It’s usually behind the glovebox. In most vehicles that have cabin air filters, you can open the glovebox and then squeeze the sides of it to allow it to drop down further, and you should see the blower fan for the climate control system right there. Not all vehicles have a filter, but if yours does you can typically access it here.
www.wikihow.com/Replace-Cabin-Air-Filter
I wouldn’t pay someone else to replace it, they’re cheap and its easy to do yourself in about 5 minutes.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They aren’t.
And this is the same mentality to why people never replace their AC filters in their house. Because they either don’t know to, know how to or don’t think it’s important. Until their AC is overworking, and overheating, losing efficiency, so they turn up the dial to make up the difference, further stressing the system until it breaks. Costing $10,000+ in repairs because they didn’t want to spend $20 a few times a year.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
What aggravates me is how fragile the cabin filter holders can be. I guess this can go for a lot of the things that should be regularly checked and changed, but are both made very inaccessible and easy to break. By design, probably.
It's not like I haven't seen PIA stuff in the past. Anyone else done the very regularly needed (and messy) oil change, air cleaner oil change, regapping of points, plugs, and valves on an old VW Beetle? But once you learned how, it was just part of having one and most of it wasn't plastic (none?) that would break off by looking at it.
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Cabin air filters on all vehicles is a modern thing. My first car and my current car don’t have filters. They only started showing up in the 90s for high end cars and economy cars in the mid-late 2000s.
0ops@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Some cars even have the space for one, yet didn’t come with one from the factory? I’ve had at least a couple cars that did this. I can only guess that they simply wanted to be able to charge for it as an option
blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Learned that I needed to vacuum the dust off my window AC filter a couple times a year when it stopped cooling very well and I took the front cover off and saw that it had turned into a block of ice.