Can I install a cold air intake on my 2010 Toyota Highlander? If so, what is the best one to buy and where from? Thanks!
Cold air intakes are relics of the 1960s and 1970s, when it was common practice to draw air from above the engine. Drawing it from outside the engine compartment was a big improvement in those days. Your 2010 highlander already draws air from outside the engine compartment except when the engine is trying to warm up. There is nothing to be gained by spending money for an inferior intake that prevents your engine from warming up as quickly. Under ordinary driving conditions there is exactly zero power gain from a cold air intake.
Dont do it you will get the warranty canceled by toyota for midifications. you cannot change the intake or the exhaust system until after the warranty expires. Those cold air filters have been proven time and again not to deliver what they promise. please contact your trusted mechanic before doing anything to your truck. Power chips, cold air filters are nothing but expensive trash that does not improve anything, and worse are expensive. you can buy a lot of gas for 500 to six hundred bucks.
THAT IS WRONG!!! You can buy a cold air intake and still retain the warranty. Toyota TRD sells the intake for your highlander which you can easily get and it comes with 12month or 12K warranty. Best place to find one though would be Ebay so you can get it cheaper. I have one on my 07 Tundra that gave my V8 up to 18 horsepower which is alot and you can feel the quicker response.
