2010 Crew cab XL w/ 4x4, cloth seats, power equipment, and cruise < 30K. wtf else do you need in a truck? leather seats? f that. console shifter? meh. shiny 22" wheels? who cares... thats what mod'ing is for

 

I am in sales and my F150 cost $36,000 when all the dust settled (too bad there wasn't a CAF to keep it out of the cabin!)

It's funny when I pull up to Vermeer, or John Deere, or a Cat dealer. They don't blink at leather seats, loaded interior. I usually get a 'nice truck' and we head off to lunch. If I tried to show up in a $36,000 Audi or other luxury car, I'd get harassed without end, and my sales numbers would suffer.

At least in the midwest, it's acceptable for someone to have a loaded truck. My bed is beat up, and I do show up to customer sites with mud on the tires.

BTW try having cloth seats in a sales vehicle and have some stinkass guy hop in and leave his funk all over your truck seat for the next 3 weeks. Leather is a must! At the end of the week, I can wet wipe down the leather, and I'm ready for the next week of work. No more cigarette diahrrea dead puppy smell from Bubba who ate burritos and Copenhagen for breakfast and didn't change his skivvys for the last 9 days!

IowaAndy

 

vinyl does the job too.

people in iowa = idiots out walking around greetings from Wisconsin, lol

 

I DO forget about vinyl. Problem is they don't offer it in the bucket seat configuration. And we DO have a few people who have sniffed too much vinyl in Iowa...

 

Buy yourself a John Deere tractor with cab and you will have 4 of them to change.

 

Where is your 4th? We have only 3 if you include the prefilter........

 

you can rip the front middle seat out and throw a standard console in there (not the one with a shifter). bam, vinyl bucket seats.

 

There is the main cab air filter and the secondary cab air filter. The recirculation air filters are usually behind the seat. Some models have only 1 recirculation filter where others have 2. Theres too many models to list which ones have 1 recirculation filter and which ones have 2.

 

I wonder if the Lariat Limited has one?

 

Gotch, ours only has the one recirc then.

 

It doesn't have to be changed at all. It can be removed once and never put back in if the vehicle owner wishes to run without it.

The same can't be said for those who DO want it, if the provision is not there at all.

SL

 

I haven't seen any mention of using a car ionizer as a substitute for a cabin air filter. My truck also does not have one, and after trying to find out how to install one, it seems like it would be a big hassle to do so. It would be much easier to buy an ionizer to clean the air..has anyone done this and noticed it made the air smell cleaner? I have noticed when I'm driving I can really smell the exhaust of other cars on the road, and was hoping an ionizer would be a good fix for this. I've been thinking of buying the ionic pro car ionizer for $15.

 

Ok I did some searching and found a possible solution for '97-'03 and '04 Heritage trucks that don't have the cabin air filter kit. The following information is from the e-mail address http://www.underhoodservice.com/Arti...lter_q__a.aspx

The cabin air filter location on a 97-03 and some 2004 Heritage F150 and F series pickups and also 99-04 F-150 Lightning Pickups are located under the passenger side of the dash just under the glove box. There is a black plastic cover that will need to be removed with 4 screws to make access easier to see where the filter can be installed. Most of these trucks DO NOT have the filter installed and you will need a kit # F65Z-18D477-AA or do what I did and take a very sharp razor knife to cut the plastic box under where the filter slides in...note this is easy to do and the lines are already there to show exactly where to cut. Then slide your filter into the airbox and cover the cut opening with a piece of duct tape to prevent leaks and there you go. Cabin filter installed without the special kit which is hard to find since it was discontinued years ago. It works great on my 2003 Lightning. If you need help with it you can email me at jford94,at,aol,dot,com

I haven't tried this yet, but it seems like it would work..and without buying the hard to find or impossible to find kit.

 

Boy do I feel like a jerk....If I paid $50,000 for a truck, I'd be pissed it didn't come with a driver. All this poor guy wants is a cabin air filter....

 

Well I just finished cutting out that rectangular section and installing a cabin filter, it worked out pretty nice..and all I had to do was cut out that section with a utility knife and slide the filter in.