The facts.
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Most people judge an air filter by looking at it. Pull it out, see how grey it has gone, decide from that whether there is life left in it. The habit was learned on paper panels and it transfers badly to this element, because a nonwoven does not display its load. What it has caught is inside it, distributed through the thickness of the mat, and the face you are staring at reports only a fraction.
Key Features
- Dry special nonwoven filtering at 14 microns, with a rated flow of 1,800 litres per square metre per second
- Real depth to the material, so the load is held within it instead of displayed on one face
- Around twice the filtering area of a normal performance element, inside the unaltered series airbox
- Replaces the paper panel directly — no modification, no remap, nothing to adapt
- Never oiled, so the only thing on it is whatever the road put there
- Serviceable with compressed air for the bike's lifetime; two years of warranty from purchase
The face is not the report
On a paper element the dirt gathers where you can see it, which is why the eyeball test ever worked. Here the material carries its catch at several depths, so a mat that looks lightly marked may be holding a good deal, while an evenly grey one still has plenty of working life ahead. Roughly double the area flattens the picture further: the same load spread over more surface simply looks like less. None of that is a defect. It only means the surface has stopped being the instrument.
What to use instead
Two things, and neither costs anything. The first is conditions: a summer of gravel drives and field roads loads an element that a summer of wet motorway does not, and you already know which one you rode. The second is routine — clean it whenever the airbox is open for some other reason, since with a washable element that costs time rather than a part. Keep expectations in the right place while you are in there, too: a drop-in filter does not make a standard ZT 350-T noticeably stronger, and this medium spent flow in order to filter finer, not the reverse.
Care and cleaning
An air line does the work: aim at the clean face and blow outward, so the load leaves through the side it came in by. Greasy contamination needs lukewarm water with a mild detergent instead, then a rinse until nothing further comes away. Drying is by ambient moving air alone, never by heat or flame, and the SM277P14 is refitted with the material completely dry and nothing added to it. The maintenance sheet sits in the Downloads tab.
Fitment & Compatibility
Zontes ZT 350-T, model years 2020 to 2026. Eight further Zontes machines take this element as well, the 250 of 2019 to 2021 and the 310s of 2021 to 2023 among them. Nine entries, a single code.
DownloadsOwner's manual · brochure▼
FitmentWhich bikes this fits▼
- Zontes ZT 250-R (2019–2021)
- Zontes ZT 310-R (2021–2023)
- Zontes ZT 310-T (2021–2023)
- Zontes ZT 310-X (2021–2023)
- Zontes ZT 350-R (2020–2026)
- Zontes ZT 350-T (2020–2026)
- Zontes ZT 350-X (2020–2026)
- Zontes ZT 350-GK (2020–2026)
- Zontes ZT 350-V (2020–2026)
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