Geez they are rarely replaced? I can't imagine why.

I've watched many of these videos and yours was the first to explain how to drop the door of the glovebox down and take the time to show each of the screws. Great job

I’ve had my legacy for 3 years and my sister had it for 2 years before me. Dealership told us multiple times that it doesn’t have a cabin air filter and can’t have one and I’ve had to deal with so much dust and dirt in the cabin. Just stumbled across your video today, now I’m on my way to the parts store to get a cabin air filter thank you so much:)

Thanks for the video, just did this today. Some extra tips: 1) You can do this all with a Philips head screwdriver 2) The two bolts at 2:12 hold most of the weight of the thing; when reinstalling put these on first and the other small screws will be easy 3) After you get it all disassembled, pop out the two pins you had to push to get the drawer to drop at the beginning, and re-install those at the very end. Much easier installation. 4) You need to put on the center console's right side panel (left of the glove box) AFTER you put back the glove box trim. It's because they overlap slightly. See 2:33 for how they overlap.

Thank you so much! I will name my first born after you! I just purchased an 03 Baja and I'm excited to do maintenance on it for some reason..

Mine was the same way I almost didn't believe it, no cabin air filter was present went I opened it up!

Take the opportunity to spray that evaporator with biocide while you have the ducts open is my only thought. I chose the orange flavor from Armor All. Still smells fresh after a year for me.

Holy tamales Batman, what a PIA! I just bought a used 2003 Outback LL Bean for my son and doing all kinds of baseline maintenance on it. Great video though, thanks!

Glad I'm deciding to do this while having to replace the dash panel from sun damage anyways! I would have hated having to do all of this twice lmfao

I only watched this video to see the first steps of getting that plastic panel off above the glove box. Gotta re-wrap it because the sun made the material crack and the last owners peeled away at it making it look worse so I'm gonna have to figure out how to take all that layer off and then I'll wrap it. But I'll be checking to see if there's a cabin filter now, the ac is pretty low pressure so I'll have to clean it all out or something and then do what I can. But that panel is the goal.

Thanks for sharing this

Took all of 5 min after watching this,cleaning the filter took long than taking everything out and putting it back :D thanks dude

Is the door that controls the recirculate air function located near the cabin air filter? thanks

Vacuum out the debris where the filter gets installed!

My 2004 Outback Legacy fan suddenly stopped working. I will check fuses but all the searches has told me the motor is bad.

Would really appreciate seeing cabin filter change on 2006 Outback. Have had a new filter ready for several years.

Ah, it is a 2 filter, stacked setup! But now I have to persue different angles to find that smell!!!

Very good 👍

thanks

I need to replace the heavily sun damaged panel directly above the glove box. I have the part but can’t figure out how to do it. Please please make a video!

Thanks man

I have an 06 legacy gt and was curious if you know how I would go about changing the vent mode actuator. The ac and heat work but I can't change it to any other modes like feet, defrost etc. Thanks again for the post! I have an 02 outback as well and gonna do this to it now!

Looks like they never intended for it to be replaced, judging by how "guick" it is to replace. Maybe that's why some are discovered not to even have on in there.

I can’t get the damn glove compartment off the hinges. It feels like it’s gonna break

Nice video. What filter(s) did you find to fit into that space?

When I look up cabin air filter on a parts site it shows two pieces (filters). One looks like the rectangular one you just installed but the other is oddly shaped. Where the heck does it go? 2004 Legacy Outback 6 cyl.

Awesome video. Do you know how to get to the vent mode actuator? My car is stuck on foot and defrost and I can’t locate the actuator to check it out. Thanks!

Im not totally confident id be able to get it all back together!?!

Wow that was a lot of work. Thank God mine is so much easier. Thank you though.

Thank you for this video but man, getting my glove out was a PITA and took forever. I kept coming back after thinking it was going to snap. Ordered filter. Have any advice about back door not opening? ‘04 Outback.thx

So it comes without a filter from factory?

What is that other filter that was in there to the left?

Jesus christ! Why is this, like, the hardest air filter to get to in the world?!

I can't figure it out on 1999 subaru legacy

maybe subaru should have used the metal for all those screws to make a proper headgasket

well, this quick replacement is beyond my skill.

Thanks for showing. What a painful design!!!

You could make my life easier by changing mine for me. 😂

Okay thank you very much for this video it thoroughly helped me because the directions with the box sucked. But that little clip you had said on the bottom should have put the camera down below so that we could see what you were doing. I'm a visual personand it will give me a better idea thankfully I'm handy LOL and I figured it out but just something to think about but awesome video thank you so much for doing that me and my life so much easier

This looks like a giant pain. It takes 30 seconds to do it on my charger.

Damn it's giving me a headache just looking at it lol.. but it must be done ✔

Good grief, what a PITA badly engineered access!

Way too much bs to change one come in subaru do better

The cabin air filter is a gimmick there is no reason to even put it in the car if you think about it every time you open and close your doors or roll your windows down you get the outside air anyway