I reviewed the owners manual in the maintenance section and I believe the air filter is called the air cleaner element, but doesn't show how to safely/properly replace the engine air filter. I only have 1000 miles but I'm taking this 2019 RDX to South Korea for 3 years since I'll be stationed there. I want to replace them with the K&N filters after I hit the 15,000 mile mark with the OEM filters since I had good experiences with K&N in the past. Does anyone have links/instructions to take on this task that I could access?

 

I haven't seen anything written yet, but virtually all airboxes these days are held on with pop-off clips, so it should be real easy. Too, you have a good whole year to go, so give it time.

 

 

Looks like three of the four screws are exposed, #15 will need some work to get at.

Perhaps, removing the plastic shroud, to the right of filter box. it looks like it's attached by clips...Pull up on it, perhaps?

 

Yeah, I just looked. One of the screws, the drivers side front, is not easily accessible. I will just wait until a you tube person does it. I don’t know why they made it so difficult.

 

Whatever happened to good old fashioned clips? Then again, doesn't look like there's much room in that bay... Lol

 

I just replaced my engine air filter with the K&N one a couple weeks ago. No clips on the intake box like vehicles of yesteryear. I had to remove the plastic covering, in addition to the intake duct in order to access the three screws on the intake box. Other than that, it was a straight forward install.

 

I thought there were four?

 

It's similar in 3rd-gen MDX. You have to remove the front plastic shroud and the intake duct to get access to almost anything. But it's not hard. Just try not to lose the plastic clips.

 

Yea, four now that I recall. Lol. I stand corrected.

 

So that you can't do it at home. Pretty soon we won't even be able to change the tires at home.

 

You just have to pop off the intake tube to access the driver side front screw. Takes a bit of wiggling back and forth, but eventually pops off. Then you can remove the screw.

 

As a tech writer by trade, #15 is pointing towards 2 screws, in 2 locations, for 4 total. The small leader line shows the applicable #15 screws. Just thought this might help somebody. Carry on.

 

Here are some pictures showing all 4 screws. The front-most left screw needs to have the rubber boot pulled away to access and easily slides back on with hand pressure only.

Front right black screw to the right and lower from the silver bolt shown.

Back right screw, closest to passenger.

Back left screw, closest to driver.

Front left screw on driver side, only accessible by removing rubber boot.

This shows how the rubber boot attaches, just presses on, but not always easy.

 

Thanks for the pics. I'll definitely be going K&N for our 2 RDXs...used K&N on all my recent cars and no issues at all, love them.

 

Finally got around to replacing my engine filter with a K&N. At first I was confused on how to remove the intake duct. However, it's like a rubbery plastic so it's easy to bend around and twist to wiggle off. That was the main part - after that I could get to the screws and open the filter box enough to get the old one out and the new one in. Not that difficult, definitely a DIY job.