Sprint Filter P08 Air Filter for Road & Track – Yamaha Force 2.0 (2022–2026) PM206S

A scooter that feels flat sends its owner down a list: spark plug, drive belt, rollers, fuel, valve clearances. The intake is the cheapest branch on that list to rule out — provided ruling it out does not mean buying a part before you know whether it was the cause. That is a small but genuine argument for the Sprint Filter PM206S, a dry polyester weave element filtering at 80 microns with a rated 5,050 l/m²/sec. It comes out, gets looked at, gets blown clean and goes back in, which turns a diagnostic step into a ten-minute job that can be repeated as often as you like.

Key Features

• Woven dry polyester in a single layer, filtering at 80 microns
• Threads measuring from 22 microns across — the fibre, not the aperture
• Rated at 5,050 l/m²/sec, the medium Sprint Filter list for road and track use
• Approximately twice the filter area of other performance filters, in the standard box
• Takes the place of the original element with no modification and no remap
• Two-year warranty from purchase, with a service life matched to the machine

Ruling the intake out for free

With a paper cartridge the inspection carries an awkward cost. Once it is out and has been handled, most owners replace it rather than refit it, so looking is never quite free — and that is enough to make people skip the step altogether. A washable element removes the disincentive: the check costs an air line and a few minutes, and the element is in the same condition afterwards as before. Over the years that is the difference between an intake whose state is known and one that is assumed.

What the P08 does, and what it does not

It filters at 80 microns and flows a rated 5,050 l/m²/sec, in the original housing, with no change to fuelling. It does not make the scooter faster: a 155 cm³ engine with standard transmission, exhaust and gearing accelerates the way it did before, and any description suggesting otherwise is selling something. The useful outcome is an intake restriction that is low and that can be returned toward that figure indefinitely, instead of climbing between services. Where the roads involved are dusty rather than merely busy, the same airbox takes the 14-micron P14, which holds back more and flows less — one property exchanged for another.

Care and cleaning

Direct compressed air at the clean face so the dust travels back out through the dirty one. When that stops being sufficient, wash the element in lukewarm water with a mild detergent and rinse it until the water runs clean, then leave it to dry in moving air — never near a heater and never over a flame — and refit it dry. Oil plays no part in any of it. The manufacturer's maintenance sheet for the PM206S is in the Downloads tab.

Fitment & Compatibility

Drawn for the Yamaha Force 2.0 of 2022 to 2026, replacing the original element in the unmodified airbox. This code is listed for that single machine; the Fitment tab shows the entry.