It’s Christmas Eve – I’m not seeing my gorgeous Cath today, and although I am a man, I am ready for Christmas itself, I have a few hours to kill – and it’s that time again, time to make Olivia run a little bit better than she has been over the last few weeks.
A treat, of good oil, and a bit of TLC.
First off – air filter – anyone want to hazard a guess as to which one is the old, and which one is the new one ?
50 points for you house if you get it right, 50 points deducted, if you get it wrong 🙂
To be honest, I think that is one of the worst looking air filters I have ever removed from a car.
Now, I know damn well, since I’ve owned this lump, it’s not had it’s pollen filter replaced, and the windscreen blowers has about as much oooomph as an asthmatic ant, so something quite clearly wasn’t all right there, and I was fully prepared to do a lot of work to get that working, bearing in mind it’s now winter.
However, let’s first do the cheap and simple (sorta) option, and replace a filter.
Again, a test, which is the new, and which is the old ?
Right: No brainer right ?
If only it was that easy.
In VAG’s infinite wisdom, the location for the pollen filter, is under the left hand side of the windscreen – it makes getting at it a bit of a pain, which might not be hugely evident form the following shots
Above: It looks easy enough right ? Well, it is very tight in there, so tight in fact that trying to get the filter to fit, and clip/click into place when there really isn’t enough headroom to have the filter above the filter recepticle is a little deciveing.
Once in however, it is rather neat, and then just make sure you tidy up all the little plastic/rubber edges away to their location, otherwise they look crap, and foul up neat closing of the bonnet.
Below: All complete.
To be fair, it is neat and unobtrusive, but the first time you replace this, it’s a definite test of patience, dexterity, and smallness of hands (I definitely fail at that last one)
And – the heaters are now most certainly *NOT* an asthmatic ant, definitely more usable in the winter months now.
