TRD911

I pulled out my cabin air filter the other day and took a few pics. I could not believe all the stuff that was trapped by the filter. I then tried to replace the filter with a high quality air filter.

TRD911

I then cut out the filter. Note: no carbon. The carbon is pretty important to eliminate odors. This was my first trial.

TRD911

I used some tape to seal around the edges..

TRD911

I think that this is okay. Not great. I think it would do okay to protect the evap and other important parts. But, no carbon. I went to lowes and bought the air filter that they have as a universal with carbon and cut that to size and installed it. I made 4 filters out of a 10 dollar filter. I am pretty satisfied with this version of the filter. Thanks to bananasGS for the idea.

TRD911

I did not take a pic of the final product but I am sure you have the idea. I used tape around the edges again. I am pretty sure this will be my final ideal towards the cabin air filter.

This pic shows the filter elements from a scrap peice.

The black part is the carbon and the greensih blue is the filter. Air flow is thru the greenish blue media then the carbon.

GSteg

iTrader: (15)

Even worse is that most people dont even know there is a cabin filter in our cars. Everytime I drove around, there is always a GS with its windows up and AC on. I can't help but to think how dirty the air is

GS300Rich

when I changed my airfilter it was nasty. I replaced it with the blitz filter and it made a huge difference. Its amazing how much crap gets in there

LEXUS_KID

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Lexmex

The dirty filter takes the prize.

Nice ideas you had on the replacement Keep up the good work.

tmf2004

iTrader: (15)

That filter was pretty bad.. One of the best mods when i first got the GS.. 4.99 filter from Lowes.. cut and tape and your good to go..

4ntvings

iTrader: (6)

i'm with gsteg, a lot of people dont know about the cabin filter...yuck!

bighitbike

Yummmm so clean I could eat off it....

Stage3

iTrader: (3)

What's crazy is to think that before you took it out, you were breathing in all the stuff that it couldn't catch. Yikes. I seriously think that they should have like some sort of light on the A/C control to let you know that the filter isn't working at top efficiency. That could become hazardous to your health after a while!

sleeper408

iTrader: (6)

Didn't someone here have a dead mouse stuck in their cabin filter?

Chenzo26

Yeah, I think that filter would take the cake right there.