Check your Cabin Air Filter Today!

[sistersinhim]

Where is the cabin filter? I have a 2005 Prius. I looked in the glovebox and couldn't find it.

[Beryl Octet]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sistersinhim @ Feb 6 2007, 08:54 AM) [snapback]385990[/snapback]</div>

Where is the cabin filter? I have a 2005 Prius. I looked in the glovebox and couldn't find it.
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There's instructions here somewhere. Remove the lower glovebox, and it's in that white plastic housing.

[cireecnop1]

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I got a question, I dont think our filters are carbon filters, so i was just wondering if its possible to order ones that are, i just dont like the smell of car exhaust coming into the cabin, Or is this just a feature that Audi like to use?
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Its the other vehicles exhaust, In pueblo we dont have emissions requirements! so these idiots that let their cars go to crap are stinking up not to mention polluting the town.I was just curious, I think i might take a look at the filter and see what i can come up with, thanks guys

[malibucarl]

Hello,
Just checked mine--had not ben done "in awhile". There was a LOT of stuff/dirt. Cleaned, then washed and dried. Really is very easy. Looked at the direction on 1701.
Will NOT wait so long again.
Carl

[Charley]

I ordered both air filters from my local Oreilly auto parts store today. The engine filter, made by WIX, #49116, is $14.99; the cabin filter, an Oreilly house brand, #3962, is $7.99. Figured I'd take a chance on the house brand, see how it looks. Both to be delivered overnight, no shipping charge.

As far as "genuine Toyota parts" goes, I have bought six oil filters from my Toyota dealer, in lots of two. Each pair of filters was made by vendors other than Toyota. The one that's on the engine right now was made in Thailand!

Look those "Toyota Genuine parts" boxes over carefully and I'll bet you'll find out they came from "brand X".

CR

[Bill Merchant]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Charley @ Apr 30 2007, 09:06 AM) [snapback]432558[/snapback]</div>

Look those "Toyota Genuine parts" boxes over carefully and I'll bet you'll find out they came from "brand X".[/b]

Charley, I bet the interior pleat design of the oil filters is the same – Toyota's design. It doesn't matter too much in which country they were made, as long as they meet factory specifications. That's what buying Toyota buys you.

[Charley]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Bill Merchant @ May 1 2007, 12:57 AM) [snapback]433084[/snapback]</div>

Charley, I bet the interior pleat design of the oil filters is the same – Toyota's design. It doesn't matter too much in which country they were made, as long as they meet factory specifications. That's what buying Toyota buys you.
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Bill, you have faith don't you. What Toyota does is buy from the low bidder on minimum specifications. That's business. As consumers we're dependent on each of those bidder's QC program. That's reality.

As for me: if I can buy a quality US-made filter, such as WIX, instead of one from a foreign country, that's where my bucks are going. I'll still have to see where the Oreilly cabin filter came from and how it seems to be quality-wise.

Regards,

CR

[Charley]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Charley @ May 1 2007, 06:57 AM) [snapback]433135[/snapback]</div>

As for me: if I can buy a quality US-made filter, such as WIX, instead of one from a foreign country, that's where my bucks are going.

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Well forget the above. Those two filters were made in Korea & China. So much for buying American.

CR

[Bill Merchant]

Every Toyota dealer I've been to, usually back in the parts department, has a cutaway of the Toyota oil filter and a "standard" accordian pleat filter. Take a look sometime. They are quite proud of their design.

Buy quality, it will bring the competitor's quality up too. Value and cost are connected, but not too tightly. The automobile business, more than many others, is a globally sourced operation.

[Charley]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Bill Merchant @ May 2 2007, 02:15 AM) [snapback]433798[/snapback]</div>

Every Toyota dealer I've been to, usually back in the parts department, has a cutaway of the Toyota oil filter and a "standard" accordian pleat filter. Take a look sometime. They are quite proud of their design.

Buy quality, it will bring the competitor's quality up too. Value and cost are connected, but not too tightly. The automobile business, more than many others, is a globally sourced operation.
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In my years as a pro mechanic I've seen lots of those cutaways. They're not limited to Toyota shops.

I guess you're not aware that WIX filters are highly regarded in the automotive industry. They used to be made in the USA. I hope quality hasn't been compromised by moving their manufacture offshore. Got to look into that. Got to do a new Google on oil filter studies.

CR