Although air conditioning in a car is one of the most chosen functionality when hot, it can as well bring some inconveniences. In truth, the air conditioning in a Audi Rs6 can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to help you understand why. To achieve this, first we will look at the reason of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you solutions to make them disappear.
Why does the air conditioning of my Audi Rs6 have a smell of humidity?
So we begin our article with the source of the bad smells originating from the air conditioning of your Audi Rs6. Regardless you have the impression that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is often times alike. In truth, air conditioning brings about a lot of humidity, which will tend to accumulate in the ventilation system of your Audi Rs6. This humidity is the ideal source of the proliferation of bacteria and fungi of all types in the air conditioning of your Audi Rs6. In addition, it is possible that smoking in your vehicle, or not cleaning it often (food debris for example) will contribute to amplify the odors. Finally, the last traditional cause for a bad air conditioning smell in your Audi Rs6 is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and emits a bad smell that will spread in the passenger compartment of your car.
What can I do to get the bad smell out of my Audi Rs6?
Now that you know where to look to find the motive of this smell, we will try to help you to eliminate bad air conditioning odors on your Audi Rs6, because furthermore to being unpleasant these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore necessary to get rid of them quickly.
Eliminating an unpleasant air-conditioning odor
We will now do a list of actions you can take to eliminate these air-conditioning odours on your Audi Rs6:
- Although it may appear obvious, the dirt that builds up in your car will encourage the development of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Audi Rs6 on a regular will allow you to take off many of the origins of these.
- The best solution is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Audi Rs6 with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To achieve this, please consult our article which explains in detail the process to stick to.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Audi Rs6: This filter which aims to prevent impurities from entering the cabin of your car must be replaced every year and can store bad smells, make sure you verify its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Audi Rs6
To finish , last part of our article on air conditioning smells on Audi Rs6, we are now going to give you some recommendations to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Audi Rs6:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: In truth, 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 make sure that the air conditioning of your Audi Rs6 is always in good operating order (air conditioning compressor specifically), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Make sure that there is no leak on your air conditioning is necessary, in truth, 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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