I've got me a 20 year old?

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I don’t even know if I own a car with a cabin filter?? My research shows my 1994 ford e150 does not have one. My 1990 Toyota 4x4 pickup I have no idea??
same with my 2015 Toyota Yaris??? No idea I just picked it up this week.
I had a 1995 Ford Contour. Was one of the first to get a cabin filter. I remember them working pretty well. Was on a long road trip with a friend who had bad hay fever. Every time we stopped, he would start sneezing and so on, but once he was in the car, it all went away after a little while.
 
Not bad at all. Interesting that it was never opened or changed until now. Makes me wonder about people saying "most vehicles are over-maintained" LOL.
 
Many manufacturers use a 2 piece filter. Simply slide the top half out and then the other half.
Perfect solution that Honda missed.
We won't replace these on a customers vehicle because of the need to cut what appears to
be a necessary part of the dash structure.

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I had a 1995 Ford Contour. Was one of the first to get a cabin filter. I remember them working pretty well. Was on a long road trip with a friend who had bad hay fever. Every time we stopped, he would start sneezing and so on, but once he was in the car, it all went away after a little while.
My 1995 Escort didn't have a cabin air filter. I'm sure that the evaporator was filthily after 25 years of use.
 
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I'm guessing nobody outside the Honda Insight community knows what I'm referring to, but that intact plastic bar means nobody has ever changed the cabin filter in this 20 year old car. Gonna be interesting to see what it looks like. Air flow out the vents doesn't seem all that restricted except maybe on high.
Changed a cabin filter in a 2017 Cruze a while back and it was quite a bit more involved than this, but did not require cutting any plastic parts, thankfully. A well done Youtube video saved the day.
 
The engineers didn't think that one through eh?
My ex-wife's 2005 Subaru was like that too. The removable slot in the in the glovebox to get to the filter housing was off by a couple of inches. Not possible to open the door to the housing without removing the inside of the glovebox. Found it could be done, and it took me about 4 hours to remove the center console, passenger's kick panels, and the glove box. She freaked out a little when she came to check on it and it looked like her car was in a chop shop being stripped for parts.

Subaru's official procedure? Cut a new hole in glove box. Replace filter. Cover hole with black tape. I wonder if some engineer had to commit seppuku for that kind of mistake.
 
My ex-wife's 2005 Subaru was like that too. The removable slot in the in the glovebox to get to the filter housing was off by a couple of inches. Not possible to open the door to the housing without removing the inside of the glovebox. Found it could be done, and it took me about 4 hours to remove the center console, passenger's kick panels, and the glove box. She freaked out a little when she came to check on it and it looked like her car was in a chop shop being stripped for parts.

Subaru's official procedure? Cut a new hole in glove box. Replace filter. Cover hole with black tape. I wonder if some engineer had to commit seppuku for that kind of mistake.
Wow! The 2017 Cruze cabin air filter replacement procedure (which I thought was needlessly complicated) is a piece of cake compared to that.
 
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