Air Conditioning/cabin air filter

[Drummo Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Drummo]

This job would have to be one of the easiest, cheapest and therefore and one of the most satisfying you can do (along with the ScanGear 2 installation)! Thanks for the photos and tips.

[Friar Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Friar]

G/Day Boys ,I am not very mechanical minded ,how do you get the glove box out, thanking you Friar.

[LiveFreeAndRoam Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close LiveFreeAndRoam]

Have a read of the whole thread and you will find directions with pictures.
Few of us are mechanically minded, but the quality of directions given by fellow PPers makes it so you don't have to be

LFaR.

[gavdan1968 Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close gavdan1968]

Thanks to all on PP contributing to this thread, just saved me $69. The prado is due for a 30,000 k service - where they replace the cabin filter, although one wasn't fitted to the GX Limited in the first place "it's in the handbook service" - as the young lad at Clark Rubber next door to the dealer took great delight in cutting up the foam to size for $4. I had never taken the glovebox out - had no need until now - and it was easy with the instructions on this thread, thanks gents!

[Daz Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Daz]

I fitted one a month ago, made from the white air cond filter material

Have since done a couple of hundred kms on red dirt thru Karijini, half of it this following mates car, and I used the air on recirc, and then back on fresh when on bitumen (approx 4500kms)

Took filter out today, and def has dust in it. The other side was clean.


The inside of car was pretty much free of dust, and I think the dust we did get inside was tramped in by the 3 Rugrats.
Im going to drop glovebox out of D4D Hilux tomorrow and see whats in there after 110k kms

[Drummo Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Drummo]

I replaced my air filter today and instead of going to Clark Rubber, found a substitute piece of foam at Bunnings (by accident). It is actually a piece of floor cleaning foam. It is the opencell type used in air conditioners. $2.49 each. My Clark Rubber (Nunawading) only wanted to sell me a one metre square piece of foam for $65.
You need two of them and place them side-by side and the scissors and a couple of minutes to trim. It is the exact thickness. You just need to trim the edges. This might be an easier solution for some than going to Clark Rubber. Just look for it in the household cleaning products aisle at Bunnings.

[LenGXV6 Member Find all posts View Profile Close LenGXV6]

Filter

I have a similar thing in mine, except I use a very fine mesh filter padding from my aquarium. I get it in large packs but only use about 1/3 each time, so I cut some of that up, works a treat.......and now that I have finaly read the whole post, I think I may have to go change it, it is aboout due.

[Zapper Member Find all posts View Profile Close Zapper]

Hey Daz not only does it filters out the dust ,it looks like it is good for butterflies also :shock: :lol:

[Daz Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Daz]

Hey Daz not only does it filters out the dust ,it looks like it is good for butterflies also :shock: :lol:

Zapper
Its now the first in my collection, apart from the others resting peacefully on the front of my bullbar

There you go. It also serves as a butterfly net.

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First thing I did after picking my June 08 build Prado was drive out of the yard and stop 100 m up the road and check the aircon filter.

It had the Toyota filter fitted but this looks pretty ordinary so I went to Clark Rubber in Rocky today. I took in the filter holder.

Young bloke there was keen to help - He cut out three bits of 20cm aircon filter to size to fit the holder. Cost about $14 for the three filters and a bit of plastic tube for the tap/outlet where you check for water in the fuel filter.

[Daz Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Daz]

Off topic a bit, but I thought I would be clever and extend this mod to the 2005 Hilux, but alas the poverty pack Hilux doesnt even have a slide out filter tray. Just a blank

[ABD Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close ABD]

Air Conditioning/cabin air filter

I decided to check our filter and was surprised at how much it had caught but we are disappointed at the amount of dust that has got through. Time to modify.
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[MickL Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close MickL]

Re: Air Conditioning/cabin air filter

TIP: If using the white airconditioning filter material as shown in this thread (or similar materials) you can spray it with aerosol "air filter oil" as used on K&N filters etc.

This sticky oil improves filtration by a considerable amount, especially fine dust filtration. Just a light coat is all you need. Available from Super Cheap auto and alike.

Mick

[Golly Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Golly]

Re: Air Conditioning/cabin air filter

a certain mining company supplier makes a filter almost to the same measurements haha............um its now mine.... what can I say.. the perks 8)

[stan Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close stan]

Re: Air Conditioning/cabin air filter

I fitted a RYCO one. It seems to be the same one that is used on Toyota Echos and Corollas and also Subaru Liberty and Outback. Seems to be working fine.