Eyger

Here's a late night posting, if you're bored, continue reading.

Every sunday I work on my car and try to get something done to keep it moving.

Today I replaced my cabin air filter! I haven't done this in oh I don't know, ever. I've had the car three years, never replaced it. Who knows if the previous owner ever replaced it! If they never did then it would have been five years since it was replaced! OM recommends that it be replaced every 12 months.





Next weekend, windshield wipers and battery cleaning!


EDIT: Here's a DIY I wrote as a PM for someone, enjoy!

1) Go to your favorite auto supply store, (I got mine at kragen) walk up to the counter and ask the dude behind the counter "Do you have a cabin air filter in stock for my 2003 Honda Civic LX, (or whatever model/year you have) After he brings it back, pay for it, then tell him "That's right bitch now get into the kitchen and make me a sandwich!"

2) Go home, park your car where ever you want.

3) Go into the passengers side of the car, clean out the glove box.

4) Inside the glove box, you'll see two tabs, one on each side of the box, pop those tabs out, and remove the leg/stopper thing, put it aside.

5) Behind the glove box there is a black plastic cover that snaps on and off, the tab is on the left side of the cover. pop that ish off.

6) After you get the cover off, you'll see another two tabs sticking straight out at you, located on the right side of the square hole that you just uncovered. Pull the tab on the left straight out, it'll remove the filter and the plastic cage thing that is sits in.

7) Go back and find the other tab that's sticking straight out, grab that tab and slide the tab all the way to the left, then pull straight out, it'll remove the second plastic cage.

8) Pull out the old dusty moldy gross air filters, laugh at them, take pictures of them, post them on civicforums, call them dirty bastards, then throw them out.

9) Put the new filters in, make sure they are facing the right way. The "air flow" is printed on the filter itself with an arrow showing which way it goes, (air flow is down.)

10) Then just put it all back together, it's really simple, same things, just in reverse.

11) After all of that, get in the car, turn the air on and bask in the glory that you just installed.

12) Have a cold drink.

lordhelmet

iTrader: (3)

Thats gross. I wonder how much crap has build up in mine.

Eyger

YEah it was gross. I'm glad that I got it replaced. It's crazy easy to replace, and it's super cheap, it's like 13 bucks for the bosch filters.

Oh yeah and now when I turn the air on, it doesn't smell bad.

sniperscout

iTrader: (8)

mine had leaves and junk in it

mickeycivic04

ive seen worst..where theres lint and bugs inside the filters..

Wolfgang5884

iTrader: (3)

Wow, that's nasty!

drunkenmagnum

iTrader: (5)

in the six years I have owned my car, it has never been replaced. I dont even know where it is at.

ronaldo9

iTrader: (6)

I clean mine every year. Very easy to change literally takes 2 mins. No smelly cabin in my car.

2005EM2

iTrader: (7)

wow! I have to check mine! I do check every year though.

Ti71

iTrader: (1)

It's behind the glove compartment.

YuckerDisMe

iTrader: (1)

im gonna need to check it out when i go home. I think its time i change mine.

Tdoan14

lol, i found that funny.

gearbox

iTrader: (95)

i change it every 6 months and its pretty dirty lol with leaves and bugs. the longest i went was a year, and it was full of crap

02BLKCIVIC

iTrader: (8)

mine is real bad!

Haven't changed it ever...

iv looked at em tho

DaddyFatSacks

I had two sets so for a while I just brushed and vacumed the hell out of them. There cheaper now, they were $50!

filipinop1405

iTrader: (6)

NASTY!!!!!!!!!! lol. i need to go check mine...lol!

gearbox

iTrader: (95)

goto napa and get their gold brand filters for $18 pair. they work really well

02BLKCIVIC

iTrader: (8)

no ****^

HonCiv02

i just recently did this as well. both of mine were disgusting. i was actually thinking about spraying them with a freshener to make the car smell really good, but haven't done it yet.

lordhelmet

iTrader: (3)

Tell me how this goes if you ever do it. I've thought about it but never wanted to do it for fear of having some sort of smell in my car forever.

treva..

mine has bugs and leaves in it.
i thought about spraying some air freshener on it too when i change it

HonCiv02

i have a friend who used to spray stuff in his cabin air filter and it made the car smell really good, but it didn't seem to last that long. i wouldn't worry about it staying too long or giving the car a funky odor.

Eyger

Ha ha, i haven't read this since I posted yesterday. This is funny to read about everyone. I remember on several occasions thinking to myself, damn my air condition smells funky. Good thing I got it taken care of. Smell is gone.

Ha I can just see some one getting one of those tree air fresheners and shoving it into the filter to make is smell good.

mickeycivic04

wow they sell it at mi work for like $70 haha

2005EM2

iTrader: (7)

Hey Eyger.

How's the progress on your car???

04 Honda Civic

iTrader: (2)

ditto along with them boomarang shaped things that fall from trees u know what im talking about lol

dswami1

u changed both of them rite? there are 2 filters side by side... when i first did it, i forgot to change the second one, untill i realized that there were actually 2

Eyger

Thanks for asking, I appreciate the support. it's goin, little by little. Christian Calim just asked me the same thing, I'm getting the front bumper on very very soon (maybe within a month.) Then after that, 2k high build, then block. I still have a lot of things I have to buy. When I get something good going, I'll definitely post it all up here.

What about you? Got anything goin on with your ride?

Eyger

Ha ha, yeah I was confused when I bought it in the store, but figured it out at home. The other one was just as dirty as the first!

Mr_Plenty

iTrader: (3)

i change mine a few months ago, it wasnt that bad just full of leaves, no bugs and it was really blackkkk