gago1101

My manual states that I need to replace both the A/C and the cabin charcoal filter. I have tried searching the forums and the web to find out where the cabin charcoal filter may be and how different it is from the A/C filter. It seems everybody refers to them as cabin filters and do not make a distinction. Has anybody changed the A/C and cabin charcoal filters? do you know where they are?
Does the paper filter mean it is the A/C filters in the hood?

thanks!

I Like Soup

In searching for information on the different service schedules, I read one of them is in the passenger foot well. I do not know this from experience, however.

MJ50

as far as i know, there is no a/c filter... just cabin filter....

gago1101

I found the cabin or a/c air filter inside the hood toward the passenger side. I am not sure which one this is, but I am ordering a Bosch charcoal activated cabin filter from Kragen for $50.00. will find out if it's the one.

Yacht Master

One under the hood passenger side is the paper filter. The charcoal cabin filters are in the upper passenger foot well, remove the black plastic cover and you will see 2 big clips that slide off and allow the filters to be removed.

D Bst

Seems to me there's a raft of confusion on the "cabin" and "A/C" filters.

It's not helped that over the years MB changed out what is and isn't needed.

My take (based on my 04 experience and seeing posts like this - https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/...t-removal.html ) is:

03-04 used Carbon activated filters in two places (Cabin - up under passenger footwell & above aux battery under hood.
05-06 (?) used carbon filter under the hood and nothing (double ??) in the footwell.

E63 is different again (maybe?).

Best bet is to look at what you have fitted in there now, and then re-order and replace with the same!!!

MJ50

i have 04 and i have 2 charcoal filters below the glovebox and 1 cabin filter under the hood...

komp55

This is correct. 05 and 06 only have a single charcoal filter located in the housing in the engine compartment near the base of the passenger side windshield. The small under dash filters were eliminated in the later model years. I think the the EPC might even show either the changeover date or the change over VIN. When I first got my '05, I also thought there were supposed to be some interior cabin filters and spent some time trying to figure out what the deal was. Simply, they're not there; o5's and beyond only have the cabin air filter located in the engine compartment housing.

Jon2007E63P30

E63 is the same, only one under the hood. Looked last night.

06E55

Can someone tell me the part number for the charcoal filter for an 06 E55? Also, how do you go about replacing the filter? I see there is a thin plastic "shield" that goes over the filter compartment (at least what I believe is the filter compartment) and then a trapeoidal hard plastic "box" that houses the filter (or at least what I believe may be the filter), but I can't figure out how to get it apart.

Also, where are the air filters for the engine at? Do K&N replacements give much improvement?

JoelE55

There is a dust filter that sit behind the glove box..part # 211-830-12-18 and the cabin filter is located under the hood...part # 211-830-00-18.....Dust filter usually doesn't get replace unless
have to...if you have a bad smell when turning a/c..