Although air conditioning in a car is one of the most preferred aspects when hot, it can also bring in some inconveniences. Indeed, the air conditioning in a Honda Pilot can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to help you identify why. To achieve this, first we will look at the reason of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you answers to make them vanish.
Why does the air conditioning of my Honda Pilot have a smell of humidity?
So we start our guideline with the source of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Honda Pilot. If you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the origin of these smells is often times the same. Indeed, air conditioning creates a lot of humidity, which will usually tend to gather in the ventilation system of your Honda Pilot. This humidity is the perfect base of the spreading of bacteria and fungi of all forms in the air conditioning of your Honda Pilot. Furthermore, it is possible that smoking in your car, or not cleaning it regularly (food debris for example) will lead to increase the odors. Finally, the last traditional motive for a bad air conditioning smell in your Honda Pilot is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and releases 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 Honda Pilot?
Now that you know where to look to locate the cause of this smell, we will try to help you to eliminate bad air conditioning odors on your Honda Pilot, because moreover to being problematic 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 compose a list of actions you can take to eliminate these air-conditioning odours on your Honda Pilot:
- Although it may seem to be obvious, the dirt that accumulates in your car will encourage the development of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Honda Pilot frequently will allow you to eradicate many of the origins of these.
- The best solution is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Honda Pilot with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To achieve this, please browse our guideline which explains in detail the process to stick to.
- Replace the cabin or pollen filter of your Honda Pilot: This filter which is designed to stop impurities from entering the cabin of your car must be replaced every year and can store bad smells, remember to check its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Honda Pilot
To conclude, last part of our guideline on air conditioning smells on Honda Pilot, we are now going to give you some tips to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Honda Pilot:
- 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 ensure that the air conditioning of your Honda Pilot is always in good functioning 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 essential, indeed, 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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