MK7 GTI Cabin (Pollen) Filter DIY Install
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- In this video, we show you how to replace the cabin filter on a MK7 GTI. This would apply to MK7 GTI, Golf, and Golf Sportwagen. We hope this video is helpful.
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Great thx. Here's some extra info. from my experience with a RH drive: DO NOT LET THE THE released DOOR DROP more than 5 cm. If you let the door drop down quickly like in the video, it can break a mechanism to one side. Once it is down 5 cm observe the arm on the LH side of the box and how it slides in the mechanism. You can then slowly lower the lid completely.
There are 3 clips on the top edge of the filter cover. They have little bumps that locate. Press down on the one nearest the steering wheel & shove in the lightest trim removal tool while you press down on the centre one and pull on the vertical tab of the the cover a little. Still with the tool in, press down on the LH side clip & remove the cover. Bevel the edges of the clips where they “cut into” your fingers for comfort next time. If female, try not to break a nail.
VERY carefully, free up the filter and pull it out ONLY a cm.
Now you should slip a thin piece of crardbroad in under the filter to prevent debris that scrapes from the top of the filter falling down. Trim it to the same size as your filter. VERY carefully remove the filter. It needs to be pulled a little to the left. Carefully lift out the cardboard-plus-debris. If any debris falls down, vacuum it out.
Two little rubber stoppers may fall out., They fit on the prongs that are held behind the release buttons. If dislodged, retrieve after lid is hanging. Try not to dislodge by keeping lid lifted a little while pressing on the buttons Refit & secure with Super Glue.
The release buttons are on the end of 10 cm long arms. Make them easier to flex by 2mm nicks on the engine end
Very helpful. I blindly pushed a CD into the slot that let it drop behind the glove box - instead of into the CD player!!!
This video was exactly what I needed. Pushing “The two buttons” allowed me to pull the glove box forward and access my misplaced CD. Thank you so much!
Paul, I think I love you for making this video. I went to the dealer and they wanted to charge me $60 for the pollen filter change alone. I asked if they were crazy cause this was *hopefully* an extremely simple process.
I can't believe how easy this is for my alltrack im doing this today! my old Ford Fiesta st required you get in an acrobatic position, tear apart the passenger footwell, perform wizardry and reduce your hand size to even get at the cover screws. and then the only way to insert the filter was scrunching it back to fit, which ruined the filter half the time.. thank you Dap for the how to video, and vw for actually putting thought into this filter placement.
This was very helpful, thank you! Especially after several posts show the filter to be accessed from under the hood. This is a departure from the typical location under the passenger kick panel.
You just saved me $50. I had a mk5 Jetta and had do replace this filter upside down. Funny how the dealership service advisor didn't mention this huge improvement in cabin filter access in my mk7. I'm calling him out on this tomorrow and my back also thanks you!
Easiest cabin filter install I've ever seen/done. Good job VW engineers.
So incredibly helpful. I was about to start trying to dismantle the side of the console, which is what I had to do on my prior ride, a Mazda6.
I really appreciate this video 🙌🏻 it help me today changing my cabin filter . Now my car won't smell funky 😷😁
These short how to videos that focus on basic maintenance are the best. Dap, perhaps you could have a playlist of similar how to maintenance videos? Thank you.
thanks for sharing! would have paid the dealer 100 bucks to do this! SO EASY!
How did that arm on the right side get released? Mine is still locked together when I press those rubberized buttons and let my glove box drop, so it's not letting the box drop all the way down
Thanks Paul. Just used this today! Note: There is a little lip on the clips to press down on (once the glovebox is out of the way). If you keep pressing down and nothing is happening, just move further out and press down just on the outer edge!
I wish I understood exactly what you mean. I can't get the buttons to budge, pushing up, pushing in, etc.
Very important point. VW really cheated out on those and they're not readily apparent, identified in any manner, etc. They're also very fragile, just like the three lower "hinge" clips that would be an embarrassment on the model plastic cars I was begin the later 1970s.
Thanks for the DIY video Paul!
Super helpful (and easy). Thanks for posting it.
Love your videos!! Always very helpful. Almost put my filter in wrong!
Love it. Easy if you know the steps. Mine was overdue.
Just installed the charcoal activated cabin filter that I ordered from you guys. Car was having a musky odor, so I hope that clears it up! Great video, great service, you have a loyal customer right here
+SuperNova0216 thanks you so much for the support we appreciate it very much.
I feel confident ordering from your store. Plus, as soon as I installed the filter, the smell was gone. Quick fix!
Thanks man, third time I’ve used this video.
Awesome, I appreciate the “how to” videos. Thanks so much.
Thanks! This was very helpful!
Thank you for the video. I just starting getting an odour last night in my mk7 gti.. pretty sure its the cabin filter.
Thanks for the video! Still good for a 2019 GTI Mk 7.5, and works on a 2019 Tiguan SEL as well.
Thank You for sharing, Super useful video,
Your the best! Love the content!
Just a note - it is the same process for the Golf R.
super easy install!
Great video once again thank you.
Very helpfull thanks buddy!!!!!
Easy peasy 👌🏼 thanks!
Wow it's really easy. My 2014 Nissan Sentra is not difficult but more involved.
great vid, thanks!
i like this set up much better than the one i have in my 2011 Tiguan
Yup these have improved a bunch
Thanks.. please also show the Oil Filter change. In Detail, how to take that dirty filter out? And put back in?
good vid thanks
thank you!
Thank you, I will save 30-40 bucks the next time I will need to do it.
Thank you for this video! I just changed mine at 19k on a TSI S Sportwagen and it's the exact same procedure! only difference that black part under the cabin air filter door on mine says made in Turkey and not Germany like on your GTI ;-(
Bought and installed my filter. Thanks so much Paul!
Thanks for the purchase. We appreciate it very much
Same process replace on the new vw polo model 2019!
Worked on my e-Golf as well, but boy did I have to press upward on those tabs with a lot of force.
Same with my gti i was afraid to crack it way to much force needed on mine
Thank you! I thought I was doing something wrong! (I have an e-Golf too. Love it!)
Thank you
I remember the days when for Chevy trucks, you'd have to unscrew half the dash just to get to the cabin filter. Vw made this super easy, assuming you dont have a ton of stuff in your glove box 😁
Will this help with bad smells in the car? Looking to get my air con serviced and cleaned would it make sense to get new cabin and air filters before or after the process?
Always the best videos! I was also wondering myself about the charcoal filters, what the difference was.. now that I have an AllTrack and a faulty PCV that gives off a nice oil smell in the cabin. :) And a side note, is this the same process for the new MK7 Jetta?
Here's my take on activated charcoal cabin air filters. They don't destroy the cause of the odors, they trap and contain them. Which is fine, but they can only contain so much. Once they're saturated, the rest of the air going through them is not only carrying it's own vapors but it's passing it through all the trapped vapors accumulated from the previous months too. Which is why they recommend to change them more frequently. But I don't think it's frequent enough.
I have 2 stage filters on my indoor air purifier, 1 stage is just activated charcoal, not woven in to fabric just pure activated charcoal. Except they are about 5x the size of these cabin filters. They're rated for 3 months before they lose their ability to absorb more odor. And they arent near a combustion engine they're just indoors. So how long do you think a charcoal filter will last when it's that close to a combustion engine? Not 20,000 miles that's for sure. Probably not 3 months either since it's so much smaller than the ones in my indoor filter yet has to handle 1000x more air and odor. So hown long before the charcoal filter just becomes a regular filter? Not 3 months. 3 weeks? 3 days? 3 hours? Hard to say.
You'll notice a difference at first for sure, but by the time the charcoal is saturated you'll have adjusted to the smell and won't notice it.
It'd be fine if the charcoal filters were like $10 but they aren't, they're like $30-$50 here, twice as much as the regular filter. Which might make you inclined to not replace it as frequently.
So my advice, instead of spending twice as much on a charcoal filter and replacing it once a year, get a regular filter and change it twice a year. Cost the same. 6 month old activated charcoal cant beat a brand new filter. Or get something more advanced like the Mann FR filter that's more than just activated charcoal, even though that might cost 5x as much, it would last longer and filter much more. But again, unless I had a real allergy or lived in a really polluted city, I'd still rather buy 5 regular filters and replace them 5x a year than 1 advanced filter that I try to make last as long as possible because it cost me $80. But these are Canadian prices. YMMV.
Lastly, it's really important you replace that grommet on the right or the car thinks the glove box is always open and keeps that little light inside the glovebox on at all times. And it gets hot. Possible fire hazard if you had a glovebox stuffed with dry leaves and zippo lighters. But mostly just annoying.
Is there a second filter accessible from the engine through the cowl, or is this (through glovebox) the only one filter for the cabin? Thank you!
Thanks Deutsche Auto Parts. I have a VW Golf 2012 MK 6 Diesel Bluemotion. My question [which my mechanic is unsure how to answer] is this: would the charcoal cabin filter be more efficient at filtering small diesel/carbon particles than an ordinary cabin air filter? I am purely interested in reducing any possible negative diesel carbon particles i.e. carcinogenic effects. So I am interested more in the air quality effects rather than odour reduction.
Thanks
Thank you very much!
Just a note, I had two little rubber stoppers fall out, but I quickly found out their location within the glove compartment legs that initially are clipped out. Just in case it happens to anyone else out there.
Catch the Wave You can see they are totally missing in the video here. I just know my garage would not notice them falling out - do I change my own filters.
The two buttons to ‘pop’ the glove box door are tricky and I can’t get the glove box door to open. Any ideas?
Greetings - Many thanks for the video! In process of changing the pollen filter, but the guide wheel for the arm (i'm assuming) fell out - not sure where and how to get it back in, and close up the dash cover? Smaller grooved wheel on one side, versus the other side of the wheel... Vielen Dank -
christy j beenenga I had same thing fall out it was grooved wheel anglued.where exactly I put back.tks
I can get the door released but I cannot push those three tabs down to get off that cover to save my life tried for a half hour… Thanks Volkswagen for making the three tightest clips ever.
Hello, right in this arena by the cabin filter, every time I start the car, a loud clicking noise happens for about 2-5 seconds and then stops( and occasionally when I’m driving) any ideas as to what this could be? Great video
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Looks waaaaay easier than the Mk6.
Thanks for this! How often would you recommend changing these if you drive only like 6000km per year? Also i live in Canada, is there a way to get these without paying exorbitant shipping charges?
Lots of places in Canada sell them. Even NAPA has them. Or you could buy 5 at a time, save on shippjng. Keep them sealed and dry though.
my 2017 gti they stopped including felt on the inside of the glovebox. lame. even my moms mazda 6 has the felt in there so you dont hear stuff rattling around
Anyone know how the air care climatronic system works? Are there more filters to replace than the regular cabin filter? What is an active biogenic filter?
konsul2006 Still just one filter. The active biogen filter is just a more advanced one that filters more stuff (for people with allergy) you can use that or the normal charcoal one or even the real cheap plain paper one.
Thx for the video. Coupla points gleaned from a workshop manual. Do not let the door drop > 5 cm. Good practice to slip something in under the filter before removal to prevent anything like debris falling down & messing up anything downstream. First-hand experience ....bulk up finger strength with daily attempts to push up the buttons until you succeed. A hot day will help by making the buttons softer. If 2 rubber things drop, retain them better with BluTac. If filter is carbon-filled, clean only the top surface with gentle sucking to avoid removing carbon.
More. Yet to develop sufficient strength to press those buttons and thus see behind the glovebox, could VW have made the lowering arm detachable at the side and done away with the pesky super-strong buttons and used a couple of screws to hold? That's how my last car worked. The "arm" was a simple piston-in-cylinder damper.
More (from actual experience). Be sure u r pressing on the release buttons and not some immovable part. Free up one button then the other. Two little rubber stoppers may fall out., They fit on the prongs that are held behind the release buttons. If dislodged, retrieve after lid is hanging. Try not to dislodge by keeping lid lifted a little while pressing on the buttons. Refit stoppers & secure with Super Glue.
If not found use 2mm thick rubber. The buttons are on the end of 10 cm long arms. Make them easier to flex by 2mm nicks on the engine end.
Mine still doesn't come out that easy, mine is a pain in the ARSE..same tabs, but certainly don't release so easy..what's the secret?
Would the linked cabin filter for the MK7 GTI's also work for a 2018 MK7.5? Thanks
Yes, same procedure and hardware, though see my other related comment.
its funny how much dealers will try to charge you for something like this
40 dollars the filter is 15 dollars lol.
The dealer was trying to charge me $80 to replace it today
Dealer tried to charge me $100 this week for this 😂
Half the time they just blow out your old one with compressed air
One thing to keep in mind when doing this, if you let the door drop down quickly like he did in the video, it will break the mechanism on the right. Your glove box will make a weird squaking / creaking noise if you do that. More than likely his broke before and probably does make noise, which was why it fell down so fast.
My glove box door is not broken nor does it make any noise. Sorry to hear if that happened to you.
God damn right. Tell em dap
Nope, that's how they all drop down. The mechanism on the right comes out almost every time unless you drop it with the delicately of putting a newborn into a crib, but it's hard to not let it drop fast because you need both hands to open it, If the mechanism comes out you literally just put it back. Its not even screwed in it just sits in there. So just put it back. Done. Fixed. If yours makes a sound it needs lubricantion. Put some silicone grease on it.
Same thing for the Audi A3 and s3 I believe
Didn't realize how much VW cheapened the car just from the MK7 to the MK7.5. The 7.5 doesn't have a felt lined glove box, or a locking glove box. I also see a CD Player there??? Don't have that either. haha. I guess you get compensated by the standard Performance Pack?
Question for you. As I start my car there is a clicking sound that repeats from the area this video is taken for about 10 seconds and then goes away. Any idea on what this could be and how to fix it? Its not the engine.
There could be something wrong (stuck?) with the CD player that's mounted in the glove box. A lot of people don't even know it's there.
@@GrotrianSeiler There are lots of electric motors and solenoids in these cars. All the whirring and clicking going on can cause alarm bells to ring but they are probably normal.
Be prepared to lose some finger nails. But this is a great how2 video
hi, i was womdering whats that round switch inside storage at left side up
a control for the AC to cool the cd player and infotainment computer in the dash.
@@kevinsargent5228 thank you, is that what they call the car fridge, when you turn it and it cools things inside there?
It's a little vent hole. When you run the A/c some of the air enters the glovebox area and keeps whatever is stored in there cool. It's definitely not a fridge but the air coming out of that vent should be ice cold if you have the A/c turned all the way up.
I bought a replacement filter from VW and they sent me a charcoal filter. How long will that last? 19,000 miles?
largol33t1 10.000 miles or one year whichever comes first
@@x0rbian Not according to VW's own maintenance schedule. When you answer a question, you're obligated to research the subject matter beforehand. Otherwise you mislead others, as you did here.
I have a 2000 Mk4 gls 2.0 car dose not overheat but after driving it spits all the coolant out. I changed all sensors an the thermostat. The water pump is not stuck or broken. Do you think I bought a dud thermostat? ... Cooling fan works hear an there.
So cheap of VW that my 2019 GTI Autobahn doesn't have the felt lined glove box with the lock or the A/C glove box control/vent. Recouping money lost from TDI Dieselgate? :(
VW wanted 170 dollars to get an oil change. Bought vw 508 spec oil and filter for 70 bucks total
The video doesn't show how the brake on the right side is released when you lower the glove box door. In the center of the plastic brake "ring", press the sliding bar out towards the door and the bar attached to the brake will release. You can see them putting it back in place at the 2:30 mark in the video. Also, to release the clips on the air filter cover, I used my right hand to apply outward (opening) pressure on the plastic nub on the right side of the filter cover. While doing that, I used a small screwdriver to pry apart the clips at the top, and the air filter cover popped off super easy. Great video otherwise!
My mechanic broke my glovebox trying to do this
“You can just push them down” yeah...no not on my mine. I fucked with the clips for 30 minutes before giving up. Ill have to trust the dealership to hopefully do it.
Yep, I'm a now retired mechanical design engineer and was also frustrated by that. Key is knowing that the lower three tabs on top protrude a little more than the upper three tabs. Have to push down on them with a fingernail (long handle screw driver might be better, but be careful) and then the cover hinges down on the lower three tabs, which are so incredibly cheap that there almost laughable.
To me that arrow is point up, not down. But it's blurry. And the new filter has no arrow. Oof
Wow the things I still don't know about my car lol
I feel ya
Fuck these cars are designed well
Jeez. I can't believe that it's like paying a tech $100 to put a vhs tape in a vcr.
@1:10 press the tabs "which" way. Down or Up ?? The arrows point up.. Either way with much force I can get no movement on the tabs. I'm about to forcefully rip the door off and cover it with duct tape.
I figured out the issue.
Seems the 3 PUSH DOWN tabs don't stick out far enough beyond the housing itself WHICH ALSO HAS 3 plastic tabs in the exact same position sandwiched just above it so it looks like ONE combined tab. Whose the VW idiot engineer who tortured us with that? I was trying to push down the housing tabs which don't move. Since its dark in there and the tabs are tightly sandwiched together (looking like one tab), I had to use a thin bladed screwdriver to separate the tabs, starting from the left. The obvious tabs at the bottom of the panel act to allow the panel to swing down. Don't break them like I did trying to remove the door from the bottom. It really needs a redesign.
Way too much useless talk at the beginning. There should be more focus on the details regarding the three tabs that release the filter covers. They aren't marked nor are they intuitive. They're also very delicate, with very little room for exploratory release prior to failure. Drop the glovebox as (well) explained here and you'll see 6 very cheap tabs (three sets of two). The lower three tabs are ever so slightly longer than the top tabs. Carefully push down on the LOWER three tails with a fingernail to release. Better yet, use a long handle flat blade screwdriver. Guys like the poster probably do this routinely. Do this just once and it becomes simple. But do it the first time without more specific instructions and it's not. And trust me, VW left no room for error here. Basically, the plastic tabs will break if you look at them the wrong way. I'd have specified lower tabs that are thicker, protruded a little more and had two ribs for a firmer grip and more intuitive process. But that would cost money...
A 2 minute job, where a dealer will charge you $50-$100 to do this job for you. Wow.
I dropped all the shit in my glove box onto the floor. Hahaha, then the light switch on the right side, you can see it in the video, ya well that whole thing fell apart. Clumsy! Lucky I didn't break any parts or I'd be fucken done.... DONE.
Lindsay VW $97 labor only lol
Thank you