Tag: Installation

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!