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The Pollen Filter costs about $30 at the Saab dealer. You get to it by:
1. Open the hood, look at the windshield wipers, pop of the black cap on each wiper that covers the bolt holding on the wiper. Put in a safe place.
2. With a pliers or appropriate ratchet, take off the bolt on each wiper which holds the wiper on. Keep in in mind how the wipers looked as far as orientation, and set aside marked left and right.
3. The next thing to attack is the plastic covering which buts right up against and runs the lenght of the windshield. To do this you must pull of a rubber strip which runs the length of the plastic cowling along the windshield. You will see what I mean. It is on the side of the cowling towards the engine, and it looks like the rubber pieces that go around the doors of the car and keep the air seal tight.
4. Next take the actual cowl off. You will need to jiggle it out from under the windshield molding, and will need to squish it right and left to work it out. You may also want to unattach the tube on the right end (which is windshield fluid tube) so you can take the whole thing out and put it on the ground or away from you somewhere.
5. Right there, in full view, you will see the filter. It is about 4" by about 14", and it snaps out easily. (Also, I would say go for a new one, and forget washing the thing.)
6. While you are in this area, you may want to take the next cowl out too (in which the pollen filter sits) and lube up your fan. This second cowl does not pull out, it just slides accross. Be careful with any wires. By the way, you are right near the resistor for your heater, just so you know, because it will go as they all do.
7. IF you do lube the fan, now you just want to slide back the botttom cowl, screw into place, and snap in your new pollen filter.
8. Then you work the second cowl back under the windshield, reattach the tubes for the washer fluid, and put the rubber molding along the forward edge of the big cowl.
9. Now snap the wipers back on, put on the bolts and bolt covers, and as far as I remember, you are all set. Good luck. kk kk_smith@usa.net
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