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BEFORE YOU START
This pictorial covers the Filters that do clean both recirculated and fresh air. They are located inside the vehicle and called cabin filters. The below concerns a Renault or Dacia Duster but applies to many other cars for the numerous similarities between the way cabin filters are fitted in A/C systems. |
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DISCLAIMER:
Our pictorials are of informative nature and do illustrate works carried out by ourselves at our own premises for our own use and satisfaction.
Readers who envisage to carry out similar works inspired by the below method shall do this at their own risks and liability.
Our pictorials are of informative nature and do illustrate works carried out by ourselves at our own premises for our own use and satisfaction.
Readers who envisage to carry out similar works inspired by the below method shall do this at their own risks and liability.
Symptoms of a clogged car A/C cabin filter
- Car A/C is overall less efficient, yet the pulsed air from the A/C grilles on the dashboard is cold
- Excessive A/C fan noise inside the car
- Air getting out of the A/C diffusers is too cold
- Air flow is reduced, put your hand facing an A/C diffuser and pull it out slowly, you will notice the pulsed air reaches a shorter distance
- Uncomfortable ambience inside the car at night, with the A/C being too cold
- Uncomfortable ambience inside the car under the sun, with the A/C lacking efficiency
How to replace a cabin filter under the dashboard
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1- Go straight to the area below the dashboard in front of the passenger seat.
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2- Look beneath the dashboard and find that black plastic device with straight and curved grooves in its wall. It is your heating and A/C system.
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3- Look well to any vertical rectangular element that is susceptible to be extracted. Find a catch, a small handle as most filters require no tools to be removed.
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4- Take it out by hand.
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5- This is your cabin filter. It needs to be replaced every 10,000 Km in dusty countries.
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6- Make sure of the airflow direction when unpacking the new one. An arrow indicates UP or Flow.
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7- Gently insert the new cartridge. Don't force. The opening might be smaller than the filter. Squeeze it a bit or introduce it diagonally then push it in.
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8- In this particular case, it goes from the upside first, shapes like a hand fan before taking its final seat. You always here a "click" denoting you inserted it with success.
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