While air conditioning in a car is one of the most desirable functionality during the summer, it can besides that bring in some inconveniences. In reality, the air conditioning in a Fiat Punto can have a bad smell, and on this page we’re going to try to help you establish why. To do this, first we will examine the cause 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 Fiat Punto have a smell of humidity?
So we start our content with the beginning of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Fiat Punto. If you have the impression that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the origin of these smells is often the same. In reality, air conditioning produces a lot of humidity, which will usually tend to accumulate in the ventilation system of your Fiat Punto. This humidity is the ideal origin of the expansion of bacteria and fungi of all forms in the air conditioning of your Fiat Punto. In addition, it is possible that smoking in your car, or not cleaning it on a regular basis (food leftovers for example) will play a role in enhance the odors. Finally, the last traditional explanation for a bad air conditioning smell in your Fiat Punto is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and secretes 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 Punto?
Now that you know where to look to find the trigger of this smell, we will try to help you to eliminate bad air conditioning odors on your Fiat Punto, because moreover to being unpleasant these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore very important to get rid of them quickly.
Eliminating an unpleasant air-conditioning odor
We will now compose a list of actions you can take to eliminate these air-conditioning odours on your Fiat Punto:
- Even though it may seem to be obvious, the dirt that amasses in your car will promote the development of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Fiat Punto frequently 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 Punto with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To do this, please read our content which clarifies in detail the technique to stick to.
- Replace the cabin or pollen filter of your Fiat Punto: 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 to check its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Fiat Punto
To conclude, last part of our content on air conditioning smells on Fiat Punto, we are now going to give you some tips to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Fiat Punto:
- Switch off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: In reality, 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 rubbish is the first thing that triggers bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To ensure that the air conditioning of your Fiat Punto is always in good working order (air conditioning compressor specifically), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Be certain that there is no leak on your air conditioning is important, 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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