While air conditioning in a car is one of the best features during the summer, it can as well bring some inconveniences. In fact, the air conditioning in a Fiat Panda 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 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 Fiat Panda have a smell of humidity?
So we start our guideline with the beginning of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Fiat Panda. If you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the origin of these smells is more often than not the same. In fact, air conditioning causes a lot of humidity, which will tend to accumulate in the ventilation system of your Fiat Panda. This humidity is the perfect base of the proliferation of bacteria and fungi of all kinds in the air conditioning of your Fiat Panda. In addition, it is possible that smoking in your car, or not cleaning it on a regular basis (food remains for example) will play a role in enhance the odors. At last, the last common reason for a bad air conditioning smell in your Fiat Panda is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and releases 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 Panda?
Now that you know where to look to find the cause of this smell, we will try to help you to eradicate bad air conditioning odors on your Fiat Panda, because moreover to being unpleasant 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 eradicate these air-conditioning odours on your Fiat Panda:
- Even though it may seem evident, the dirt that amasses in your car will encourage the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Fiat Panda on a regular basis will allow you to eradicate many of the sources of these.
- The best treatment is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Fiat Panda with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To accomplish this, please browse our guideline which explains in detail the technique to stick to.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Fiat Panda: This filter which intends to stop impurities from entering the cabin of your car must be changed every year and can store bad smells, make sure verify its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Fiat Panda
To conclude, last part of our guideline on air conditioning smells on Fiat Panda, we are now going to give you some recommendations to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Fiat Panda:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: In fact, 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 trash is the first thing that motives bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To be certain that the air conditioning of your Fiat Panda is always in good functioning order (air conditioning compressor particularly), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Make certain that there is no leak on your air conditioning is important, in truth, the liquid is toxic and moreover the operation of your air conditioning would be altered in the case of a leak.
To find more tips on the Fiat Panda, take a look at the Fiat Panda category.
