How to Replace Engine Air Filter 2001-13 Toyota Highlander

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To open the hood, we have to pull the release inside the car. It's just inside, right around your left knee on the driver's side. You need to release the secondary, or safety, release. Just kind of feel around for it. This one is right here. Squeeze up.

To change the air filter there's a metal clip on this side of the air box and a metal clip on this side of the air box. Flip those open. There are some plastic tabs that the air box is sitting in. Just kind of lift it up. The air filter might stick in there. Just kind of pull it down.

This is our old one. This is our brand new one from 1A Auto. There are some little openings that are molded into the structure of the air filter. Those are going to fit with these little rectangles of plastic here on the air box, so that's how you know the orientation is correct. As we lay it in here those little openings are going to sit just like that. It actually tells you on this one "front" with an arrow, so it's pointing to the front of the car. It also tells you "up", that this is the top of it.

Then we'll hook these plastic tabs back in, push it down, put the metal back up, put the other one back up. The air filter is changed.

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