stop spending 15 20 30 on air filters for your cabin i show you how to make your own
cabin air filter for five dollars that'll last forever
okay in most cars the cabin filter can be found in the glove box and you can see the
plate there that covers the hole where you put the filter
in the santa face case this is what it looks like when it comes out it's got this plastic
casing and here's the filter it's um pleated so you know it's um blocking a lot of the
air trap airflow which is what i don't want right now um this car doesn't cool all that
great and i'm gonna try to cut back the airflow and i'm tired of buying these filters they're
now 15 each for the cheapest one and i think it blocks way too much airflow so that's what
it looks like when you take it out so it should be pretty simple to replace this with a washable
filter
all right my santa fe has this basket that puts the you put the um filter in this filter's
all dirty of course but it goes inside the basket and goes back into the car now some
cars you just get this filter and it slides into the slot and then you have a panel like
this on the front that closes it up um these filters are getting pretty expensive the cheapest
i could find was 15 online unless i wanted to get some no-name chinese brand which i'm
not gonna buy um but i think they're overkill for a car basically it protects the evaporator
from getting dirt in it but it's also filled without
pollution which back in the day you didn't even have a filter like this you just had
a regular filter if you had a filter at all so i'm not going to use this i'm not going
to buy these for 15 anymore i got this chassis
and i went to home depot and i picked up this see if i could get it into shop this costs
five dollars it's called the filter it basic custom fit air cleaning filter and basically
you can cut it up
to this shape cut it up
and then use either tie wraps like this
or these little like um devices but um you get this when you buy a filter but i'm i'm
going to use basic tie wraps so basically this device is going to hold this filter and
i'll put it in and i'll tie wrap it to these little edges of this filter case and that's
what i'm going to use to filter out the um air so instead of using this 15 thing i buy
this entire sheet that cost five dollars and you only need to do it once after you put
the filter in there basically you wash this off with a hose blow it dry with your leaf
blower and you'll be fine you could use it again and again and again multiple times um
this thing i don't know what the um fpr rate of it is it could be as high as um nine and
that's a lot of instruction for the air to get through with these pleats this is probably
a mpr of like four let's say or something
now if you don't have one of these some cars you just get the filter and you slide it in
the slot basically and um if you have that you could actually get one of these these
are sold at home depot for 24.
and they're reusable washable and the frame is adjustable and they're usually for air
conditioners
and what you could do is you could you're gonna have to adjust it even more you're gonna
have to cut the plastic even smaller because it's a smaller fit and you can use something
like this if you don't have one of these plastic racks and it's funny thing is this this cardboard
is actually thicker than this this plastic edge on here but it should still work the
same so if you don't have one of those plastic racks you can get one of these and this is
washable as well
so that's another way to do it i'm not going to do it that way though i'm going to just
i'll show you the results
so basically for five dollars i have a reusable filter here and my my bracket and you just
put the filter in there like that
now what you do is you can see through there and see that there's um
these black plastic things you just make a hole on the corners and you use tie wraps
to hold it on there and i'll show you that when it's done
so here you go this is what it looks like with the tie wraps i might put another one
here but i think it's it's pretty good
basically looks like that so some cars have this plastic basket and some don't depending
if you have the plastic basket or not you can do this way or you can buy that piece
and make your own but it'll save you in the long run because these are only it's a one
time thing you you take it out every three months wash it with a hose and blow dry it
with your leaf blower and you'll be good to go
as i said those filters cost over 15 dollars right now who knows how much they're going
to cost in the future plus they block a lot of airflow
so here we are back in the car and here's the um filter bracket with the filter installed
and we just slide it back in back in ready to go so basically we just replaced the filter
that cost 15 every like say year six months these things get really dirty in six months
and we just replaced it with a filter that we could clean with a hose dry off with our
our leaf blower and put it back in and we're all good to go again
How To Make Your Own Cabin Air Filter