{"id":331,"date":"2017-01-27T05:16:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T05:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2019-09-17T08:35:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:35:07","slug":"passenger-compartment-dust-filter-replacement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/mercedes-slk-230\/passenger-compartment-dust-filter-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger Compartment Dust Filter Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><big><big>2002 Mercedes SLK 230<\/big><\/big><br \/>\n(R170 Chassis)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>At 40,000 miles, I took a look at the passenger compartment dust filter.\u00a0 I was amazed how dirty it was &#8212; apparently replacing it is not on the list of things that are done under Mercedes warrantee.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s located on passenger side just below the glove box.\u00a0 Start by removing two phillips screws:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dust Filter Replacement\" src=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/Discoveries\/IMG_9843.jpg\" alt=\"Dust Filter Replacement\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lower the front of the cover slightly and pull towards you to release it from a tab toward the front of the car:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dust Filter Replacement\" src=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/Discoveries\/IMG_9852.jpg\" alt=\"Dust Filter Replacement\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Slide the two white plastic latches toward the end of the rectangular plastic cover (away from each-other).\u00a0 This photo shows the front latch.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dust Filter Replacement\" src=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/Discoveries\/IMG_9844.jpg\" alt=\"Dust Filter Replacement\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rectangular cover drops down.\u00a0 You can now pull out the dust filter:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dust Filter\" src=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/Discoveries\/IMG_9849.jpg\" alt=\"Dust Filter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Installation of the new filter is the reverse.\u00a0 Be sure to align the plastic tab at the front of the final plastic cover &#8212; before putting the phillips screws back in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Plastic tab at front of lower dashboard cover.\" src=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/Discoveries\/IMG_9850.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic tab at front of lower dashboard cover.\" \/><\/p>\n<pre><small><i>Updated: January\u00a02017<\/i><\/small>\n<small><i>Contact: GerdHoeren at Gmail dot com<\/i><\/small><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2002 Mercedes SLK 230 (R170 Chassis) At 40,000 miles, I took a look at the passenger compartment dust filter.\u00a0 I was amazed how dirty it was &#8212; apparently replacing it is not on the list of things that are done under Mercedes warrantee. It&#8217;s located on passenger side just below the glove box.\u00a0 Start by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/mercedes-slk-230\/passenger-compartment-dust-filter-replacement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Passenger Compartment Dust Filter Replacement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":376,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-331","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions\/708"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gerdhoeren.me\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}