There are two types of car air filters you can use.
Carbon cabin air filter airflow direction.
You won t have to worry about.
The owner s manual only indicates how to install a toyota cabin filter with the arrows pointing up.
Wow that was exhausting i need a vacation.
If your cabin filter has activated carbon on one side should the air flow into or out of that side.
I am confused about how to install atp cabin air filter.
Arrow pointing in the direction of airflow.
The filter indicates with arrows where the air flow is directed but i don t know if in my 2012 tcle see picture below the air flow comes from bottom up or the top down.
If you take out the installed filter the dirty side is on top so that implies that the airflow is down.
Cabin air filter i have a 2010 camry.
Conventional wisdom says paper side first so it can catch large debris letting the small odor particles get captured by the carbon side on the way out.
The oem filter has direction arrows pointing up.
Particulate cabin air filter removes dust and other contaminants from the car cabin air.
Hence look at the label of the new filter and see whether the arrow is for airflow or just direction and install accordingly.
So no oem filters that indicate air flow direction are installed with air flowing down orientation.