2003-2011 Lincoln Town Car: Adding a Cabin Air Filter
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In this video I go over what is necessary to setup a basic cabin air filter to help keep your cars interior dust and pollen free as well as keeping your evaporator clean and operating properly.
Last year I took your suggestion and cut a regular HVAC filter to fit. I used one that had a wire grid support on back. Bought it at Home Depot for about 4 bucks I think. It's large enough to make several filters out of it. After 6 months you would not believe how much road dirt and crap it prevented from getting into the cabin. Thanks for the video!
I'm glad I could help! Thanks for letting me know how it worked out!
Bro you used the good filter what you cut it with snips
That’s genius 😂 thank you for helping me from 5 years ago
I’m going to do this. The smell in my 2011 Lincoln town car is gross. I have to shut it off. After installing the cabin filter, is there a way to clean out the walls of the vents with the built up smell? Thanks.
@ darjeeling3-- I am still driving my 2002 Lincoln Town Car that I bought in 2007. Not long after I bought it, I was telling my mechanic about a musty smell in the car, especially when I turned on the air conditioning. He said that there was probably mold and mildew in the vents. He sprayed some Lysol through the screen where the guy in this video placed the cabin air filter to kill the mold and mildew. The inside of the car smelled like regular Lysol for awhile. I now use Lysol with the Spring Waterfall scent several times a year, and the cabin smells so much better now.
Just go to your auto parts store and get a 1999 - 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee cabin filter. Just a very minor trim and it fits perfect.
You are so right...this video leads people in the wrong direction although well intentioned.
I found this video to be very informative, Thanks for the lesson.
Thank you for posting. May i please ask, what happens when it rains? Does the wet filter create high pressure build up for the fan blower? I'm considering doing this same thing to my 1993 corolla (which also doesn't have a cabin air filter) but I live in a hot climate so pretty much always run the AC. Anyway, please let me know what happens when it rains. Really appreciate your videos! God bless.
The cover itself is solid above the air intake. There is a elevated curbing that surrounds the intake as well. There is also a drain hole in the downstream part of the cowl that will channel rain water away. The filter will not get wet.
I added also other areas in my videos on this car to check and clean at all 4 doors
That filter will get wet and mold will grow on it making air even worst. That location is not meant to have a filter, that is why there is not one.
Thank you, I have a 2007 town car and you are correct, that never had a filter there. I’ve had the wet floorboard and had to take everything apart to seal it up and there was no filter there.
Thanks! Your car looks brand new! Would you have a video on cleaning your wheels? I have a 03 Lincoln TC- alloy wheels - in bad shape due to brake pad dust.
If you look at the entry port at 3:24 you see a square indentation where some sort of filter can be inserted. Would this be where they put the cabin air filter in the 2011 TC?
My 1999 Mercury Sable has a CAF. So did my 1988 Taurus. Why on earth my 2010 Town Car was allowed out of production without one is beyond me. What were they thinking? Thanks for the video, it's not pretty but does seem to work. I'll install one tomorrow.
I have no idea man. Honestly, it was pretty apparent that Ford just straight up neglected the Panther Platform for years. Then they wondered why it didn't sell. It's because they were trying to sell 2003 innovations in 2011.
Excellent !
I just discovered your channel do to your Facebook post in the group. Love it.
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I like the Microgard 3062 cabin filter. It fits almost perfectly out of the box.
they make a retrofit kit for this car also I seen awhile ago
Great job and information.
Will this eliminate exhaust fumes in the cabin?
No if you smell them you have a leak.
Thanks for the video, do you notice a decreased airflow or lack of power from your blower motor, since it wasn't designed to overcome the resistance of a filter, or is the difference unnoticeable?
Escape: Sierra Leone Not at all, still blows just as strong! Been using this technique for years. Although technically the system wasn't designed for the use of a cabin air filter, but you have to remember that cabin air filters are designed for maximum air flow so the difference really is imperceptible.
They don't design them to overcome a filter there are many cars Ford's alone that may have or not a cabin filter. Our old sable had a shield for it mold for it to set in. Even a part number but never came with one out of the factory, escape did have 1 but they don't always. HVAC system can vary oddly my devills blower all had a drain built some replacements however it's molded sealed. There's no variation on the car end that cause it to be needed or not. So not paying attention or caring you could end up wearing out blowers and or letting water in depending on where you drive.
Thank you thank you so much this video help me
Great info!
You can used Jeep Grand Cherokee cabin filter for Town Car.😉
What year?
What year
thanks for the video, however, Please get someone to hold your recording device. you don't have a friend to hold the phone?
Great video. Thank you! I have a 2005 Lincoln Town Car and will try this. I just started getting a stinky smell from the a/c. Oreillys sold me a can of vent & duct cleaner. I was searching on-line for where all the intake ducts were located for my car and ran across your video. My plan is to vacuum all the air intakes first before spraying the vent & Duct Cleaner. And I will install the cabin air filter per your video and seal it like you did. Can you tell me if that is the way you would get rid of the stink. And, is that little triangle vent looking thing left of the radio controls and just below the reset button an air intake vent? Thanks for the video.
Dennis Burgett Now did you check the seal under the cowl? Those are notorious for leaking and allowing water to collect on the passenger front area of the floorpan and can cause mold growth if the carpet never dries.
If that's not it, this may remedy the problem, as there could be a decent build up of organic matter on top of that intake screen. It might also be worth pulling the blower motor back a bit to see if there's any contamination in the squirrel cage.
Hope this helps, good luck!
STOP farting in the car
how do you vaccum the air intakes and where are they located? i just bought a 03 town car. thank you
U the man bruh
You like to buy a 2005 sky blue town car? It sounds like you know how to take care of them.
Can somebody please explain why on Earth Ford Motor Company didn't do this in the factory?
Old design. This Town car was pretty much designed in the mid 90's when all other cars didn't have cabin air filters.
Hell someone tell me why they put the oil filter in such a damn awful place!!!🤬
I couldn't understand what product you said you used to seal the area before you put the filter in. What is it called? Thank you!
Oh I used black RTV. Check out this great video from klowny. He explains the whole process very clearly. ua-cam.com/video/tYHikiM1e88/v-deo.html
@@ctuan13 - Thank you so much!
I thought I was the only one that uses a gas lantern to do work. I'm glad you do it as well haha. The moment I heard the "hiss" I knew. Just picked up a towncar and will look into this. Thanks! Do you still have the car? How has it been running for you?
No way! Nice, yeah as long as it doesnt involve the fuel system, I like lantern light better and the gentle hiss is calming when working on something frustrating.
And hey that's awesome! The Town Car is a great car for sure! I actually just sold it because I wanted something different and picked up a Marauder to replace it! But up until the day I sold it, it served me well.
Sure I replaced an injector, spark plugs, water pump, did all the fluid flushes, and filter changes and basics, but nothing ever went wrong. I like to be preemptive in my maintenance and so when I got some slight startup rattle, I replacing the timing chain tensioners and guides, but nothing was wrong.
Being a rear drive, longitudinal engine car, most of the work you could ever need to do is super simple. Just look out for rust in the wheel wells and check the upper balljoint boots. They always fail and as long as you regressed them and replace the boots, you shouldnt have any problems. Just disconnect the knuckle and replace the boots. (I just bought cheap replacement balljoints from Amazon and then used the supplied boots. It's more than just the rubber, but good luck finding just the boots and it's a small price to pay to ensure you wont have to tear apart your front end when your upper balljoints fail.)
Hope this helps!
@@ctuan13 Thanks for the detailed response! And enjoy the Marauder!
thats not bad to the blower motor? it wont over work it?
Not at all. It's worked great for years.
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You may have missed a great oppurtunity to put a 3"x13" filter above the one you choose to do. Look at 13" x 3" shape and decide. I DID THIS and its a bigger filter thus maybe better.
So do you put the filter ABOVE those bolts and hole, right? That was what I expected he'd do, and seems like a wise choice. I might try that myself.
I had considered that when devising the technique but it would put the filter in the path or water direction tracks allowing it to get much more wet, leading to increased mold and bacterial growth.
What about a 2003ford single pickup ranger where's there filter
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with the Ranger.
THX 4 the info
Looks like you just lowered your air intake by 90%. Orielys #3062 filter fits all the way across and sets on the ledge. Just trim the length.
@TheVidCheesey It might seem that way, but it always worked great and the HVAC functioned normally.
Good idea bro
What are you going to do when it rains and it gets wet?
It doesn’t get wet, water should never get into that area
Bought an actual filter to destroy it? Just filter material for half the price and get 10 times the use. eBay sells it by the roll for $10 and never buy another filter again. Also works great in the back of box fans to clean up any room. Used it as a contractor working in new homes.
I have a question ~ has anyone on here replaced the light on the dash clock of a 2004 and up on a Lincoln Town Car? I can't find the information anywhere.
Love this air filter addition, the air is terrible quality for us asthma suffers. Thank you for the video, I'm certainly going to implement this on mine.
Did you ever change that light bulb on the clock? I got the bulb off eBay but what should I do as far as how to replace it?? I can't find proper instructions on how to get it done.
Does 1991 Lincoln Town car have the cabin filter？
smilec Z Nope. No Town Car ever had a cabin air filter from the factory.
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Absolute waste of time, effort and money. ..... Putting a good for nothing low cost filter material, in a place not even designed for it? To filter outside air coming in? Useless beyond words. ... 😂😂😂
I can assure you, as much as it might seem janky, it 100% works. You say "To filter outside air coming in?" as if it's a foreign concept and yet essentially every modern car has a cabin air filter to accomplish exactly this. The Panther platform was simply outdated by this point when it came to HVAC design.
Based on my testing, it drastically reduced dust present on interior surfaces and vents. In addition, a key benefit to adding a filter is to reduce the amount of contaminants that can get to the evaporator core.
When contaminants like dust and pollen can get to the fins of the core, they coat the surface, leading to mold growth and significantly reduced thermal transfer efficiency. By filtering incoming air, you mitigate much of this dust, dirt and pollen and avoid having to flush your evaporator core fins to remove caked-on material.
I'm sorry you didn't find my video helpful, but hopefully you at least understand the benefits of a cabin air filter and adding one to a car that lacks one.
The proof is in the filter, brother. I've done this as well and will continue to do so.
To filter outside air coming in? Congratulations, you just described a cabin air filter