Cabin filter at 20,000 km: the one Hyderabad traffic chews up fastest

Everyone in the group talks DCT fluid and brake fluid, fair enough, but the climate control air filter quietly gets forgotten and it's the one doing the hardest work in our dust and traffic.

Kia's own manual puts the normal change at 20,000 km or 24 months, repeating at every 20k after that, and it flags shorter intervals for dusty conditions, which basically describes any Hyderabad arterial road in peak hour. You can read the schedule yourself here: https://www.kia.com/content/dam/kia2/in/en/content/seltos-manual/topics/chapter8_4.html

I keep mine on the earlier side rather than wait for the AC to start smelling musty or the airflow to drop, it's a cheap part compared to everything else on that 20k/40k service sheet.

Does your advisor bring this one up on their own, or do you have to ask for it every time like with the sunroof drains?