Cabin filter Fram or OEM FORD

The biggest advantage with the activated type is that it picks up odours so you smell less of the fumes from outside

If you don't care about those just get the OE

What car do you have? I used to drive a Ford C-Max and getting to the cabin air filter was insanely hard.

I can\u2019t smell the windshield wiper fluid since I switched to a Fram filter with charcoal in it.

I found the cabin air filter that came from the factory to be pretty basic and low quality. When I replaced it with a better one I instantly stopped smelling the wiper fluid/other cars exhausts.

There’s a 3rd party cabin filter with a carbon layer on Amazon that is significantly better than the ford cabin filter. I haven’t noticed anything since installing it.

Ford Fusion is almost this with labor. You have to take a ton of trim and bolts off. Even take out the glove box.

Change your cabin air filter for the bad smell. Could be clogged as well causing less air flow.

I use Fram FreshBreeze, usually buy on eBay. Bought once on Amazon, it was a knockoff in Fram packaging. I wouldn’t use it.

I’ve changed the cabin air filter probably 4 times now, used a foam evap coil cleaner twice, ran Lysol thru the cowl multiple times, did a descent bomb in the car. At absolute best, this lasts for a couple weeks and then back to this gross mildew smell coming from vents.

After having a fram cabin air filter in my dad's frontier reduce the airflow out of the vents by a good 15%-20% you guessed it... dealership