How to Install CRV Cabin Air Filters
A clean cabin air filter helps to reduce the number of pollutants that make their way into your car. Replacing your cabin air filter once a year, or every 15,000 miles, will help to ensure that your air filtration system is working properly and does not become clogged. A clogged air filtration system can cause the air to leak slower and slower from your vents. Eventually, you will barely be able to feel any air flowing through your vents at all.
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Instructions
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Clean out your glove box and remove all of the materials in the glove box.
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Locate one black tab in the top, rear corner on the outside of each glove box panel. Press both of the black tabs in. Reach inside of the glove box, grab one of the black tabs, and wiggle it until it comes loose. Remove the black tab. Repeat this process to remove the other black tab.
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Pull your glove box all the way forward. This will reveal the area behind the glove box.
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Locate the cabin air filter cover. This will look like a rectangular-shaped waffle iron that is about two inches tall and four inches wide. Press the latch on the left-hand side of the cover and gently pull it out. Directly behind the cabin air filter cover will be two cases.
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Grab the corners of the top case and gently pull it out. On the right side of the empty case locate a black tab. Slide the black tab all the way to the left. This will reveal another case. Grab the corners of this case and gently pull it out.
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Remove the old filter from each of the plastic cases.
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Place the new air filters into the plastic casings.
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Place the casing that slides into the inside slot in first and push it all the way to the right. Then, push the other casing into its location.
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Slide the cabin air filter into its location in front of the cabin air filter casings and press it down to lock it in place.
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Lift the front part of the glove box up so that black tab holes on the glove box line up with the black tab holes on the glove box casing.
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Press the black tab on the left side into the hole and push it in to lock it in place. Repeat the process on the other side.
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References
- Photo Credit The automobile filter for air clearing image by Dzmitry Halavach from Fotolia.com
