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.
The why shupack answered, the fix if you care could be to try a third party cabin air filter. If there are any out there with a larger amount of carbon in them (carbon absorbs odor) that'd help. Replacing the cabin air filter behind the glove box is fairly easy to do and several YouTube videos on it. Cheaper than having the dealer do it, and 3rd party filters claim to be better. We did notice less smoke smell from the wildfires last summer when I swapped out from OEM to whatever filter I put in.
I swap my own tires, fill up the washer fluid, and changed the cabin air filter last month.
My Volvo dealer wanted $200 to replace the cabin air filter and I declined, claiming it was a "$20 part and 10 minutes of labor. " It turns out I was wrong, it was a $22 part and 5 minutes of labor.
Cabin air filters are dirt cheap and easy to swap yourself, but people forget about them and shops love to charge stupid amounts of money to replace them for you.
But the cabin air filter? A five step process. First step is Remove the Accelerator pedal. Even then, the old filter needs to be torn out, and the new one folded in half to fit…
vw egolf - in 3 years and 60.000km just cabin filter x3
I personally warned someone considering this car not to get it for their family based on this video alone https://www.jalopnik.com/1925823/volkswagen-id-buzz-complicated-cabin-air-filter-replacement-tiktok/
Given that they're charging $95 for a cabin air filter, it's highly likely that they're overpriced.
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