No Fuel Filter On 2003 Model Year?
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Most modern fuel injected cars don't have a serviceable fuel filter.
Arrow points in the direction of the fuel flow. Install the filter with the arrow with it pointing at the section of fuel line leading to the engine.
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Okay, this is news to me. Pardon my ignorance...but care to enlighten me on how that works? Is there a fuel filter IN the fuel tank now that's supposed to last for eleventy billion miles or whatever? Or has the need for a fuel filter been eliminated (which I seriously doubt)? Don't mean to sound like a smartass...I'm genuinely curious on this, given that the vehicles I own are of 2003 vintage, so obviously the technology has evolved since then.
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Each manufacturer has just slowly done away with them. Now you have fuel pump "modules" where the pump, strainer, sending unit, filter, and regulator are all one assembly. Part of it is because everyone has gone returnless (using pulse-width-modulated pumps) and most have gone direct injection (with camshaft driven high pressure pumps turning the 50psi or so of pressure supplied by the electric pump into 1000+ psi).
I once in a great while still see a serviceable filter on Fords (but nothing past 2015 or so), but other than that, if it isn't diesel, it doesn't have one.
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Those are actually making a comeback.
The outcry from customers when they had a blowout or a large puncture that the "inflator kit" wouldn't seal was so large that there are now new compact spare designs showing up in trunks using alloy wheels instead of steel, and smaller jacks and lighter tools. Hyundai and Kia were two of the biggest to reverse course, even the base model Rio/Accent is equipped with a spare again more often than not.
