Don't let your cabin filter Ew, and to yellow or not to yellow?

"4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30" (4muddyfeet)
11/06/2015 at 09:27 • Filed to: None

Changed the fecal-y vomit-y smelling cabin filter in the Skoda. The smell when I turn on the vents is now mediocre to pleasant, and any passengers can’t look at each other accusingly wondering which person launched the air biscuit.

I’m also thinking about turning the fogs yellow. Yes or no?

DISCUSSION (22)

JeepJeremy > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 09:39

I’m very envious of your car. There is some serious coolness to it. Too bad we don’t have them here in the States.

MonkeePuzzle > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 09:41

yes 100% on the yellow fogs. its subtle but very nice change

RazoE > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 09:43

If you put a dryer sheet on the filter before you put it back, you’ll get a blast of pleasant smell each time you use the HVAC system.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > JeepJeremy
11/06/2015 at 09:45

Thanks :) I’m fully aware that my cars are only cool in the U.S.A., mainly because they’re either rare or unobtainable. Over here I’m just another early-onset grandad in a Skoda, or one of those weird Land Rover guys.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > RazoE
11/06/2015 at 09:47

Ooh top tip. It’s already in, just it’s really simple to take out.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 09:47

Eh, we’re weird over here in the States as well.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 09:48

I never got to see Wylam when it wasn’t at least moist in the air, and seeing that air filter and previous rust and whatnot made me wonder if it was quite so damp all the time. So I went to the web to find out if it rained all that much, and found that the annual precipitation here is nearly double what you get. Huh. I knew it rained hard when it rained here, but that’s ridiculous.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/06/2015 at 09:51

Wylam is pretty good for weather, we’re tucked down in the tree-lined valley on the river, and it seems to maintain it’s own little microclimate fairly well. No flooding, rare heavy snowfall, and fairly protected from the wind. Some of the surrounding areas get hit a lot harder than us.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 10:02

Where I am, we’re just east of the biggest Appalachian mountains and west of a set of foothills. Weather patterns move up from south-southeast and bottleneck or camp out in the trough there until they rain out. So, when the skies are clear, it’s well enough, but when they aren’t, things get absolutely drenched. The particular valley dead end we’re in is even more rainy than the middle of town in that event, though it’s not as bad as further up the trough in a way, some other towns that get almost Alpine snow when its cold enough.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/06/2015 at 10:11

Do they salt the roads there too? I’m not sure how heavy your winters are, but if so I’m surprised your Land Rovers have any underpinnings left!

My hovercraft is full of eels > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 10:12

I have my cabin filter changed every 15k kilometres. This spring, I went and had my AC system cleaned and checked - the AC-specialist guy looked at the used filter (they change it when cleaning the system) and said I should have it replaced more often...
Wow... I have some friends who change it every 5 years or so.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 10:14

They do salt the roads. Usually only when a big snow is inbound, however, which sometimes isn’t but once or twice a year. Conditions are schizophrenic a bit - either long periods of dry harsh cold or freezing rain melting off right away. We’ve had over a foot on the ground more than once in the past ten years, I think, but it’s not the norm.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > My hovercraft is full of eels
11/06/2015 at 10:18

15k km or 10k miles sounds about right, but for the cost of them I just replace them as and when I need to. I only bought this car earlier this year and this filter was supposed to be replaced with the sale. I know they did fuel/oil/air filters, so they either missed this one out or my last 8 months of driving have been through disgusting air.

EL_ULY > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 10:20

Kinja'd!!!

i did this also on my A6 (c5) and also yellow bulbs for the high beam

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > EL_ULY
11/06/2015 at 10:24

That’s a nice idea, I think the yellow and blue works quite well so yellow bulbs would sit pretty. Would probably have to change the sidelights to yellow too, otherwise there’ll be a right mish-mash of lighting going on. Then there’s probably too much yellow :/ or yellow all the things(?!)

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 10:29

We recently changed the cabin filter in my M3 (not a fun job in the E36, fyi) and I’m pretty sure it was original to the car. 18 years of nasty built up on the filter, no wonder my HVAC smelled terribad.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/06/2015 at 13:20

Urgh, that’s grim if it was the original filter. How many miles on the clock when you bought it? The Skoda’s is super simple to fit. Unscrew one plastic screw by hand, remove trim from top of footwell, slide access hatch to left, remove old filter, reverse. It takes about 3 mins :)

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 13:47

When we changed it it was at about 172k.

Yeah, I have to take my glovebox out and actually break the plastic surrounding on the filter itself into thirds to squeeze it into the space. Stupid, stupid design.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/06/2015 at 13:54

Efficient!

Sam > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 15:18

I need to change my cabin air filter, but damn BMW and their Torx screws prevent me from doing it easily.

pip bip - choose Corrour > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/06/2015 at 17:30

would change cabin filter if i could , but i can’t (my ‘04 Lancr doesn’t have one)

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > pip bip - choose Corrour
11/06/2015 at 18:08

Enjoy your outback dust, colonybro!