How to Replace Cabin Air Filter 2011-16 Subaru Impreza

Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. We've been selling auto parts for over 30 years. We're dedicated to delivering quality auto parts, expert customer service, fast and free shipping, all backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee. Visit us at 1AAuto.com, your trusted source for quality auto parts.

Your cabin air filter is located right behind your glove compartment, so the first thing you're going to do is remove your door of your glove compartment, or at least get it out of the way. You probably have a glove compartment full of stuff so you're going to want to remove all of that.

Then on the passenger side, there is sort of a rubber post that holds the glove compartment in place. You're going to want to remove that. Then on each side of the glove compartment you have to push in to release the sides like that. There's a tab here and a tab over here that need to be removed. At that point you can remove the glove compartment completely and get it out of the way.

With the glove box out of the way you should be able to just grab this air filter and pull it right out of the heater box. As you can see, mine is due to be changed. You can see the old one looks just like the new one, just a whole lot dirtier.

When you pulled the air filter out, occasionally, if it's really bad, you'll have a whole lot of pine needles and things like that that will fall into the fan. You'll want to vacuum those out with a shop vac or something similar. In our case we were pretty careful, so I'm confident that nothing fell down into the fan. At this point we can take the new cabin air filter, slide it right into place, and there you go.

With the filter in place, we can now put these tabs of the glove box door onto the dash like this. There we go. Then you just push it closed and these tabs will go back into place. Then over here on the passenger side we put this strap on right there and we're done.

Thanks for watching. Visit us at 1AAuto.com for quality auto parts, fast and free shipping, and the best customer service in the industry.