Replacing Cabin Air Filter -- what a PITA

Unobtanium said:

I let the dealer muck with this one. however, when they wanted to charge me $25 to install the engine air filter...I did it myself, rofl!

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Heritage07 said:

Then you can find out where the left over parts go when your sober the next day.

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blackcx5 said:

$25 ? I was at the dealer yesterday and an old lady came in complaining about foul mildew smell coming from her air vents, the dealer stood there with a straight face and said they can easily fix it by servicing her cabin air filter for a low price of $75, and they would vacuum all the leaves and pollen, yada yada yada, new filter is better for your health HEPA, all BS to sell ...... I wanted to tell her so bad that I can do it for her for free, but she already agreed and thanked the dealer like they were doing her a favor....

unfortuantely for her, I don't think swapping out filter will solve the real issue, need to get to the source of the smell: the mildew on the evap coils.....

https://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123856340-Unclog-a-c-drain-and-remove-musty-smell-easily&highlight=mildew

wonder how much the dealer will charge for this ? $125 ? not sure they even know how to do it.....

they would probably say the whole evap has to be cleaned and need to take apart the whole dash to get to it, $500

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Conrad 16.5 said:

All you guys who are posting about how fast you can change the cabin filter must be forgetting one VERY important step!

Beer!

Beer is required for almost all car maintenance and job times should be measured in the number of beers consumed while performing said maintenance.

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CX-5um said:

Can I substitute for a shot of tequila? One of these days I'm going to have to post a vid of me changing the filter and taking a shot.

Forget 0-60 times being sub 8 seconds....we need 0-filter change/beer can or shots time being sub 10 seconds.

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