Smelly A/C

[AB]

Can anyone recommend a decent product to clean out some vents / A/C system.

Seems someone stubbed a cigarette out in the exterior vent by the windscreen at some point. Every time I put the A/C on it stinks of stale cigarettes.

Not sure there are any remnants of the ciggy in the vent but could do with something that'll 'febreeze' it for me?

Any ideas?

[SlimRick]

Is there a filter you can change?

[Dave_ST220]

You can buy kits for this. Stick A/C on recirculate and let it do it's job. Aerosol that just fills the car up IIRC. Never used one so don't know how good they are. Halfords?

[eybic]

Yep, Halfrauds do a product in a tin that you let do it's thing in the car and is very good.

[Riff Raff]

I've used the Halfords kit. It seemed to work. If it was me, I'd change the pollen filter before setting off the A/C Bomb.

[AB]

Thanks very much, will head over to Halfords later - I need to buy some oil anyway

[Riff Raff]

Just to re-iterate, setting the canister off without changing the pollen filter probably won't produce the result you want. It'll be like pumping some air freshener into a smelly sock. Sooner rather than later your aircon will start to smell again.

Most pollen filters in my experience are easy to get at and to change, all the ones I've done have been in the passenger footwell somewhere. Cover off, old filter out, new one in, job's a carrot.

[philmots]

I've used the stuff from Halfords. Works well.

[AB]

If a job's worth doing and all that...

Will change the pollen filter.

[trickywoo]

I found putting the heating and fan to max and running it for 30 minutes worked well on mine.

Its quite nice tooling around with all the windows open and hot air blowing about.

[Presuming Ed]

Are you sure its not just a stale smell? When AC hasn't been used regularly it can become really smelly my cure has been to put the heaters on full blast and get a load of heat through the system.

[TVR1]

trickywoo said:

I found putting the heating and fan to max and running it for 30 minutes worked well on mine.

Its quite nice tooling around with all the windows open and hot air blowing about.

Dolphin Killer!



although I do it the opposite way, roof/windows down on a warm sunny day with cold air on my feet, absolute bliss!