Where Is The Air Filter In A Car

On most modern vehicles, the air filter is under the hood inside a rectangular cold air collector box that's located up near the front of the engine compartment. (Other vehicles, including those with carburetors, have large round metal air cleaners that are hard to miss.)

The air cleaner has a large air inlet duct (besides called the air intake hose) continued to information technology. Loosen the hose clench that seals it to the box, and then undo all the screws, clamps, or wing nuts that hold the lid of the box in place. Put the fasteners you removed somewhere rubber so that they don't roll off into oblivion. Open up the lid of the box and . . . voila! . . . y'all should observe the air filter inside (every bit shown here). Lift out the one-time filter (it isn't fastened downward) and take a await at it.

The cold air collector box houses the air filter.

Some older vehicles have permanent air filters, and some off-route vehicles have more-complex filters with wet and dry elements. Make clean and supplant these co-ordinate to the instructions in your owner'due south manual.

To figure out whether your air filter needs to be replaced, simply hold it up to the sun or to a strong light. Can you see the light streaming through it? If not, attempt dropping it lightly , bottom side downwards, on a hard surface. Doing so should jar some dirt loose. If the filter is still too dirty to encounter through after yous've dropped it a few times and it looks as though information technology just needs a bit of cleaning, you lot can try to clean information technology. If that doesn't work, yous need a new i.

To make clean a pleated air filter employ either an air hose to blow the dirt off (not through) information technology or a vacuum to suck it out. For both methods, handle the filter gently to avert burdensome the pleats. Keep the nozzle of the air hose or vacuum cleaner several inches away from the filter — don't jam information technology up against it. And if yous're using compressed air, do information technology abroad from the vehicle to avoid blowing the dirt effectually under the hood.

If the interior of the box is fouled with grit or sand, before you clean the box paste some duct tape over the open cease of the air intake hose and then that the clay can't become in. Then either utilize the compressed air hose to accident the dirt out of the box or the vacuum cleaner to suck it out.

When the cleaned filter — or the new one — is in place, put the lid back on the box and supervene upon all the stuff that held it on. Then, remove the duct record from the open up end of the air intake hose and use the hose clamp to reattach it to the box. Done!