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I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE DONE TO YOUR VEHICLE BY FOLLOWING THIS GUIDE! DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK OR PAY THE DEALER TO CHANGE YOUR CABIN FILTER FOR YOU! PLEASE DO NOT POST THIS GUIDE NO WHERE ELSE OR MODIFY IT. Email or PM me with any questions you may have
I advise anyone to change their cabin filter themselves. It's a good idea to change it every 15,000 miles depending on where you live and how dirty the air is. It's fairly straight forward to change it after you figure it out. My local dealer wants $180 to change it. I'd pay for it, but it's always fun to try things yourself. It makes you feel better at the end of the day knowing you accomplished something, and saved some cash in the process. Plus I don't like the dealer touching my interior so they can scratch something up. I'm anal about scratches and prefer doing it myself as I know I'm careful with things. You can call me crazy if you want
You have two choices for filters. The OEM regular paper filter that comes with our rides on the FX35, or you can spend a little more money and upgrade to the grape polyphenol filter that is an option on the FX50. I personally used the grape polyphenol filter as I heard that it's better for people that suffer from allergies, and blocks out smog.
OEM Paper Filter:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories
OEM Grape Polyphenol Filter:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories
Step 1:
Open the glove box and remove any personal belongings inside
Step 2:
With the glove box open, take both hands and pull up on the glove box. Make sure your pulling it up and towards you. Doing this unlatches the tabs its attached to at the bottom. You'll hear a pop sound when it unlatches from the supporting tabs. It takes a little elbow grease at first, but don't pull too hard and make sure you don't scratch anything removing it. Last thing we want is damaged interior parts.
Step 3:
After the glove box unlatches, tilt it to the right so that you can get the those two side tabs out of the holes on the side
Step 4:
Next pull that tab ( red arrow points to it in picture below) on the side that holds the string wire thing on the side of the glove box. The point of that wire is to help assist the glove box to help it open and glide down slowly. Just pull the tab and it will pop right off.
Step 5:
This is what it should look like after the glove box part is removed
Step 6:
Remove all seven screws I circled in red in the picture below that are attached to that plastic back plate
Step 7:
Take your hand and pull down on that lower plate that holds the floor well light. There's just three tabs, so when you pull on it, there should be a pop sound letting you know it came apart
Step 8:
Now that the seven screws were removed from the back plate, and that lower finishing plate we just removed, now it's time to remove the entire back plate. all you have to do is get a hold of it and pull it towards you. There are two clips left supporting it. Just pull on it towards you until you hear a pop sound
Step 9:
Twist the glove box light counterclockwise so that you can unhook the wire for the glove box light from the back plate. Doing this allows you to set the back plate aside and have more room to work with
Step 10:
Now onto the filter. The filter is located in the white box I circled in red in the picture below
Step 11:
To remove the white cover you first have to pull the white tab on the right side towards you. I'll make a pop sound too letting you know it's released. After that you'll have to wiggle the left side a little to get the cover to come off
Step 12:
Now that you have the cover off, just pull out the old filter and put in your new FX50 grape polyphenol filter. Make sure the part that says Nissan is facing you and the arrow printed on the filter is pointing down. This is used as guide to show the direction of air to make sure you don't screw up
Step 13:
Now that your new filter is now in the slot properly. Place the white cover back on. Here is the part you MUST listen to though before putting the cover back on. The filter must sit above these four white tabs on the white cover inside. I made arrows pointing to what I'm talking about. So when you put the cover back on make sure you slowly do that to make sure the filter is sitting above the four white tabs. Not doing so will screw up the airflow
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If you look in the picture I took below, you can clearly see through the cover that the filter is sitting at the top above the four white tabs
Step 14:
Now that your completely done, assemble everything back together in the reverse order and clean up after yourself
Step 15:
Everything should look like this when completed aka the way it was before you started
And don't forget to put your cabin filter change interval reminder on too that is provided with the filter from the dealer
Congrats you just accomplished a maintenance item yourself. Go inside and treat yourself to an ice cold beer
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the hardest and 1 being the easiest, I'd give this DIY a 4.
As always happy modding
I advise anyone to change their cabin filter themselves. It's a good idea to change it every 15,000 miles depending on where you live and how dirty the air is. It's fairly straight forward to change it after you figure it out. My local dealer wants $180 to change it. I'd pay for it, but it's always fun to try things yourself. It makes you feel better at the end of the day knowing you accomplished something, and saved some cash in the process. Plus I don't like the dealer touching my interior so they can scratch something up. I'm anal about scratches and prefer doing it myself as I know I'm careful with things. You can call me crazy if you want
You have two choices for filters. The OEM regular paper filter that comes with our rides on the FX35, or you can spend a little more money and upgrade to the grape polyphenol filter that is an option on the FX50. I personally used the grape polyphenol filter as I heard that it's better for people that suffer from allergies, and blocks out smog.
OEM Paper Filter:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories
OEM Grape Polyphenol Filter:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories
Step 1:
Open the glove box and remove any personal belongings inside
Step 2:
With the glove box open, take both hands and pull up on the glove box. Make sure your pulling it up and towards you. Doing this unlatches the tabs its attached to at the bottom. You'll hear a pop sound when it unlatches from the supporting tabs. It takes a little elbow grease at first, but don't pull too hard and make sure you don't scratch anything removing it. Last thing we want is damaged interior parts.
Step 3:
After the glove box unlatches, tilt it to the right so that you can get the those two side tabs out of the holes on the side
Step 4:
Next pull that tab ( red arrow points to it in picture below) on the side that holds the string wire thing on the side of the glove box. The point of that wire is to help assist the glove box to help it open and glide down slowly. Just pull the tab and it will pop right off.
Step 5:
This is what it should look like after the glove box part is removed
Step 6:
Remove all seven screws I circled in red in the picture below that are attached to that plastic back plate
Step 7:
Take your hand and pull down on that lower plate that holds the floor well light. There's just three tabs, so when you pull on it, there should be a pop sound letting you know it came apart
Step 8:
Now that the seven screws were removed from the back plate, and that lower finishing plate we just removed, now it's time to remove the entire back plate. all you have to do is get a hold of it and pull it towards you. There are two clips left supporting it. Just pull on it towards you until you hear a pop sound
Step 9:
Twist the glove box light counterclockwise so that you can unhook the wire for the glove box light from the back plate. Doing this allows you to set the back plate aside and have more room to work with
Step 10:
Now onto the filter. The filter is located in the white box I circled in red in the picture below
Step 11:
To remove the white cover you first have to pull the white tab on the right side towards you. I'll make a pop sound too letting you know it's released. After that you'll have to wiggle the left side a little to get the cover to come off
Step 12:
Now that you have the cover off, just pull out the old filter and put in your new FX50 grape polyphenol filter. Make sure the part that says Nissan is facing you and the arrow printed on the filter is pointing down. This is used as guide to show the direction of air to make sure you don't screw up
Step 13:
Now that your new filter is now in the slot properly. Place the white cover back on. Here is the part you MUST listen to though before putting the cover back on. The filter must sit above these four white tabs on the white cover inside. I made arrows pointing to what I'm talking about. So when you put the cover back on make sure you slowly do that to make sure the filter is sitting above the four white tabs. Not doing so will screw up the airflow
If you look in the picture I took below, you can clearly see through the cover that the filter is sitting at the top above the four white tabs
Step 14:
Now that your completely done, assemble everything back together in the reverse order and clean up after yourself
Step 15:
Everything should look like this when completed aka the way it was before you started
And don't forget to put your cabin filter change interval reminder on too that is provided with the filter from the dealer
Congrats you just accomplished a maintenance item yourself. Go inside and treat yourself to an ice cold beer
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the hardest and 1 being the easiest, I'd give this DIY a 4.
As always happy modding
