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This DIY on cleaning an Air Filter on a Mercedes Benz C430 2003 is quite easy to do and makes your air filter last much longer than it would otherwise. K&N guarantees that there air filters last for life, however one must do regular maintenance on it to maintain its condition.
This extremely easy DIY will elongate the life of your cold air filter!
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Alright, this is a Mercedes Ben, C.L.K. 430, 2003 engine cover
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I popped it off. The nice thing about these is there is no screws or anything that holds these down
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You basically just pull up on the rear of it and up on the front
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and it latches right out. Now the really cool thing about these is, or it's unique from a lot of other cars I've seen
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it's not just an engine cover. If you flip it, now here it is flipped, you also got the air filter actually attached to it
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So the air filter is actually part of the cover, which is pretty cool
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Now, since it's some Mercedes-Benz though, it's over-engineered for about everything. You've got to actually clean these air filters, you actually have about 10 little bolts right here that hold down the filter
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You have to remove all of these bolts just to get the filter off
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And then once you do it, the other cool thing about these cars is these Mercedes-Benz you don't actually ever replace
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the air filter like on normal cars. They're permanent air filters. The only thing you have
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to do is every so thousand miles you go ahead and pull it out and clean it real well
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I clean it with soap and water let it dry and then you have to re it basically So I going to go ahead and pull off the screws and pull this top off and show you the filter and everything
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All right, so at this point I've got, I pulled the filter cap off and you can see the two filters right here
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There's the second one. Now when you're looking at this filter, you only apply it to the top of it
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You don't go, you don't apply it to the bottom. You only apply it to the top where the air is actually
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hitting the filter and you want to get it to about it'll actually change the
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color a bit you want to get it to about this color you don't want the oil you
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don't want to spray too much where it's dripping into the intake you just want
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to lightly kind of missed it make sure it doesn't drip everywhere then once
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you've finished with that you just put the cover back on rebolt it and you're
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going to use a zigzag To tighten these bolts, you're going to use a zigzag way to tighten it
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You're not going to tighten one at a time you want to do them all diagonally as you're tightening them
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You're going to use this right here. It's K&N air filter oil
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You can get it from regular auto parts stores. It's good stuff
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These air filters are supposed to be really high grade for performance cars only
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Downgrade is they're real, you know, on my beamer, for instance, you can take off the air filter by just pulling it out of the box and there you go
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With this, you've got to unbolt all these bolts and take off the air, the engine cover
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But all in all, this is a pretty easy job and a great way to maintain your vehicle's performance
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I hope this helped. Have a good one
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