While air conditioning in a car is one of the most chosen product features during the summer, it can also lead to some inconveniences. In actual fact, the air conditioning in a Citroen C5 Aircross can have a bad smell, and on this page we’re going to try to help you identify why. To achieve 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 possibilities to make them vanish.
Why does the air conditioning of my Citroen C5 Aircross have a smell of humidity?
So we commence our article with the source of the bad smells originating from the air conditioning of your Citroen C5 Aircross. Whether you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the origin of these smells is more often than not alike. In actual fact, air conditioning creates a lot of humidity, which will tend to gather in the ventilation system of your Citroen C5 Aircross. This humidity is the ideal source of the expansion of bacteria and fungi of all forms in the air conditioning of your Citroen C5 Aircross. Also, it is possible that smoking in your car, or not cleaning it often (food debris for example) will play a role in enhance the odors. At last, the last common motive for a bad air conditioning smell in your Citroen C5 Aircross is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and emits 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 Citroen C5 Aircross?
Now that you know where to look to locate the trigger of this smell, we will try to help you to get rid of bad air conditioning odors on your Citroen C5 Aircross, because furthermore to being problematic these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore essential to get rid of them quickly.
Eradicating 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 Citroen C5 Aircross:
- Although it may seem obvious, the dirt that builds up in your car will promote the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Citroen C5 Aircross on a regular will allow you to remove many of the sources of these.
- The best method is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Citroen C5 Aircross with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To achieve this, please have a look at our article which clarifies in detail the procedure to stick to.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Citroen C5 Aircross: This filter which is designed to protect against impurities from entering the cabin of your car must be replaced every year and can store bad smells, remember to verify its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Citroen C5 Aircross
To conclude, last part of our article on air conditioning smells on Citroen C5 Aircross, we are now going to give you some suggestions to maintain your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Citroen C5 Aircross:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: In actual fact, constantly 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 Citroen C5 Aircross is always in good operating order (air conditioning compressor especially), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Be sure that there is no leak on your air conditioning is necessary, in actual fact, the liquid is toxic and moreover the operation of your air conditioning would be downgraded in the case of a leak.
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