Yuille36

If not, are you in for a treat of pain and misery. Your cabin filter is for your air conditioning & heating.
It's located under and behind your glove compartment. This is the second time that, I have changed one out. And let me tell you it gets no easier, even if your know what your doing.
You have to contort your body, just to get under their. What a pain in the A** it is.
You have to remove three screws, disconnect the light, pull back the carpet. but with these filters, they have tow metal clips, that are hard to get off and then back on, once the filter is replaced.
I'm glad that I will not have to chang this filter until another year.

SonnyakaPig

I haven't had the pleasure of attempting this replacement myself. But, I did have my dealer do it. Took care of the musk.

Maybe I'll give it a go next time I need one.

Yuille36

This is a major pain in the a** to remove, trust me. There are only three screws, but the plastic tray simply does come off, the carpet needs to be pulled back, and the tray is stuck behind the side kick panel. Then you have to disconnect the footwell lighting. When you finally get access to the filter, there are these small metal reaining clips that need to be plied off, and there difficult because there isn't any working room, when your on your back, contorted. But when you get the clips off, you slide a lever and the filter slide right out. now that fun starts all over again, getting the clips, and the panel back in. Fun Fun

Jycke

I have this sour smell coming from my ac. I have service scheduled on Wednesday because of this issue. Is this the same thing?

C63newdude

I am having my dealer do it on the 20000 mile(Service B). I am glad that you told me about the dificulty of removing the filter because I thought that it was easier.

I am planning on putting good expensive cologne on my filter element and I am not kidding when I say that. My car stinks very bad...

Yuille36

Its a easy procedure, just very difficult due to space under the glove box, and also your on your back contorting to loosen screws, etc. And it's tight under there as well. Simple answer it's a pain in the a** at best. A small, petite women, should have no problems. If you could take out the passenger seat, the problem, would be resolved, as you would have all the room you need

ZephyrAMG

USE THIS STUFF:

BFNYM156

I did mine, instruction says 15 mins job, took us double that much time, but it was very dirty after 18000 miles

Yuille36

I spent about that much time, and I knew what I was doing. It's just very difficult to be bending your body every which way, just to get that dam filter out. Those that haven't tried, well you will know exactly what we're talking about when you do.

SonnyakaPig

Now, I just want to try for the challenge.

Yuille36

Sure knock yourself out. The filters are cheap, and the interior smell will be better since their lined with charcoal. The filters will come with instruction. Just be prepared for a little aggravation

iatacs19

Use this as a reference:

Cabin Filter.pdf

bushburninc63

I just realized my cabin doesn't stink anymore since I brought my car in for Service B. It use to stink when I turned on my A/C before the filter change.

chief63

I noticed when removing my ecu that I would have great access to the cabin filter from there, takes 2 minutes...

Mort

While you can see the cabin filter from there I doubt you can change it from the engine bay. Our R Class was like that and I tried to get it out from the engine side but it could not be done. It would be so much easier if you change the cabin filter from the engine bay. For the R Class I had to take the glove box out to get to the filter housing. Now that was a pain (pun intended).

chief63

I'll try it sometime, would have been smart from MB

jvanbrecht

I changed mine.. in about 10 minutes.... The damn filter cost me $60 though.. wtf!!!

andrew c230k

What brand of filter is it and does anyone have the oem parts number and the manufactures parts number encase you don't want to buy it from the dealer.

bhamg

I recommend these guys IF they have the cabin microfilters - call them to find out. I've used them for all my BMW filter needs and in recent years they've started carrying MB filters. I bought eight Hengst oil filters for the C63 from them but they were not listed on the website yet so I had to call. Great people to do business with...

http://www.pelicanparts.com/

JimmyR

Suspect if you have access to a hoist, as a typical workshop would, you could set it at the right height so you could open the door and reach in to the footwell from below. Would save on the some of the contortionist work