Cabin filter Bosch or OEM BMW

It was $100 for the BMW cabin filter. After 20 min of trying to squeeze in to do it, I would say, that $90 was worth it for the cabin air filter.

I have 3 Hondas that use the same cabin filters. Costs me $33 to get Bosch filters.

I do them every 6 months.

Bosch is superior:

Have had my 2015 535i X drive for 3 months now and I love it. Was looking at B58 for a while, and decided to go with the one I have now because it had 80k miles, was in great shape and had good maintenance records.

BMW M240i - it got an oil change, and a cabin filter. Continues to plug along just fine.

Filtro de cabine com carv\u00e3o ativado: 45,00 (pegue o com carv\u00e3o ativado, vale muito a pena, n\u00e3o d\u00e1 cheiro no AC).

Bosch 6081C fancy pants (Hepa) version of the cabin filter is $21 and takes a few minutes to replace, that's $60 saved right there.

I've had to replace the cabin filter 2-3 times because of this problem. At first the smell would go away after replacing the filter, but eventually returns, usually when spring rolls around.

I changed the micro filter, cabin filter, etc.. The smell seems to be strongest with heat set to 78 and when I am slowing down or coming to a stop and the auto engine shut off turns on and off.

Production markings on the side of the filter as shown in the pics above indicate that this is a BMW OEM part. I can’t imagine that Halfords would be installing genuine BMW filters. There’s no way that they changed this.