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Bad aircon smell

  • 25-07-2016 6:54pm
    #1
    Mandzhalas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭


    Month ago i have used Halfords air con treatment. Just in case, as my air con had neutral smell beforehand. Big big mistake!
    As instructed, i have activated can and placed behind driver seat with air conditioning on. For next 3-4 days my car have smelled amazing. After a week it started stinking like it had old sock in air vents. So i have gone from no stink to stink using antistink treatment :eek:
    For my number two treatment i have bought foam based aircon cleaner which you "inject" from can to air passages. For extra measures i have replaced cabin filters. It didn't help-air in my car still stinks. Worst is for first 5 seconds, than it dies down and is not very noticeable.

    It got me thinking what causes the smell? How to get rid of it?


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  • #2
    sunnysoutheast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭sunnysoutheast


    Mandzhalas wrote: »
    Month ago i have used Halfords air con treatment. Just in case, as my air con had neutral smell beforehand. Big big mistake!
    As instructed, i have activated can and placed behind driver seat with air conditioning on. For next 3-4 days my car have smelled amazing. After a week it started stinking like it had old sock in air vents. So i have gone from no stink to stink using antistink treatment :eek:
    For my number two treatment i have bought foam based aircon cleaner which you "inject" from can to air passages. For extra measures i have replaced cabin filters. It didn't help-air in my car still stinks. Worst is for first 5 seconds, than it dies down and is not very noticeable.

    It got me thinking what causes the smell? How to get rid of it?

    You can get all sorts growing in any moisture trapped in the ducting.

    What I do is, with the car fully warm and only me in it, drive with the aircon full heat, full blast, with the passenger windows open for few minutes every so often.

    Might sort it.


  • #3
    Mandzhalas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭Mandzhalas


    sunnysoutheast wrote: »
    You can get all sorts growing in any moisture trapped in the ducting.

    But all those treatments are designed to kill bacteria causing bad smell..


  • #4
    sunnysoutheast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭sunnysoutheast


    Mandzhalas wrote: »
    But all those treatments are designed to kill bacteria causing bad smell..

    Yeah, true, but I've never used any of them. I just do the above. Obviously make sure you're not breathing it in.


  • #5
    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


    Mine stinks for the first 10 seconds too. I'm going to try a bomb.


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