no cabin filter?

[Nj]

I hadn't really thought about it before when I had a number of coupes in the UK, but now that I live in a land of dust and pollen I could do with having a cabin filter but my CQ20v doesn't have one, and doesn't appear to have a place for one. I might remember a very thin wafer-thin piece of filter.. or maybe I imagined it. Do the coupes have one? Do the later coupes have one that I could maybe take and fit to my CQ?

cheers lads
nj

[SteveH]

My 3B coupe doesn't have one.

[Nuvo]

Hi Noel,
You can retrofit them from a later spec car to yours, I think they became standard equipment from 1993.
All you need is the foam gasket, the filter tray and a new filter of course.

[Nj]

Thanks guys. That's what I wanted to hear.. That the later cats have them
And now... I need a donor!!

[andy10v]

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24983&highlight=pollen

[kymi]

All you need is available as spare parts from Audi. Iirc those are quite cheap.

[Nj]

aha. Kymi, I didn't realise they would be so cheap.
Andy, thanks for the link with the part numbers

[Nj]

just emailed my local dealer. hope they aren't LHD/RHD specific but I couldn't find any info online for different parts.

[Error404]

Get the bits off a breaker. Don't forget to get the clip that holds the filter housing to the airbox as its NLA and not the same as the non-filter version and it won't seal properly without it

[Nj]

erm.. what Alex?
So there's a frame/housing bit yes? And it's the main bit I need to change. sits on top of the foam gasket thingy. And the cabin filter sits inside that, nice and snug. Is the bit you're referring to an extra bit that holds the filter in place?

[Nj]

I'm getting this from Kymi (and he's in Finland so I won't have to pay crazy postage fees for once). Will I be missing something?

[Mcstiff]

#49 (Does not seem to be NLA in the US)

[Nj]

Thanks McStiff.
Hmm. #48 seems a bit different to the part in the picture. There's a lack of the two "lugs" on the side for starters. And a total lack of part #47, unless that's a very oddly shaped filter. It would make sense if it was, with the 2 tabs fitting into the corresponding lugs on the frame/base. Then the clip #49 would hold it in place.

[Error404]

The clip holds the filter tray to the heater box. Without it it doesn't seal properly so you get a nice waterfall into the car.

[Nj]

aha. I still don't get it..

Looking at post #4 here, Mark retrofitted one but it seems to be the tray (as I have pictured below that i'm buying from Tomi) and a filter sitting on top with a clip at one end. http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthr...=pollen&page=2



Actually that plastic clip at the end looks different to the exploded parts diagram. There must be 2 different setups??