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[TD]

If you think changing a pollen filter on a Mondeo is a 5 min job.....your wrong!

I thought Id treat it to a new pollen filter, seeing how filthy the air filter was. I assumed it to be a 5-10 min job....I was wrong too 

The filter sits on top of the blower motor, which someone in Ford design, decided the best place for it, is behind the centre dash. 

To get to it...

Remove the sound deadening material under the glovebox
Drop the fusebox down (that you now see) , unclip it and push it away to the left
Remove the glovebox...I kid you not!
You can now see the pollen filter housing lid hidden behind the centre dash

An hour later its all back together again ….. well done Ford 

[Andy B]

Sounds as though it was the same bloke that designed the pollen filter housing on my Merc 

[Doctor Gollum]

Who is probably the same bloke that designed mine...

Scuttle cover off, remove both wiper blades, remove scuttle. Remove pollen filter...

Not a bad job, but still 20 minutes longer than it needs to be

[Andy B]

As much as I dislike my wife's C3, replacing the pollen filters are a 30 second job.

[Gaffers]

As much as I dislike my wife's C3, replacing the pollen filters are a 30 second job.

It's lulling you in to a false sense of security, it's French.  It will be a bugger to fix/replace anything of note, they make it like that by design.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Design !??? The French design things ? 

[Doctor Gollum]

Design !??? The French design things ? 

Technically flair and panache are design processes 

[Nick W]

As much as I dislike my wife's C3, replacing the pollen filters are a 30 second job.

When I serviced the boss's Berlingo, I spent as much time looking for the pollen filter as I did on the rest of the job. When none of us could find the damn thing, we chucked the new one in a cupboard with rest of the oil: it's still there.

[Kevin Wood]

Design !??? The French design things ? 

Technically flair and panache are design processes 

What about screwing tacky bits of plastic together using self-tappers?

[Doctor Gollum]

Design !??? The French design things ? 

Technically flair and panache are design processes 

What about screwing tacky bits of plastic together using self-tappers?

That's the practical process resultant of allowing a design ethos of flared panache fuelled by Gauloise/Gitanes and plonk Rouge to reach the production stage...

[Andy B]

As much as I dislike my wife's C3, replacing the pollen filters are a 30 second job.

It's lulling you in to a false sense of security, it's French.  It will be a bugger to fix/replace anything of note, they make it like that by design.

Don't I already know 

[Kevin Wood]

Design !??? The French design things ? 

Technically flair and panache are design processes 

What about screwing tacky bits of plastic together using self-tappers?

That's the practical process resultant of allowing a design ethos of flared panache fuelled by Gauloise/Gitanes and plonk Rouge to reach the production stage...

Ahh. Having visited plenty of French companies on business trips, I can tell that's the bit they do after lunch*.

* = 2 hours spent gorging oneself and doing nothing useful, over a couple of bottles of wine, and Gitanes.

[TheBoy]

Design !??? The French design things ? 

They put more design effort in that those from Stuttgart

[TheBoy]

TD - not uncommon.  The Zafira means removing major parts of the trim around the passenger footwell. My over rover was a Glovebox-out affair (but was designed to be quick, so only took 30s, and whole pollen filter job was less than 5mins). The Jag XJ is removing some interior trim (I think XF is glovebox-out though).

[BazaJT]

Does make you wonder though how many times the pollen filter is actually changed on a "service" where pollen filter change is included.After all how many owners are going to bother to check after it's been in to the stealers?