LexusIS-TL

Well, I feel the DIY is great no matter how easy the solution is. We can never have too much directions and like you mentioned, it encourages people to do it on their own even more. Even do a DIY for taking off all those plastic engine covers, etc.

BounceNY

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I agree, even these simple DIY's are great. I think it will definatley show some that it really is very easy to do and save them money. Also, I'm sure there will be less 'new' thread's on these simple questions.

Anyways, thanks OP! was about to do mine this week...

ahohnstein

nice writeup. good pictures. thanks for contributing.

llamaboiz

I just thought of something, all that black stuff on the filter = brake dust(?)

15951

Thanks for taking the time to put that together. It's intimidating for many of us to work on our cars for fear of breaking something, and tutorials like this one essentially idiot proof the process.

XtrabOoSt

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Good Stuff!..*

brel523

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

When installing the Joe Z intake(after the AC filter change) I took many pics of the clips(at different positions of how they work) that hold the engine panels in place and plan to explain how they come out, get reset, and get put back on. I actually pulled my covers off by brute force since I didn't know they could be 'easily' removed. Only found that out after I tried to put them back on. Lessons learned... and will share with everyone else.

I wrote the Yet Another DIY Oil Change for IS350 and if it hadn't been for other members posting their experiences, I wouldn't have attempted my oil change.

Thanks again for CL and it's members!

Buds

Thanks for the DIY!

kickin8

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I would change it once a year or every 15K miles....hey, it's the air you breathe!

I know autozone carries it for ~$20 also.....

PMok

thanks for the writeup! I was just about to do this myself, and funny thing is, 9 times out of 10 I bet I'd go on CL and do a search for something before thinking to look in the manual to see if it was in there. Yup, CL is that good.

I too was curious to see if the filter is used for other Toyota cars, so I took the part number from the writeup and did some searching, came up with this:

http://www.partsquick.com/ProductDetail.asp?i=385690

So yeah you can walk into a Toyota dealer and ask for the 07 Camry cabin air filter and hopefully pay a little less than at the Lexus dealer.

kickin8

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http://www.irontoad.com/Merchant2/me...Store_Code=LSC

$28.00 !!!

socalJD

I got mine from Sewell, apprx $25 for an OEM filter from an authorized Lexus dealer . . .

ben_r_

Awesome! Thank you!

Xanadu350

Thanks for the pics, it looks easy enough to me. I've saved it and will refer back when I need to do this. Def money saver.

IS250 4 Me

Ahem...you guys do realize that you can actually wash the existing filter and simply put it back in, right? You don't even have to purchase one of these bad boys.

I've been throwing the one in my wife's Toyota Sienna into the washing machine for the past 3 years with no problems, and have never spent a dime on a new cabin filter.