The facts.
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The Tuareg shares its parallel twin with the RS660 and the Tuono 660, and it does not share their air filter. That surprises people often enough to be worth putting first. A filter is drawn around a housing, not around an engine: the same twin sits in a sports frame with a low, tightly packaged airbox in one machine and under a tall tank with an entirely different intake layout in the other, and the panel that seals one aperture will not seal the other. SM240S is the element specified for the Tuareg, and the engine badge is no help in choosing it.
Key Features
- Single-layer dry polyester weave, filtration rated at 80 µm
- Rated throughput of 5,050 l/m²/sec — the standard grade for road and track use
- Threads from 22 µm in diameter upwards; that figure describes the yarn, not the gaps between it
- Never oiled, at delivery or afterwards, so nothing can migrate into the intake
- Roughly twice the filtering area of a typical performance element inside the standard panel
- Direct replacement in the series airbox, backed by two years of warranty from purchase
Housing first, engine second
Reading a catalogue by engine size is the most common way to order the wrong panel. The reliable route runs the other way: identify the model and its year, take the part number that combination points to, and check it against the element that comes out. On this machine that path ends at SM240S, and it ends there for every Tuareg of the 2021 to 2026 range regardless of trim. The number is what the specification hangs on; the model name and the capacity are only the way to reach it.
What the standard grade offers a travel enduro
Sprint Filter publishes 93.13 per cent retention of 100-micron particles for this material, against 76.42 per cent for a four-layer oiled cotton element — the comparison that matters most, since oiled cotton is the usual alternative. What it does not offer is more power. An element inside an unaltered airbox leaves a series Tuareg producing what the factory certified, and any listing that suggests otherwise is describing a wish. The dependable benefits are a low intake resistance, the fact that cleaning returns it to that value rather than part of the way, and a panel that is washed instead of bought again.
Care and cleaning
Compressed air blown from the clean side outward is the routine service: it lifts the load back out through the face that collected it. When a dusty trip leaves more than air will shift, lukewarm water with a mild detergent finishes it; rinse the panel thoroughly and let it dry completely in moving air. Never dry it with heat or a flame, and never treat the weave with oil — it goes back in dry. The Downloads tab carries the maintenance sheet.
Fitment & Compatibility
Specified for the airbox of the Aprilia Tuareg 660 across model years 2021 to 2026. This part number is drawn against that single machine, which is shown with its model years in the Fitment tab.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Aprilia Tuareg (2021–2026)
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