To change a car’s air filter, ensure the engine is cool, locate the air filter housing, remove the old filter, clean any debris inside the housing, and install the new filter. This video tutorial can help find the location of the cabin AC air filter on Nissan Models like 2017 Nissan Rogue 2018 Nissan. The cabin air filter helps trap and eliminate pollutants from the outside air before entering the car’s cabin, ensuring fresh air inside the vehicle.
Replacing the cabin air filter is an easy maintenance task that can be performed at home within a few minutes. It helps protect your lungs by keeping the air inside your vehicle clean. Many recent Toyota cars have an air filter for the air that comes into the cabin, reducing dust and debris entering through the ventilation system.
The exact process for changing a cabin air filter varies from car to car, but the individual steps are broadly similar. Follow this step-by-step guide and do some research on your car specifically. This filtration process ensures that the air brought into your vehicle’s cabin is almost completely free of allergens, pollutants, and debris, making the air you breathe.
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Yes thank you! I went to a Honda dealership and told them some unpleasant smell is coming out of my ventilation system. (Fyi: I keep my 2019 Honda Si super clean inside and outside). Anyways, they told me to go to Canadian Tire to buy some product I spray into the vents. Needles to say the odour is still there now it’s a double odour of spray and something unpleasant. I have faith that changing the cabin filter will make a complete difference. What baffles me is that a technician would not recommend such a simple thing. Unbelievable!!!! Thanks for your article! 🙂
just found out that cabin air filters need to be mounted in a specific direction of flow. Didn’t know about this and recently did mine (which was a complete pain in the a*se), so the chances I installed it backwards are 50/50. Do I really really need to check it, or it can wait until next replacement? reaching the filter is very cumbersome in my car, I have to take the glove box, air ducts and blower out of the way, what takes me a solid hour to do (and then another hour to put it back). Thanks.
I dutifully change my filter yearly. Each time I do I have to refresh my brain by pulling out my old install notes and reminding myself about arrow orientation. This is for a 2009 Hyundai Tucson. The ‘closest’ instructional article by Fram on their site is for the 2008 Kia Sportage. Fair enough. Except that the audio content they offer says to have the filter arrow facing UP. WRONG. This is completely at variance with what they are SHOWING in the article. Particularly when, later in the same article, the arrow on the filter housing is clearly shown facing DOWN. Sure it’s simple, but not with errors like this by Fram. I wish I’d had your article three years ago. It’s bookmarked. Thanks.
Thanks man nice article I’m a mechanic also and to see some of these articles on YouTube alot of them do not show the proper way of air flow. And believe it or not I saw some articles people facing the arrow the wrong way and one guy saying you have to disconnect the battery 🤣 not kidding but any way be safe .✌🇺🇸
Cabin air filters can do more harm than good. I don’t live in a hermetically sealed environment, and I have minor allergies to pollen. I don’t have house AC, and I live in a slightly rural area; the windows are often open. In my car, the windows are open as much as possible and are closed only when it’s too hot (use AC) or too cold (use the heater). None of my earlier cars had cabin air filters, and I did not have problems. A few decades ago, car manufacturers started installing cabin air filters. These are great, especially if you live in a dusty place or you have moderate to sever allergies, in which case you probably live in a closed environment. The big problem I have with cabin air filters is that car air systems do not properly keep out vermin including deer mice. In my later cars with cabin air filters, the mice love to nest, pee, and poop on top of the cabin air filters. With Hantavirus, this is a dangerous situation. For me, it’s better to remove the cabin air filter than to breath Hantaviruses. Of course, I still have to eliminate mice in my cars. Everything I read on either the internet or see on YouTube is written by folks who sell or replace cabin air filters, so they all say they are great. Nobody I’ve seen says, “Here are the pros and cons. It’s up to you to decide.”
Great article. I’ve owned my car for 3 years, live in Arizona, and have changed the filters 4 times (today was the fourth time). It is INCREDIBLE how much crap gets in these things every 9 months or so. I actually just washed and rinsed my filters this time rather than replace, going to see how it stands the test.
The leaves and dust that are on TOP of the air filter are NOT what you’re breathing in! Those are the particles that the cabin filter has trapped from the incoming air, exactly as it was meant to do. The BOTTOM of the air filter is what you breathe, and, even though it may appear dirty, it does its job fairly well, even in the condition shown in the vid. If you do NOT have an allergy or respiratory issue, or sensitive eyes/skin/etc, then you may delay changing the filter until the manufacturer’s recommended miles have elapsed. If you don’t have such issues, then check the filter every 6 months, by removing it (not all cabin filter housings appear as shown, and some are quite difficult to remove), turn it upside down, and knock out any debris, just as shown in the vid; if you wish, use a VERY soft brush (typically, the kind used with dust pans), and GENTLY clean the top and bottom. Do NOT use any kind of air cylinder/spray, as the force may punch a hole through the filter. Replace the air filter in the same position as you removed it (most filters have one side with arrows or writing on it, so you can easily tell not only which way is up, but which way faces the interior of the car (i.e., the arrow/written side)). Generally speaking, if you hold the air filter up to a strong light or the sun, and you can clear see through it or you can’t see the light source at all, then it’s time to change it.
MY RIO-5 WAS BOUGHT 3 YRS AGO AND THIS FILTER HAS NEVER BEEN TOUCHED. MY HEAT IN WINTER AND A/C DIDN’T SEEM TO BE WORKING WELL AND JUST LOOKING AT MINE FREAKED ME OUT AND EVEN THOUGH I CLEANED IT I THINK I NEED TO BUY BOTH FILTERS. ODDLY MY ENGINE FILTER WAS NOT THAT DIRTY BUT THE STUTTERING AT LOW SPEEDS STOPPED AND IT’S RUNNING 100% BETTER AND A NEW ONE WOULD MAKE IT RUN LIKE NEW??
So you shake off the leaves & dust & dirt and then you say something like, “this is all the stuff you’re breathing in”. Really? I don’t think so. Certainly you might be breathing in the dust but if there was no cabin air filter then you certainly would not be breathing it the larger debris from trees. And even the dust is what you would be breathing in IF there was no filter installed. But since the filter captured the dust, you not breathing it in either. We always have our air set on fresh instead of recirculate so I doubt the air inside the cabin is six times dirtier.
When I run my AC I am using outside fresh air not recirculated air. I gave you thumbs up. I think you could have mentioned that all horizontally mounted cabin air filters with the blower motor mounted below the filter will have downward air flow regardless if make or model. On Toyotas it usually say “Up” on the plastic panel or tray. That does not indicate air flow direction but simply is telling us which side of those parts go up when you reinstall them. Same with an OEM filter. If it says up next to the arrows then it points up. If it says “air flow” it points down.