Even if air conditioning in a car is one of the most preferred functionality during the summer, it can also lead to some inconveniences. Indeed, the air conditioning in a Chevrolet Suburban can have a bad smell, and on this page we’re going to try to enable you identify why. To achieve this, first we will have a 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 go away.
Why does the air conditioning of my Chevrolet Suburban have a smell of humidity?
So we start our article content with the origin of the bad smells originating from the air conditioning of your Chevrolet Suburban. Whether you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is quite often alike. Indeed, air conditioning brings about a lot of humidity, which will tend to gather in the ventilation system of your Chevrolet Suburban. This humidity is the ideal base of the expansion of bacteria and fungi of all types in the air conditioning of your Chevrolet Suburban. Furthermore, it is possible that smoking in your vehicle, or not cleaning it regularly (food debris for example) will contribute to amplify the odors. At last, the last traditional explanation for a bad air conditioning smell in your Chevrolet Suburban is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and secretes a bad smell that will propagate in the passenger compartment of your car.
What can I do to get the bad smell out of my Chevrolet Suburban?
Now that you know where to look to uncover the cause of this smell, we will try to help you to eliminate bad air conditioning odors on your Chevrolet Suburban, because moreover to being unpleasant these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore important to get rid of them quickly.
Eradicating an unpleasant air-conditioning odor
We will now do a list of actions you can take to eliminate these air-conditioning odours on your Chevrolet Suburban:
- Nevertheless it may appear obvious, the dirt that builds up in your car will promote the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Chevrolet Suburban frequently will allow you to take out many of the sources of these.
- The best method is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Chevrolet Suburban with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To achieve this, please consult our article content which points out in detail the procedure to stick to.
- Replace the cabin or pollen filter of your Chevrolet Suburban: This filter which is designed to protect against impurities from entering the cabin of your car must be changed every year and can store bad smells, remember to verify its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Chevrolet Suburban
Finally, last part of our article content on air conditioning smells on Chevrolet Suburban, we are now going to give you some recommendations to maintain your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Chevrolet Suburban:
- Turn 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 rubbish is the first thing that causes bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To make sure that the air conditioning of your Chevrolet Suburban is always in good working order (air conditioning compressor particularly), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Be sure that there is no leak on your air conditioning is essential, in actual fact, the liquid is toxic and furthermore the operation of your air conditioning would be altered in the case of a leak.
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