Created on: 2018-04-25
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a dirty, dusty or clogged air filter on Mitsubishi Outlander
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Open the door. We'll go inside, and just here on the left side, the lower part is the hood release. Pull it open. Lift up on the hood and find the safety release. It's a lever here. Push it to the passenger side to unlock it and lift it up. The prop rod's here. We'll put it in place.
To change the air filter, there's two big metal clips in the top. There's one here. Pop it open. Pop this one open. The air box sits in some plastic clips at the bottom, so you kind of lift it up and out, and you can separate it. And then lift the air filter out.
This one's not in too bad of shape. I'll reuse it. These should be changed every year or 12,000 miles. When reinstalling the air filter, got to make sure that this outer part of the air intake duct clips into the bottom of the air filter housing, which it can come unclipped. And then it'd be very difficult to put back in. It's got some tabs at the bottom that need to fit into the tabs at the bottom of this housing. I'm going to get it started in those tabs first.
So, just like that, it's caught in the tabs. I'll keep it together and just slide the air filter in between, and then hold it together like this. Put the locks over, and now I know it's clipped together. If you don't get the bottom clipped together after you do the air filter, the engine will sound a lot noisier than it should be because you've just cut the intake open and it's not closed off. So, you just want to make sure you grab and lock in those tabs at the bottom first. Otherwise, it's kind of tricky to get them in with the filter in place.
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