what goes into the determination of when to change the filter:  First, your owner&r...
Published on: Oct 31, 2020

MAF Filter

Air and fuel are mixed together to be burned in your engine. You request how much of each you need by how hard you press on the accelerator, by going up or down a hill or by how much you are carrying ...
Published on: Jul 15, 2018