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DIY: How to Replace Change Cabin Air Filter Ford Mustang Mach‑E Written Guide with Pictures

writ­ten 3/17/24, updat­ed 5/9/26

Overview

What

Replacing/changing cab­in air fil­ter for a 2023/2024 Ford Mus­tang Mach‑E

Why

Because it’s easy enough to do by your­self and to save mon­ey. Cost adds up!

Materials and Cost

ITEMPRICE
Puro­la­tor Boss PBC31449$26.43 (Ama­zon)
Or if you’d like to stick with OEM:
Motor­craft Cab­in Air Fil­ter (Part #: FP100A)*$30.56 (Ford)
or
$20.97 (Parts­Geek)
*Accord­ing to Ford, Part FP100A is inter­change­able with FP100 and FP99

Time and Effort

Time: 5–10 min­utes

Dif­fi­cul­ty: Easy

Process

Tip: It’s best to be parked where you can com­fort­ably open your pas­sen­ger side door wide

Empty Glove Compartment

  • Take the stuff out of the glove com­part­ment

Lower the Compartment

Remove Stop Arm

  • With the glove com­part­ment open, look to the right side and locate the stop arm. Use a fin­ger to pull it until it pops off
POP!

Press the Tabs

  • Then press the tabs on either side of the glove com­part­ment to unhook the box
Tabs on either side
Close-up

  • It will swing down­wards. Just leave it there. It does­n’t need to come out.

Note: If you did­n’t unload the con­tents, every­thing gets dumped on the floor…

Open the Filter Cover

  • On either side of the upper­most, sol­id plas­tic, rec­tan­gu­lar door are 2 tabs that keep it in place. Push aside (out­wards) the plas­tic tabs until both sides free from the lit­tle tab. Be care­ful not to break any­thing!!

Hint: you may need to push aside any imped­ing wiring bun­dles.

The right was easy, but the left required two hands: one to push, and one to pull the fil­ter door down

Here’s a close up of the left-side tab from my 2023 Mach‑E. The wiring bun­dle butts up against the tab, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to remove. The 2024 was much eas­i­er with­out the wiring in the way as much

  • Push up or aside any way­ward wiring bun­dles and reach your fin­gers (or a plas­tic pry tool) up and around the two sky-fac­ing tabs. Pull care­ful­ly down to open the door

Warn­ing: Be care­ful of the met­al frame! It’s sharp!

Remove Old Filter

  • There it is! Just reach in, pull out the old air fil­ter, and note the direc­tion of the air­flow arrow
Ta Da!

Place New Filter

  • Com­pared to the Motor­craft fil­ter, the Puro­la­tor is much stiffer. Just posi­tion and slide it in

All Steps in Reverse

  • Close the fil­ter door and press until you hear/feel the click on both sides

  • Pull the glove com­part­ment back up into posi­tion until the side tabs click into place
  • Replace the stop arm on the side of the com­part­ment by just giv­ing it a nice push
Posi­tion
PUSH!
Boom!

  • Put your stuff back in

All done!

YOU DID IT! Super easy, AND you saved your­self some mon­ey!

Ford Cargo Area Badge Light Installation with Pictures

writ­ten 3/31/25, updat­ed 3/31/25

Overview

What

Installing a Car­go Area Badge Light on a 2024 Mus­tang Mach‑E

Why

For fun (had excess Ford­pass points to use!)

Time and Effort

Time: 20 min­utes

Effort: Easy

Materials and Cost

Supplies

Ford Car­go Area Badge Light

Scis­sors

Painter’s Tape

Cost

$10.55 ship­ping + tax (Used 23,800 Ford­Pass points, $119.00 MSRP)

Process

  • Open trunk
  • Remove car­go cov­er, if using

Push up on the end to get it to snap out of the hook

  • Read instruc­tions
  • Unroll the guide and cut around the out­side lines
  • Cut the inte­ri­or box as instruct­ed
  • Locate the por­tion of the trunk door inte­ri­or where it’s going to go, then tape the tem­plate onto it

The trim pan­el in the mid­dle is so use­ful to have. Just line the paper up with it, words leg­i­ble. I put the painter’s tape up and creased it out of the way for easy access because the paper keeps want­i­ng to roll up on you.

  • Find the lit­tle alco­hol pack­et that comes with the kit (I did­n’t even real­ize it came with one. D’oh!) and wipe the area with­in the cutout in the mid­dle
  • Pay atten­tion to the instruc­tions here! Locate the mount and ori­ent it cor­rect­ly with­in the mid­dle cutout. Tab to the LEFT (oth­er­wise your badge will be upside down)
  • Peel off the adhe­sive back­ing, fit it into the cutout, and press firm­ly along the length of the mount for at least 60 sec­onds

Boom, baby! Ehh, it’s a lit­tle off-cen­ter, but that’s okay.

  • Remove the tem­plate
  • Now for the hard­est part of the install: con­nect­ing the light, itself
  • Look at the bot­tom of the badge light and note the rec­tan­gle where that will fit in the tab that need­ed to be point­ed left. You have to first push that into the tab and then press firm­ly so that the hor­i­zon­tal lines snap into the grip­pers on the mount. You need to hear a bunch of clicks (Notice that it uses CR2450 x2 bat­ter­ies)
  • This is a lit­tle bit eas­i­er to say than do (at least for me), so I employed the use of the painter’s tape to give me a gen­er­al idea of where the tab was+
  • Sev­er­al clicks lat­er, VOILA!
  • Peel off the pro­tec­tive film and enjoy your new badge light!

Out­side and inside view. I won­der if the glare will both­er me…

COMPLETO!