Carbon Cabin Air Filter Airflow Direction

There are two types of car air filters you can use.

Carbon cabin air filter airflow direction.

If your cabin filter has activated carbon on one side should the air flow into or out of that side. You won t have to worry about. Cabin air filter i have a 2010 camry. The owner s manual only indicates how to install a toyota cabin filter with the arrows pointing up.

Carbon cabin air filter contains activated carbon and remove everything the particulate cabin air filter does as well as absorbs smelly odors and exhaust fumes before they enter the vehicle. So no oem filters that indicate air flow direction are installed with air flowing down orientation. I am confused about how to install atp cabin air filter. 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.

Arrow pointing in the direction of airflow. 831tun jul 1 2018. Wow that was exhausting i need a vacation. The oem filter has direction arrows pointing up.

Hence look at the label of the new filter and see whether the arrow is for airflow or just direction and install accordingly. 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.