Hey I know this vid is kinda old now, but I just wanted to thank you a ton for this tutorial. There's no way I would've been able to do it without a video and all the others seemed needlessly complicated. This is exactly what is needed - nothing more, nothing less. It was a cramped pain in the butt, but I got it done! THANK YOU!
Good to know the glove box doesn't have to come out. The plate under the glove box has 2 tabs at the front. Press each tab and the plate will drop down, no need to rip it out.
Thanks for video. I didn't need a deep 12mm socket, but installed filters side by side as they were that way upon removal. I had to do the job twice. Also broke a U connector on electrical plug.. So use caution.
Great video man. Though even with these awesome instructions it still took me an hour! This has to be the one time in my life I've been thankful I'm under 6 foot.
Are the filters supposed to slide into a slot or be tight in place, seems like mine were just free floating a little and I'm worried it's not filtering well
If this is the easy version, I'd hate to see the harder ones. What's next - having to remove the windshield to replace the wipers? I brought my car in for a couple of other things anyway, so I asked the mechanic to remove the cabin filters and not replace them. I had just bought the car last year, and apparently nobody had replaced them after 65,000 miles. (Yes, they were very cruddy, creating what I think must be a greater health hazard than if they weren't there.) I'm also not about to spend $20 or so for the two filters that go in there together, when for several previous cars I'd simply buy a 1" furnace filter and cut a piece to fit in the slot inside the glovebox. I'm willing to deal with removing the glovebox door, and the fiddling it takes to reinstall it so the damper works right, but I'm not about to remove the fusebox and crawl around down there for an hour or so every year. For most of the time cars have been around, there was no such thing as a cabin filter. I'm just glad that the engine air filter isn't hard to replace, though I read that the PCV valve is a pain. I'm hoping the mass airflow sensor is easy to take out for cleaning. The picture I saw makes it look like it's very accessible, right on top of the air filter housing.
Thanks for the video ! Very helpful. Putting back the new filters is the most difficult step of the task (which is not part of the video...). A notable thanks to Mazda for making this task very hard and painful.
@@sebparent3501 There was an era when there was too much overlap between Ford and Mazda vehicles, because of the relationship between the two companies. I had some Mazdas with no problems - a 1988 323, a 1996 Miata, a 1996 Protege with a Mazda engine, not the Ford engine that was in some of them. When I pulled out the inside fuse box on my 2008 Mazda 3, it was stamped "Ford Motor Company," and I thought, "Uh oh..." (Right now, I'm in the middle of struggling with reinstalling that fuse box, reinstalling all those plugs and going back to RU-vid to see which way the damn thing is oriented.) I think that era is over. For many years now, the Mazda 2 has been more or less the same car as the Toyota Yaris, which gives me hope. This car will probably go on my short list the next time I get a car.
You would figure putting it back together would be easy but i'm stuck. Not sure how the damn connectors connect back on to the board. NO videos show that of course.
It is just amazingly stupid that Mazda would put a normal, regularly replaced filter in such a place that it requires disassembly of the dash, the glovebox and the electrical systems fuse board. Just.to replace a filter. WTH!!! Strictly speaking the glove box doesn't have to come out, but it is much easier to access the fusebox if you do.
I have a 2015 Mazda 3 and it only take a minute to replace the cabin filter. Just open the glove compartment and reach in and pull the filter out. However, if you have large forearms, you will have to release the arm on the right side of the glove box and that lets it open all the way., So add another 2 seconds.
