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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
Yes, you can totally replace the air filter yourself. I replaced mine not too long ago. If it's dirty it will have a brownish/grayish tinge to it, and LOOK dirty. The brand-new air filter looked yellowish to begin with.
As for the hole, I wouldn't worry too much about that either; the guy at Jiffy Lube broke off the tabs holding my air filter lid on and my car still runs fine despite there not being a very good seal. Stupid Jiffy Lube guy.
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Hmm, okay, good to know. It IS very bright yellow, as I said... so maybe that doesn't need to be replaced. Damn, thought I had the problem with the bad seal!
Next up will be the spark plugs, I guess. After that, it's anyone's guess. It's weird, because the car has trouble accelerating from a stop (and going up hills), but once I get it into the higher gears, it does pretty well on the flats. It gets a little bit jarring/jerky at times, but still rides okay. We seriously just drove it 800 miles in that condition last weekend, though I saw my life flash before my eyes in the Icelandic highland desert...