Where to buy an air filter for a GS500?

**jonshutt** · 17th November 2010, 12:43

Does anyone know what's the cheapest place to buy air filters from? I just checked supercheap autos but they only seemed to have car sizes.

it's for a GS500, and I'm in Wellington

Jon

**nodrog:Me** · 17th November 2010, 13:20

Originally Posted by jonshutt

Does anyone know what's the cheapest place to buy air filters from? I just checked supercheap autos but they only seemed to have car sizes.

it's for a GS500, and I'm in Wellington

Jon

I would probably start looking at a Suzuki shop.

Fanny.

**jonshutt** · 17th November 2010, 13:52

probably right. I know oil filters are easy to get in general motorspares shops, so i thought air filters too....

**molex** · 17th November 2010, 16:02

I wash mine petty good because GS500 air filter are made in fiber not paper!!!

If you insist buy original filter " 13780-01D00 " no restriction, no tunnel inside the filter, full power.

Aftermarket try
Hiflofiltro : www.hiflo.com

**cbfb** · 18th November 2010, 09:22

Freedom Suzuki
06 356 5319
389 Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North
http://www.freedomsuzuki.co.nz/motor...es-suzuki.html

Colemans Suzuki
09 303 1786
Newton, Auckland
http://www.colemans-suzuki.co.nz/content/welcome.aspx

**jonshutt** · 18th November 2010, 15:01

hey thanks for the comments.
now - any advice on how to clean the filter best?

**cbfb** · 18th November 2010, 15:03

Blast it with compressed air. From the outside of the filter not the inside.

**White trash** · 18th November 2010, 15:22

Originally Posted by cbfb

Blast it with compressed air. From the outside of the filter not the inside.

I have it on very good authority that cleaning those type of filters with compressed air is a surefire way to fuck 'em.

**cbfb** · 18th November 2010, 15:34

Originally Posted by White trash

I have it on very good authority that cleaning those type of filters with compressed air is a surefire way to fuck 'em.

Can you give some more details? Maybe I've been doing it wrong.

I just go by the service manual (attached). It does say though as mentioned before that you should spray them from the outside not the inside, otherwise it clogs them up. I've got a GSF250 but it's a similar filter to a GS500, I've read somewhere that they're even interchangable (but it was on the net so might be bollocks).

**Ronin** · 18th November 2010, 15:38

Originally Posted by White trash

I have it on very good authority that cleaning those type of filters with compressed air is a surefire way to fuck 'em.

Tried it huh?

**White trash** · 18th November 2010, 15:51

Originally Posted by cbfb

Can you give some more details? Maybe I've been doing it wrong.

I just go by the service manual (attached). It does say though as mentioned before that you should spray them from the outside not the inside, otherwise it clogs them up. I've got a GSF250 but it's a similar filter to a GS500, I've read somewhere that they're even interchangable (but it was on the net so might be bollocks).

It tears the fillament if you hit it with a really close jet of compressed air. You may not be able to see the damage, but it's doing it. Apparently But then, you're reading this on the net too so it's possibly completely incorrect. Just what I was told by someone in the know. Personally, I'd just spend the 100 bucks on a washable (K&N) filter.

**cbfb** · 18th November 2010, 16:48

Originally Posted by White trash

It tears the fillament if you hit it with a really close jet of compressed air. You may not be able to see the damage, but it's doing it. Apparently But then, you're reading this on the net too so it's possibly completely incorrect. Just what I was told by someone in the know. Personally, I'd just spend the 100 bucks on a washable (K&N) filter.

It does make sense, those fibres are pretty fine and an air gun puts out a fair bit of pressure. I always make sure the nozzle is a fair way off the element but yeah a K&N would prob be the way to go if you've got the cash.

**awa355** · 19th November 2010, 05:49

I owned a GS500. If I used the air gun, it was at low pressure and held well back from the filter. If you start looking at getting an original filter, I would be suprised if Suzuki still stock it. With my 2008 Honda, Blue wing had no parts at all in NZ. I bought parts thru a Sidney based dealer at half the price quoted by the NZ dealer to get bits in from Japan. .

If the local dealer quotes an arm and a leg for a new original part, that may be worth looking at.

**White trash** · 19th November 2010, 07:50

I just priced up a genuine airfilter for my 83 GSX550, $89.00 ex Japan, ten days thankyou very much. K&N make one that'll fit it, not sure what they're worth though, I'll have to llok into it.