2001 Honda Air Conditioner Filters Replacement (other years, too)

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by plazz, Jul 23, 2003.

  1. plazz

    plazz Guest

    How to replace 2001 Honda Accord air conditioner filters:

    The filters are located in a housing behind and below the glove box.

    1. Open the (front) passenger door.
    2. Locate the fuse box cover near the door jam and remove it.
    3. Locate (2) screws, now exposed, that secure the lower dash cover
    (directly under the glove box) and using a #2 Philips screwdriver,
    remove the screws.
    4. Remove the lower dash cover by carefully pulling on its edges.
    NOTE: The cover is held by several ‘clips' on the cover that have been
    pressed into the metal dash framing. This may take patience!
    5. Locate a screw securing the bottom of the glove box on the outside
    bottom edge, in the center. Using a #2 Philips screwdriver, remove it.
    6. Open the glove box door.
    7. Using a #2 Philips screwdriver, remove (2) screws next to the glove
    box door catch (metal loop) inside the box on the backside near the
    top.
    8. Using a small flat blade screwdriver, pry the (2) ½" x ¾" plastic
    screw covers off, located on the left and right side of the inside of
    the box near the top. Using a #2 Philips screwdriver, remove the
    exposed screws.
    9. The glove box can now be removed from the dash. Carefully pull the
    box upand out of the dash. This may take patience!
    10. You will now see (2) metal braces (about 1 ½" wide) mounted
    horizontally. Using a #2 Philips screwdriver, remove screws securing
    both ends of each brace and set these braces aside.
    11. Now you have access to the filter housing cover. It is a plastic
    snap-on type cover about 1 ½" wide, mounted vertically on the filter
    housing. Remove it by prying down on the catch at the bottom of the
    cover.
    12. The (2) white air filters can now be removed. Each of the filters
    are in white plastic ‘frames'. Remove the old filters from these
    frames, place new filters into the frames and place the filter
    ‘frames' back into the filter housing.
    13. Reassemble the glove box and dash by reversing steps 10 through 1.
     
    plazz, Jul 23, 2003
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  2. There's a third screw on the upper left corner of that panel; it's
    hidden beneath another pop-out trim piece directly underneath the radio.
    If you don't take that screw out, you'll break the trim piece. You'll
    know what I'm talking about when you follow the base directions and
    can't seem to get the panel off.

    The good that trim panel goes back on just fine even if you break
    that screwed-in corner off. Better that panel is only $40 to
    replace.
     
    Elmo P. Shagnasty, Jul 26, 2003
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  3. plazz

    plazz Guest


    Thanks for the correction!
     
    plazz, Aug 5, 2003
    #3
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