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Megane Meg III cabin filter

Turbell

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Never been impressed with my Meg GT Line Estate heater.....sorry climate, I'm more used to three knobs, hot to cold, fan speed and up and down.
Think I'm a bit analogue for all this shizzle, anyways thought I'd give pollen filter a swop out.......not much on Youtube, most were LHD swops, and of course our cousins across the water had given RHD location a great deal of thought......Top and bottom of it, the clutch pedal has to move out of the way, bit of a upside down job but not impossible.

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Car has a decent service history, but with these I think it's oil and filter and a nose around with inspection lamp, stick it through wash and wack a £250 bill in, I swopped diesel filter and that was deffo original even though car is a late '12 plate and had about 58k on it at the time, so i was confident original cabin filter would still be in.

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Thought I was right, as it's fooked, but appears to have a '13 date on it, so perhaps it's had one sometime, it's a laugh trying to get it in......like posting a big lasses tits through a play houses letterbox.....

All done now, reckon on an hour if you tackle it yourself first time, there's four 13mm on pedal assembly, one hidden up top, deep socket and wobble bars are a must, heater seems all good now.
 
I hope you did do whole job in the 0.3 (18 minutes) that we get to replace theses during a schedule service.😖

As yours is a 12 plate I would recommend replacement of the clutch pedal assembly nuts that fix on to the four studs as the early ones were of a crimp lock type & are once use only.
These were replaced with M8 flanged nuts which are still technically a once use nut according to the repair manual, but you can use them twice if required.
 
It's a 62 plate, I meant late 2012, they were flanged nuts, so does that mean a dealer tech has been in before?
18 mins?....that'd be a stopwatch, tools in hand job I reckon!
 
It's a 62 plate, I meant late 2012, they were flanged nuts, so does that mean a dealer tech has been in before?
18 mins?....that'd be a stopwatch, tools in hand job I reckon!
Possibly & yes
The 18 minutes is for LHD, but they never increased the service time for RHD and we are now stuck with it.
Yet if you costed the replacement as per operations carried out for a cabin filter for RHD (R&R clutch pedal assembly, R&R filter) it would be the hour as you said but no one will pay that hour to replace a filter that they can not see or under stand its function, hence why they do not get done by some independent service centres & I could rant on about repair times given for some repair times.:offtopic.gif:
 
Yeah I was having a look when I was fiddling around with the clutch pedal switches the other week, I thought fuck that.
 
With the pedal assembly dropped forward , it's not that bad, it looks impossible, cos the end cap you remove by taking two torxs self tappers out is only half the height of the filter you're gonna push back in but end cap is sort of a right angle bit....IE it extends along the bottom a bit, it takes a bit to get it into your head that you rag the old one out and sort of squeeze the new one in.
The Fram filter I bought is also shaped to fit...there's a point on the top .....it's slash cut at an angle, i thought I'd dropped a bollock cos I matched it by part number, but feeling inside the housing, it's shaped like that but Renault filter that came out just has a loose flap at the top to seal it.
Also worth mentioning OE filters have the pleats running length ways so they scrunch up easier than the Fram one, the pleats went top to bottom, so looked a bit more bruised after I stuffed it in.
Magnetic torx bits would be handy too, cos if it drops, it'll go down behind carpet/sound deadening.
 
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