I just replaced my cabin air filter/pollen filters.
My car has 20k miles now, bought at 16.5 K, not sure when it was replaced before.
See the pictures, new ones are white unless old ones were some kind of charcoal activated (my BMW has those)

Replacing filters are very easy, took me 10-15 min at most, similar to my Acura MDX previously I had owned (actually mdx was more difficult)

 

Where are they located?

 

ooo better go look at mine. thx

 

they are behind the glove box on passenger side

lie down on your back in the car on passenger seat, look under the glove box. (stick your head under the glove box)

remove 3 screws--glove box will come out

now remove 4 more screws from black panel which is visible after removing glove box.

you may have to just pull and remove leather wrapped trim piece around the glove box which has switch for opening the glove box.

now you should see a rectangular white panel with two clips on side just remove that and there is your pollen filter, swap them put things back together and done.

probably saved a bunch, I ordered filters from HWS with whole bunch of other parts.

 

Great time to do this is when you are replacing the leather trim dash pieces as you have to get to this anyways. Will be swapping out my old ones with carbon filters once my new dash pieces come in.

What year is your car wildcat? Just curious if age also plays a factor

 

It's 2009
I don't think age will matter but mileage because that's what would expose to dirt.

 

[QUOTE=007 Vantage;4173805]Great time to do this is when you are replacing the leather trim dash pieces as you have to get to this anyways. Will be swapping out my old ones with carbon filters once my new dash pieces come in.

Just curious where you ordered your replacement dash pieces from?

 

Aston martin OEM replacement leather parts are surprisingly reasonable. You can order from astonmartincarparts.com in the UK. Or from your dealer


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Aston Martin HWM. They are surprisingly very reasonable and the factory makes them to your exact VIN. Both instrument cluster binnacle and passenger dash trim piece costs less than $500 shipped!m at those prices I have no idea why anybody goes to a thirs party upholsterer to reglue their old ones when they can get brand new ones with the updated stronger adhesive. All the upholstery shops were quoting me $800-1000min. Seems like a no brainer

Ordered the charcoal filters off ebay for super cheap, will be putting them in once the dash pieces arrive.

 

[QUOTE=007 Vantage;4174110]Thanks for the feedback, I'll try online. My local AM dealer quoted me $1400 plus tax for the passenger airbag cover piece and passenger trim piece. Seems pretty high to me for those two pieces.

 

passenger airbag cover is $485 from astonmartincarparts.com in UK

http://www.astonmartincarparts.com/p...63-190754.html


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[QUOTE=007 Vantage;4174110]what charcoal filters are you talking about?
can you post a link?
I hope it will fit DB9 too

 

these

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...iglink20664-20

see this thread

https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...n-vantage.html

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Found this thread and decided I needed to change my cabin air filters. Thanks to Wildcat for excellent instructions on how they are accessed. Got them out in just a few minutes. Tried to get the ATP RA-16 filters mentioned in this thread as available from Amazon locally, but found they were not in stock anywhere.

A diligent counterman at O'Reilly auto parts found a cross reference from the ATP number to a Microgard plain filter #3669 which lists for $16.99 and an equivalent Charcoal filter which is a WIX #24826 at $20.99. I used the Microgard which was an exact duplicate to what I removed. Any O'Reilly store should have these in stock or can get them quickly.

A word of caution - When removing the glove box, note that there is an elastic lanyard attached to a plastic clip on the outboard side of the box. I imagine this provides the spring to close the glove box. In case the lanyard slips off the clip, before removing the black plastic piece behind the glove box, note through which hole the lanyard is routed so you can assemble things properly.