"dogisbadob" (dogisbadob)
11/16/2013 at 14:25 • Filed to: None
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"dogisbadob" (dogisbadob)
11/16/2013 at 14:25 • Filed to: None | 2
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I just installed it today! (every 92+ Camry and ES300 has provisions for the cabin filter, but very few actually came with it). It took about 15 minutes since the filter is actually two pieces, and you have to push the top filter up into its slot and then insert the other filter, and all this shit is located by the gas pedal.
Now I have to see how well it works!
Usually they can approach $30, but I got a prvate label version on eBay for just $11, so I couldn't pass it up.
Yeah I know most new cars have them, but cabin air filters were practically unheard of 20+ years ago!
Nibby
> dogisbadob
11/16/2013 at 14:41 |
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It was a 2 minute job in one of the cars I did it in around a year ago. Pop open glovebox, slide open the tab, pop out filter, change it. It was $10 too at Autozone for a Lexus, not bad.
Takuro Spirit
> dogisbadob
11/16/2013 at 14:48 |
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I heard most have the provision, some do not. I have the some. No door to open. Unless I'm blind. That could be.
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dogisbadob
> Takuro Spirit
11/16/2013 at 15:08 |
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Wow, I thought they all had it! Well I guess US-market 4th-gens don't :( (although the Avalon and ES300 do).
Some people have found a plastic piece welded shut, so maybe you could just cut along the line and then install the filter.
The stupid location is more than canceled out by the smartness of having the cabin filter in the first place.
You may have seen this thread already, but if not check it out. post #18 looks especially relevant
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dogisbadob
> Nibby
11/16/2013 at 15:12 |
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Yeah, but it was probably newer than my car!
Yeah the new cars have them behind the glovebox or under the hood, but the select few pre-2000 cars that had them put them in sillier locations.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> dogisbadob
11/16/2013 at 22:40 |
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Nice. I was able to fashion one for myself for about $2. There's already a plastic mesh over the cabin air intake, so I just cut a dryer vent filter to fit and voila! Clean air for 90 days.