The facts.
DescriptionThe whole story▼
Triumph never asked the buyer of an 800 Tiger to decide once and for all. The platform left the factory in two specifications, one aimed at sealed roads, one on wire wheels with longer travel and an appetite for loose ground, and both of them breathed through the same airbox and the same element. The intake was drawn up for the average of the two. That is a sensible way to build a motorcycle and an awkward way to own one: the air an engine swallows is chosen by the surface under the front wheel, not by the badge on the flank. The filter medium is where that choice finally gets made — by the rider, years after the sale.
Key Features
- Special non-woven polyester rated at 7 microns, the finest medium in the Sprint Filter range
- 560 l/m²/sec of rated flow — the deliberate far end of the trade, not an oversight
- Dry from end to end: no oil or impregnation to travel on to sensor and throttle bodies
- The pleat pack carries around double the media area of rival performance elements
- Sits where the original element sat: series airbox untouched, nothing cut, fuelling left alone
- Serviced with an air line instead of a purchase; cover runs two years from the day of sale
Four media, one housing
Sprint Filter builds this element in several materials, and the figures make the logic plain. The standard P08 weave holds an 80 µm aperture and flows 5,050 l/m²/sec. The water-repellent P037 sits at 37 µm and 4,500. The P14 non-woven is 14 µm and 1,800. The T12 here is 7 µm and 560. Read down that list and the same thing happens at every step: retention climbs, flow falls. It is a trade, not a ranking. A T12 is not a better P08, it is a different answer to a different question, and the question it answers is dust: dry ruts, gravel passes, the plume behind the bike ahead.
Which end of it your Tiger lives on
An 800 triple that spends its year on tarmac, motorway stages included, is better served by the P08. Nothing about sealed roads justifies giving up that much flow, and the standard weave already outperforms oiled cotton on retention. The case for the T12 begins where the surface stops being sealed, and the machine is ridden the way the wire-wheeled version was built for. Be equally honest about the other half: no drop-in element makes a standard 800 faster. What this one changes is what gets past it, and there it is the strictest answer in the catalogue.
Care and cleaning
The PM124T12 is serviced from the clean face outwards with an air line, pushing dust back out the way it came in. After genuinely dirty work, wash it in lukewarm water with a mild washing-up liquid and rinse until the water runs clear. Let it dry in open air only — no heat gun, no oven, no flame — and refit it dry. There is no oiling stage at any point. The maintenance sheet sits in the Downloads tab.
Fitment & Compatibility
Made for the Triumph Tiger 800 of 2011 to 2015. The same element serves three listings in this catalogue, reaching across the 800 Tigers to the end of production in 2019. The ranges overlap, so check yours in the Fitment tab before ordering.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Triumph Tiger (2011–2015)
- Triumph Tiger XC800 (2011–2019)
- Triumph Tiger XCx / XR / XRX (2015–2019)
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