You will have to turn your wheels all the way to one side to make room for your hands to fit. Pop off a few of those plastic clips from the wheel well plastics, and pull the wheel well plastic out of the way so you can reach the filter. The only thing I had to cut was the long rubber boot on the CAI filter itself. It was so damn long that I could not remove the filter without trimming a few inches off of the end of it (this took a while with a razor, and was annoying as hell). Anyone else have to do this?