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It is recommended that you change your cabin air filter annually or every 5000 to 10000 miles. Allergy sufferers may consider to change it more often to ensure air quality.

Should you clean it or replace it?

Cabin air filters come in cloth, carbon, and paper. Paper filters should always be replaced, never cleaned. Moreover, the composition of electrostatic and activated carbon cabin air filters is mainly polyester. Hence, it is not suitable to be washed.

In the past, people often neglected the importance of cabin air filters of cars. However, the public have raised their attention to the air quality in recent years and information about replacing cabin air filters can be found online easily. This raise people concern about the cabin air filter before purchasing new vehicles.