{"id":7018,"date":"2015-07-21T09:19:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/21\/changing-the-engine-air-filter-on-a-2013-jeep-wrangler\/"},"modified":"2015-07-21T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:19:44","slug":"changing-the-engine-air-filter-on-a-2013-jeep-wrangler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/21\/changing-the-engine-air-filter-on-a-2013-jeep-wrangler\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the Engine Air Filter on a 2013 Jeep Wrangler"},"content":{"rendered":"

The owner's manual calls for a changeout every 30,000 miles or 3 years, whichever comes first.  That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  These off-road vehicles suck in a lot of dust off-road and plenty of dust on-road too in a dusty state like Arizona.  And since air filters are cheap, and the installation easy,  I thought I'd go ahead, invest a few dollars and minutes and change mine even though I am only about half-way to the 30,000 mile mark.<\/span><\/p>\n

The STP filter cost me $13.89 plus tax at Auto Zone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, the installation used to be<\/em> easy on Jeeps: unsnap four clips with your fingers, lift up the plastic air box hood, remove old filter, insert new, reconnect clips.  No tools needed.  <\/span><\/p>\n

So I unsnapped the four clips, but the hood wouldn't come off.  So I got a flashlight and looked for a fifth clip.  Didn't find one. Now I am sweating like a pig and cursing the recalcitrance of matter.  Why is this simple job proving to be difficult?  <\/span><\/p>\n

To the Internet!  One video was useless, and so was the Jeep Forum, but then I found this video<\/a> in which the secret is revealed. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The owner's manual calls for a changeout every 30,000 miles or 3 years, whichever comes first.  That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  These off-road vehicles suck in a lot of dust off-road and plenty of dust on-road too in a dusty state like Arizona.  And since air filters are cheap, and the … Continue reading “Changing the Engine Air Filter on a 2013 Jeep Wrangler”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}