How to Remove the Air Conditioner Filter in a 2010 Hyundai Sonata
- 1). Open the driver’s side door to find the dashboard’s passenger’s side panel — the panel on the far-right side of the dashboard. Pry around the perimeter of the side panel with a flat-head screwdriver to disengage its retaining clips. Pull the side panel off the dashboard.
- 2). Look into the hole where the side panel was to find the glove box damper — the rod connecting to the side of the glove box. Remove the screw securing the damper to the glove box with a Phillips screwdriver and pull the damper from the glove box.
- 3). Open the glove box. Look on both sides of the inside of the glove box to find the two plastic glove box stoppers — small, rectangular plastic pieces. Hold the glove box up with your knee and press downward on each stopper from inside the glove box to disengage them, then remove the stoppers.
- 4). Allow the glove box to pivot downward and hang by its hinges. Look behind where the glove box was to find the cabin air filter cover — the roughly 7-by-2-inch plastic cover. Squeeze the set of ears on both ends of the cabin air filter cover together and pull the cabin cover out — notice the cabin air filter tray coves out with the cover.
- 5). Lift the cabin air filter from the tray. Set a new cabin air filter into the tray with the airflow arrow pointing downward.
- 6). Press the cabin air filter tray back into its housing and press the cover toward its housing until the tabs that secure it click into place.
- 7). Lift the glove box back upward so the rear of the glove box is inside its cavity in the dashboard. Insert the glove box stoppers into their holes in the rear of the inside of the glove box. Slide the stoppers upward to lock them into place. Close the glove box.
- 8). Press the glove box damper back onto its mounting shaft on the passenger’s side of the glove box. Tighten the damper-retaining screw with a Phillips screwdriver.
- 9). Line up the clips on the rear of the dashboard side cover with the slots on the passenger’s side of the dashboard. Press the side panel onto the dashboard until the clips snap into place.
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