If you care to the performance of your car, especially about the comfort during the day then it is important to check the performance of your car air conditioner regularly. This means your must be care to the maintenance of this device. It has a significant contribution to keep the friendly temperature inside of your car. Moreover, poor maintenance also can lead to the inefficiency performance of that unit and finally will make the unit consume higher energy than actually it is. The efficiency is not a single issue that you should concern; the unit also must be able to supply good quality fresh cool air inside of your car, particularly if you suffer from allergy. Therefore, one of important maintenance procedures you must concern is about car air conditioner filter replacement. How to replace or change it? Let’s discuss about this more in this article!
Other familiar nicknames of air conditioner filters in cars are pollen air-filters or cabin air-filters. This feature is always included for most of newer vehicles. As well as the name implies and like other regular air conditioner filters, they have important function to filter the air output before distributing the cooled-air inside of the car so thus users can breathe an amount of hygienic and clean of fresh cool air. The replacement process is important to ensure the filter keep working well and optimal when collecting or blocking any dusts or other unfriendly particles. This procedure is not too difficult, even for a beginner. If you want your filter can keep working optimal it should be replaced for each 15,000 to 12,000 miles. In addition, don’t ever try cleaning or washing your old filter, because it is usually reusable. Well, below are pieces of helpful & basic information on how to change car AC filter:
- Before replacing, it is important to ensure you get the correct filter! Remember that not all cars use the same size and type. Therefore, it is better to buy a new filter replacement at local authorized dealer of your car. To ensure you acquire the appropriate one, don’t miss to consider Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)!
- Then find the location of the filter in your car. It is usually located against or behind the firewall of the engine bay. If you cannot find there, perhaps it is located behind or near the glove box (or air-ducts). Make this step easier by also reading the owner’s manual guidelines, if you lose it you may try to find it in digital PDF file (It usually can be found and downloaded on internet via the authorized online site of your car’s dealer or by using search engines like Google or Bing).
- If you have found it, next try to remove it carefully. For the glove box that is positioned against the firewall, you have to remove the cover or open the hood first, before sliding the old filter out.
- And for filter that is installed behind the glove box, first open that box carefully and then take a look at the sides and then squeeze them together so thus you can remove the catch. Take a look at the glove box and then let it completely lower!
- After the old one is completely removed, now you can install your new filter. Be careful when inserting it, you have to follow the diagram on the cover of filter. Consider the arrow on the filter; mostly it should be face down. Make sure this issue by looking into the diagram near your filter. It requires to point in the one direction as the air flow! And it is better to call your local dealer if the diagram is missing /illegible!
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