
The facts.
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On a naked bike the rider breathes the same air as the engine, a short distance in front of the intake. That makes the Z500 unusually easy to read. If the visor needs wiping after every ride and a fine grey film settles on the tank, the airbox has been working through the same load. PM164P14 is the element for a Z500 that comes home like that often: a dry nonwoven rated at 14 µm and catalogued for dusty conditions, holding back a finer fraction than the 80 µm woven panel lets through.
Key Features
- Dry technical nonwoven, filtration rated at 14 µm
- 1,800 l/m²/sec of rated flow: more held back, less air passed
- Fine dust caught through the depth of the mat
- No oil before fitting or after cleaning, so nothing reaches sensors downstream
- Fits the unaltered Z500 airbox in the paper panel's place, without a remap
- Roughly double the working area of a conventional element; two-year warranty
Reading the signs correctly
One dusty ride is not a reason to change medium. The signal is repetition: the same film after the commute, every week of a dry season, or a regular route past quarries, fields or building sites. Fine dust is the part that matters, and it is also the part that a filter surface hides longest. The visor shows it earlier. When that pattern holds for months, the finer mat earns its place. When it turns up twice a year, the woven element remains the better choice. A naked bike also gets ridden through that air at low speed more often than a faired one, in town and on short local runs, which is when the intake spends longest in the dust kicked up by the traffic ahead.
The trade, and when to refuse it
Retention costs flow: 1,800 l/m²/sec here against 5,050 for the P08 of the same shape, and the nonwoven loads sooner. On clean roads, or on a Z500 that does track days, keep the P08, because sustained high revs are where the lower flow can start to matter and a faster-loading mat shortens the interval. The P14 costs roughly three quarters of the woven panel, which is no argument either way. Neither medium makes a standard Z500 noticeably stronger. The P14 simply keeps more fine dust out of the engine.
Care and cleaning
Blow PM164P14 through with compressed air from the clean side and work across the whole panel rather than holding the nozzle in one place. For a wash, use lukewarm water with a little mild detergent and rinse well. Dry it in moving air only, never with heat or a flame, and refit it fully dry; a nonwoven holds water longer than it appears to. The maintenance sheet is in the Downloads tab.
Fitment & Compatibility
For the Kawasaki Z500 of 2024–2026 in the series airbox. This P14 is shared by thirteen machines, the Ninja 500 and Z500, the 400 cc Ninja, Z and ZX-4R models, the 250s, the hybrids, the Eliminator and the Bimota KB399 among them. See the Fitment tab for every entry.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Bimota KB399 (2026)
- Kawasaki Ninja 250 (2018–2026)
- Kawasaki ZX-25R (2020–2026)
- Kawasaki EX 400 - Ninja 400 (2018–2026)
- Kawasaki Z400 (2018–2026)
- Kawasaki ZX-4R (2023–2026)
- Kawasaki ZX4RR (2023–2026)
- Kawasaki Ninja 7 Hybrid (2024–2026)
- Kawasaki Z7 Hybrid (2024–2026)
- Kawasaki Eliminator (2024–2026)
- Kawasaki EX 500 - Ninja 500 (2018–2026)
- Kawasaki Ninja 500 (2024–2026)
- Kawasaki Z500 (2024–2026)
- Bimota KB399 (2026) · own page →
- Kawasaki Eliminator 500 (2024–2026) · own page →
- Kawasaki EX 500 - Ninja 500 (2018–2026) · own page →
- Kawasaki Ninja 7 Hybrid 450 (2024–2026) · own page →
- Kawasaki Ninja 250 (2018–2026) · own page →
- Kawasaki Ninja 400 (2018–2026) · own page →
- Kawasaki Z7 Hybrid 450 (2024–2026) · own page →
- Kawasaki Z400 (2018–2026) · own page →
- Kawasaki ZX-4 RR (2023–2026) · own page →
- Kawasaki ZX-4R 400 (2023–2026) · own page →
- Kawasaki ZX-25R (2020–2026) · own page →
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