{"product_id":"sprint-filter-t12-air-filter-bmw-f-800-gs","title":"Sprint Filter T12 Air Filter for Off-Road \u0026 Extreme – BMW F 800 GS (2023–2026) PM188T12","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverything around this filter is fixed by law. The airbox of a current F 800 GS is not a length of ducting; it is a certified part of the machine, shaped for intake noise and signed off together with the fuelling and the exhaust, which is why the sensible answer to dusty air is a panel inside the standard box rather than a cone on the end of a hose. Machines in this class attract a good deal of aftermarket attention. The medium inside the box is the one place in the intake where a change stays inside the specification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpecial non-woven polyester, used dry, with a 7-micron filtration rating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRated airflow 560 l\/m²\/sec — the deliberate cost of the finest medium on offer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReplaces the original element in the sealed series airbox; nothing is drilled, spaced or reprogrammed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree of oil throughout, so the intake sensors stay clean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoughly twice the filtering area of a typical performance element\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRegenerated with a compressor instead of binned, and covered for two years from the purchase date\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eInside the box, with nothing else touched\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn element swap leaves no trace outside the airbox lid. The snorkel, the plenum volume and the resonators that give the machine its approved intake note all stay exactly as BMW tooled them, the map is untouched, and the original panel can go back in on an afternoon. That is worth more on an off-road-biased twin than it sounds: the parts of the intake people are tempted to open up are the parts that were engineered against a noise limit, and opening them changes the character of the whole tract. Fitting the PM188T12 changes one variable — the material the air passes through — and leaves the rest of BMW's work standing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe number this costs\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing straight about it: closing a medium down costs flow, always. The T12 filters at 7 microns and carries a rated 560 l\/m²\/sec against the 80 microns and 5,050 of the standard P08 — about a ninth of the air across the same cloth area, the widest gap between any two media Sprint Filter sells. That is a trade, not a promotion: finer is not better, it is stricter, and stricter is what a machine ridden on gravel roads and dry tracks actually needs. What it will not do is make a standard F 800 GS feel stronger, because an element sits inside an intake rather than around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCare and cleaning\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eServicing is a compressor job. Working from the clean side outward, blow the loading back out of the mat the way it entered; nothing is scrubbed and nothing is oiled afterwards. Where a hard week has packed more in than air will lift, wash the element in lukewarm water with a mild detergent and rinse until it runs clear. Drying is the step to respect: air only, however long it takes, never a heat source or a flame, and never refitted while damp. Sprint Filter's own maintenance sheet is filed in the Downloads tab.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFitment \u0026amp; Compatibility\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the BMW F 800 GS of 2023 to 2026, in the standard airbox with no modification around it. This part number covers eleven listings in all, spread across BMW, Kove and Voge — the full set is in the Fitment tab.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sprint Filter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53532092039434,"sku":"PM188T12","price":5975000.0,"currency_code":"LBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/7831\/0410\/files\/PM188T12_4e482018-be11-4508-903b-4ffd2d46b69f.png?v=1787141831","url":"https:\/\/inter-pace.com\/en-lb\/products\/sprint-filter-t12-air-filter-bmw-f-800-gs","provider":"Inter-Pace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}