While air conditioning in a car is one of the most preferred aspects when hot, it can as well lead to some inconveniences. Indeed, the air conditioning in a Alfa Romeo Giulia can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to enable you identify why. To accomplish this, first we will have a look at the explanation of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you solutions to make them vanish.
Why does the air conditioning of my Alfa Romeo Giulia have a smell of humidity?
So we start our content page with the origins of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Alfa Romeo Giulia. Regardless you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is often times the same. Indeed, air conditioning creates a lot of humidity, which will tend to build up in the ventilation system of your Alfa Romeo Giulia. This humidity is the ideal origin of the expansion of bacteria and fungi of all sorts in the air conditioning of your Alfa Romeo Giulia. In addition, it is possible that smoking in your car, or not cleaning it often (food leftovers for example) will lead to amplify the odors. At last, the last common cause for a bad air conditioning smell in your Alfa Romeo Giulia is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and releases 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 Alfa Romeo Giulia?
Now that you know where to look to locate the trigger of this smell, we will try to help you to eliminate bad air conditioning odors on your Alfa Romeo Giulia, because in addition to being unpleasant these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore essential to get rid of them quickly.
Getting rid of an unpleasant air-conditioning odor
We will now compose a list of actions you can take to eliminate these air-conditioning odours on your Alfa Romeo Giulia:
- Even though it may appear to be evident, the dirt that accumulates in your car will encourage the development of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Alfa Romeo Giulia on a regular basis will allow you to eradicate many of the origins of these.
- The best treatment is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Alfa Romeo Giulia with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To accomplish this, please read our content page which clarifies in detail the procedure to follow.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Alfa Romeo Giulia: This filter which is designed to stop impurities from getting into the cabin of your car must be changed every year and can store bad smells, make sure to check its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Alfa Romeo Giulia
To conclude, last part of our content page on air conditioning smells on Alfa Romeo Giulia, we are now going to give you some recommendations to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Alfa Romeo Giulia:
- Switch off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: Indeed, constantly perform 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 assure that the air conditioning of your Alfa Romeo Giulia is always in good functioning order (air conditioning compressor in particular), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Make sure that there is no leak on your air conditioning is essential, in reality, the liquid is toxic and in addition the operation of your air conditioning would be downgraded in the case of a leak.
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