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How to change the air filter in a 2011-2014 Ford F150 EcoBoost

Today Taylor’s Service Max is going to show you how to change the engine air filter on this 2014 Ford F-150 EcoBoost.  The first step is to loosen the clamp on the intake tube using a flat head screw driver.  Next release the three clamps that hold the air box together.  There are two in plain sight one is hidden under the intake tube.  Then slide the intake tube apart from the upper air box.  You can leave the mass airflow sensor attached because there is quite a bit of wire running to it.  Slide the upper air box our of it’s retaining pieces and lay it over to the side.  You can now access and remove your air filter.

How to get a complimentary air filter check up

When you bring your vehicle in to Taylor’s Service Max for any service we inspect the air filter as part of our routine vehicle check.  The technician will let the service advisor know if an air filter change is needed.  The service advisor will in turn inform the customer of their options to replace.

Putting the new air filter in your F150 EcoBoost

Taylor’s Service Max uses Perfomax Air Filers. The part number is P-517. When re-installing make sure the air filter is facing the right way because they are not perfectly square.  The easiest way is to hold the air filter with the lines running horizontal.  Then set the new air filter in to place.  Once the air filter is in, take the upper air box and re-inert it into its place at an angle.  Slide the tabs back into their slots, you should feel them latch.  Push the upper air box down into place and reconnect the intake tube.  Wiggle it until it snaps into place.  Next re-clip the three clips that hold the upper and lower air box together.  Finally, using your screw driver tighten the clamp back up that secures the intake tube to the air box.  You’re all done!

Schedule your next service with us

We hope you found this post useful.  Stay tuned for future how to videos from us featuring service tips!  If you have any questions our service department at 406-727-0377.  The service department is open Monday through Friday 7:30am to 5:30pm.  We are located at 4100 10th Avenue S. in Great Falls Montana.

Why we designed a new car dealership site.

In early 2017 we realized our website was not serving our customers to our satisfaction.  We set out to build a better car dealership website, and absolutely broke the mold doing so!  We built our new website out with one thing in mind.  The experience we wanted our customers to have when they came to our website.  We realized that automotive websites really lack quite a bit and are difficult to use and navigate.  There were actually too many options to navigate through the website.  So we sat down and talked about it, and thought, “what is somebody’s purpose for coming to our website?”.   We really only came up with three answers.  1.  They are coming here to look at inventory and to look at our cars for sale.  2.  They are coming to our website to schedule a service appointment, or 3. they are coming here to obtain financing or a car loan.

How we hope our new site will serve our customers.

So we moved those thing to the very forefront of our website so that traffic coming in to our site would be able to quickly and easily navigate to those sections without all the frills, without all the non-sense, without all the distractions.

Second to having an easy to navigate website with easy to choose options was having and extremely fast website.  So we set out investigating automotive website providers.  We wanted the fastest website possible.  So we picked our vendor DealerOn with that in mind.  Our websites www.taylorsautomax.com and www.taylorsacr.com both load in under four seconds.  The industry average is over six seconds.  Most dealerships that we would consider our competition have sites and pages loading in the nine to twelve second range.  We wanted to get our customers information quickly and be respectful of their data.  Realizing that now over sixty percent of our web traffic is mobile traffic so the more graphics, the more banners, the more slide shows the more huge video and additional services like chat and text and services that are put on websites consume a customer’s data.  We don’t want our customers going through a G of data on their data plan just to look at the cars we have for sale.

What makes our site better than our competitors.

Car dealership are infamous for having all kinds of pop ups and slide overs and push downs and “Do you want to chat with me” and this is your third visit back with us, here is an additional $500 in trade.  All of these features are designed to do one thing and one thing only, and that’s where we wanted to break the mold and be completely different than anyone else in the Automotive industry.   All of these chats and buttons to “get a better offer” or “get a better price” are all designed to capture a customer’s information and take them out of their buying cycle and force them into the dealership’s sales cycle.  We wanted to break away from that and add a layer of transparency so you won’t see special offer pop ups on our website, you won’t see someone trying to chat with you or interfere with your session on our website.

What you will find is all of the information you are looking for on all of our vehicles.  100% of the vehicles on taylorsautomax.com have a price, there is no “call to get price”.  We wanted to be upfront and transparent with that and make a website that wasn’t designed to capture customers but make a website that was truly designed to provide our customers with the best information.

Let us know what you think!

If you still want to get information online or if you want us to communicate with you via email, phone or text only, or swing by the dealership all of those options are available to you on our website.  Check it out, taylorsautomax.com and let us know what you think.  We built it with our customers in mind and would love to hear any feedback you have!