Cabin Air filter ,96 S320
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2011 E350 Bluetec, 1996 S320 & 2006 E320 CDI Sold to my son & 2017 GMC 2500 Diesel Pick up
Cabin Air filter ,96 S320
Sorry for all the Questions but With out a repair manual I turn to you guys for help ! My car has no charcole filter as far as I can tell, no switch etc. but does it have the Cabin air filter? Where is it and is it hard to change? Rod
'96 S320
'84 190E
'03 GMC Sierra
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96 S500 Coupe
open the hood, look at the area where the wipers are, you will see a black cover with a lot of little hex screws. Remove that cover.
stand on the passenger side, you will see a black box right beside the quarter panel (thats your ECU box), next to it there is another black box with red and green vacuum lines going into it... the filter is below that cover. You will notice a few phillips screws holding the cover down... remove screws, and lift that cover up (you dont need to remove the vac lines).. then you will see the filter... lift it out and put a new there, and put everything back together.
This is how it looks like when you lift the box:
stand on the passenger side, you will see a black box right beside the quarter panel (thats your ECU box), next to it there is another black box with red and green vacuum lines going into it... the filter is below that cover. You will notice a few phillips screws holding the cover down... remove screws, and lift that cover up (you dont need to remove the vac lines).. then you will see the filter... lift it out and put a new there, and put everything back together.
This is how it looks like when you lift the box:
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'15 S550, '10 E350 P1/P2, '02 ML320
Also, there is recirculating air filter above the passenger footwell, much easier to replace than the "grand piano" (you will understand when you see it) filter under the hood. The recirc filter media closely resembles the stuff you see in furnace filters.
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