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paolo Wrote:you dont putt the filter inside that plastic grate, you REPLACE the grate WITH the filter instead.. thats how it was back in ''02

I know, what I am saying is that ther IS no plastc grate to replace with a filter; the top of the air intake is topped with a wire screen welded on INSTEAD of the grate.

NefCanuck,Jan 11 2006, 09:01 PM Wrote:Funny thing, AFAIK the '05 NA Focus can't accept a cabin airfilter at all, yet at the 20K service the service dude tried to tell me that part of the service was replacing it.  Um WTH? Either service guy had no clue about '05s oor was looking to snowjob me out of more cash... WAsn't impressed that time...
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Chances are that they (Ford) didn't change the maintenance schedule, the tech was just going by the checklist.

Why eliminate it?

Because it eliminates 2 or three extra parts and the employees that put them in. I'm guessing Ford figures 75% of the people never use/replace it, so it is one of those things that they could save money and nobody notice.