To replace the air filter on your Civic It’s easy. You will be asked to open the hood, access the air filter, remove the filter as well as carry out a few other steps. You can carry out this tutorial of 6 chapters in 30 minutes. Take your flat head screwdriver and your vacuum and let’s get started!
30 minutes
6
1
$40
Open the hood
Turn off the ignition, set the parking brake. Pull on the hood release lever and open the hood.
Access the air filter
Disconnect the airflow meter connector. To do this, push on the tab and pull on the connector.
Using a flat head screwdriver, push in the two retaining tabs on the wiring harness plastic guide. Then remove the guide.
Remove the filter
Unclip the four holding latches on the airbox cover. You can use a screwdriver to help you.
Lift the flange.
Take out the air filter.
Clean the airbox
Before putting in the new filter in place, it is important to clean out any impurities or leaves stuck in the filter compartment.
Install the new filter
Take the new filter.
Compare the new filter with the old one to make sure they’re identical.
You can now put the new filter in place. To put the flange in, incline it so that the interlocking stud go in first.
Lock the flange with the four latches.
Finalise the reassembly
Then clip the harness back on.
Reconnect the airflow meter connector.
Operation complete.