Of all the Chondas I have had through here I have only seen one dirty air filter and that was on a motor that arrived here with a bunch of mowers and it also had a big hole in the side.Looked like it had done a lot of work. Obviously all these mowers do very little work before some component fails and the mowers get chucked out. I have never tried to even buy a new filter for them, can't say I have ever actually seen them for sale. From what I find, the motors themselves are probably not that bad, it is just a small component fails and then it is not worth the owner getting it fixed. Many of them are on the small 16 inch bases and I very rarely get a catcher with them so I usually don't look at them, but the pile is growing so I have to decide what I am going to do with them. I might give them a try on some of the bigger bases I have here that had Briggs on them to see how they go, nothing to loose, and my mower pile is certainly reducing, I can see gaps so I can walk around now. LOL
