Although air conditioning in a car is one of the most desirable product features during the summer, it can as well bring some inconveniences. Indeed, the air conditioning in a Acura ILX can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to help you identify why. To accomplish this, first we will take a look at the motive of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you solutions to make them go away.
Why does the air conditioning of my Acura ILX have a smell of humidity?
So we commence our article with the origins of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Acura ILX. Whether you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is often the same. Indeed, air conditioning creates a lot of humidity, which will tend to accumulate in the ventilation system of your Acura ILX. This humidity is the perfect base of the proliferation of bacteria and fungi of all forms in the air conditioning of your Acura ILX. Moreover, it is possible that smoking in your automobile, or not cleaning it frequently (food leftovers for example) will contribute to amplify the odors. Finally, the last common cause for a bad air conditioning smell in your Acura ILX is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and emits a bad smell that will disperse in the passenger compartment of your car.
What can I do to get the bad smell out of my Acura ILX?
Now that you know where to look to uncover the cause of this smell, we will try to help you to get rid of bad air conditioning odors on your Acura ILX, because moreover to being annoying these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore essential to get rid of them quickly.
Eliminating an unpleasant air-conditioning odor
We will now do a list of actions you can take to get rid of these air-conditioning odours on your Acura ILX:
- Although it may look obvious, the dirt that amasses in your car will encourage the development of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Acura ILX commonly will allow you to take out many of the origins of these.
- The best solution is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Acura ILX with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To accomplish this, please seek advice from our article which clarifies in detail the technique to stick to.
- Replace the cabin or pollen filter of your Acura ILX: This filter which intends to stop impurities from entering the cabin of your car must be changed every year and can store bad smells, make sure you verify its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Acura ILX
Finally, last part of our article on air conditioning smells on Acura ILX, we are now going to give you some tips to maintain your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Acura ILX:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: Indeed, always conduct this step will allow you to dry a maximum of humidity in your ventilation circuit and thus limit the humidity.
- Although it sounds basic, you don’t always have time to take care of your car, but garbage is the first thing that motives bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To make sure that the air conditioning of your Acura ILX is always in good functioning order (air conditioning compressor particularly), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Make sure that there is no leak on your air conditioning is fundamental, in reality, the liquid is toxic and also the operation of your air conditioning would be altered in the case of a leak.
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