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rickm
04-29-2007, 12:00 PM
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5058/img0002nk9.th.jpg

Top one was installed late September, the bottom one is going in today. Behind them are some freshly refinished 1.5" red oak floors from 1916.
repenttokyo
04-29-2007, 12:18 PM
what am i looking at?
Evan
04-29-2007, 12:23 PM
cabin microfilter
repenttokyo
04-29-2007, 02:07 PM
ah ok. i thought it might be it - are they difficult to replace? i have a feeling it might be buried deep in the dash....
E34-520iSE
04-29-2007, 02:08 PM
Yep that's pretty dirty

Cheers,

Shaun M
Barney Paull-Edwards
04-29-2007, 02:19 PM
Not sure about left hookers,assume you take the glove box out but just imagine the fun doing that on a right hooker.Its under/behind/in front of the steering column. come to think of it, forget the word hooker,measn something else there!
Montreal525
04-29-2007, 03:55 PM
ah ok. i thought it might be it - are they difficult to replace? i have a feeling it might be buried deep in the dash....

Nah... Very easy... Once the glove box is out of the way, it's just a matter of removing the trim and sliding it out. About 10 minutes...

Jeff
Robin-535im
04-29-2007, 05:23 PM
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5058/img0002nk9.th.jpg

Top one was installed late September, the bottom one is going in today. Behind them are some freshly refinished 1.5" red oak floors from 1916.
What's PSA? Pretty Stinkin' Amazing? Posting Stuff At_the_moment?
rickm
04-29-2007, 05:53 PM
What's PSA? Pretty Stinkin' Amazing? Posting Stuff At_the_moment?

"Public Service Announcement". I was cleaning my office today and ran into a filter I had ordered a while back. I normally and good about changing those every 6 months (since we have a long pollen season up here and I rarely drive around with the windows open). There was a huge mass of leaf debris in there too. Not as bad as the mouse from a few years ago.

The instructions are on this page:
http://bmwe34.net/e34main/maintenance/gen_maintenance/filters.htm

While you have the glove box off it's a good time to clean it out too. I had 5 years worth of registrations in there along with some other "expired" goodies.
Macv
04-29-2007, 07:05 PM
Damn, what do you drive behind?

I've had mine in for a year, expected it needed a change and once I got it out, noticed it was barely dark.
rickm
04-29-2007, 07:08 PM
Damn, what do you drive behind?

I've had mine in for a year, expected it needed a change and once I got it out, noticed it was barely dark.

Last year I put 9k on the car. 1 trip to Destin, another 2 Hatteras, several to Raleigh and a few trips here and there. My drive to work is 2.5 miles (it would be about 6 if I had to walk/ride due to a river near me that doesn't have a pedestrian walkway).

Car isn't burning anything but like I said I always have the air on and rarely open up the windows at all.