K&N panel filter for 130 tdi?

[wafers]

My 2003 A4 tdi 130 is due a service and I'm toying with the idea of paying a bit more for a K&N panel filter instead of a standard one. Anyone bothered with them, and is it really going to be worth the extra? My idea was that it doesn't cost a fortune, lasts the lifetime of the car, and helps it to breathe slightly more easily....
Ideas? Cheers!

 

[Avant4me]

Ditto

 

[MarkWizard]

I have one fitted - the old one was filthy so I guess any new filter was going to be an improvement!

Have read loads of reviews testing one against the other and the K&N always seems to do well

 

[will89]

I have one too!

 

[AudiLeon]

Personally, I'd go for a non oiled panel filter with the audi maf being so brittle.

 

[wafers]

Blackquat, by non oiled panel filter, I assume you mean something like the k&n I mentioned in my first post? Whats this about the maf being fragile?

 

[alpesh26]

Personally, I'd go for a non oiled panel filter with the audi maf being so brittle.

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