While air conditioning in a car is one of the most preferred functionality during the summer, it can also bring some inconveniences. In actual fact, the air conditioning in a Fiat Doblo 2 can have a bad smell, and on this page we’re going to try to help you find out why. To accomplish this, first we will check out the cause of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you answers to make them disappear.
Why does the air conditioning of my Fiat Doblo 2 have a smell of humidity?
So we begin our content with the beginning of the bad smells originating from the air conditioning of your Fiat Doblo 2. If you have the impression that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is more often than not similar. In actual fact, air conditioning produces a lot of humidity, which will usually tend to build up in the ventilation system of your Fiat Doblo 2. This humidity is the ideal origin of the spreading of bacteria and fungi of all kinds in the air conditioning of your Fiat Doblo 2. Moreover, it is possible that smoking in your car, or not cleaning it often (food remains for example) will develop increase the odors. Finally, the last traditional justification for a bad air conditioning smell in your Fiat Doblo 2 is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and produces 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 Fiat Doblo 2?
Now that you know where to look to find the motive of this smell, we will try to help you to eradicate bad air conditioning odors on your Fiat Doblo 2, because moreover to being unpleasant these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore important to get rid of them quickly.
Eliminating an unpleasant air-conditioning odor
We will now make a list of actions you can take to eradicate these air-conditioning odours on your Fiat Doblo 2:
- Even though it may appear to be evident, the dirt that accumulates in your car will promote the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Fiat Doblo 2 regularly will allow you to take out many of the sources of these.
- The best treatment is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Fiat Doblo 2 with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To accomplish this, please browse our content which clarifies in detail the procedure to follow.
- Replace the cabin or pollen filter of your Fiat Doblo 2: 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 check its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Fiat Doblo 2
Finally, last part of our content on air conditioning smells on Fiat Doblo 2, we are now going to give you some tips to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Fiat Doblo 2:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: In actual fact, 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 causes bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To assure that the air conditioning of your Fiat Doblo 2 is always in good operating order (air conditioning compressor in particular), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Make certain that there is no leak on your air conditioning is essential, in fact, the liquid is toxic and in addition the operation of your air conditioning would be altered in the case of a leak.
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