Although air conditioning in a car is one of the most popular functionality when hot, it can as well bring in some inconveniences. Indeed, the air conditioning in a Kia E Niro can have a bad smell, and on this page we’re going to try to enable you understand why. To accomplish this, first we will look at the motive of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you answers to make them disappear.

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Why does the air conditioning of my Kia E Niro have a smell of humidity?

So we commence our article with the source of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Kia E Niro. Regardless you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is more often than not alike. Indeed, air conditioning causes a lot of humidity, which will tend to gather in the ventilation system of your Kia E Niro. This humidity is the perfect source of the spreading of bacteria and fungi of all sorts in the air conditioning of your Kia E Niro. Additionally, it is possible that smoking in your automobile, or not cleaning it on a regular basis (food leftovers for example) will play a role in enhance the odors. At last, the last classic cause for a bad air conditioning smell in your Kia E Niro 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 Kia E Niro?

Now that you know where to look to uncover the motive of this smell, we will try to help you to get rid of bad air conditioning odors on your Kia E Niro, because furthermore to being uneasy these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore essential to get rid of them quickly.

Getting rid of an unpleasant air-conditioning odor

We will now make a list of actions you can take to get rid of these air-conditioning odours on your Kia E Niro:

  • Even though it may appear to be obvious, the dirt that accumulates in your car will promote the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Kia E Niro regularly will allow you to take off many of the sources of these.
  • The best method is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Kia E Niro with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To accomplish this, please seek advice from our article which explains in detail the process to stick to.
  • Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Kia E Niro: 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 to check its condition.

Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Kia E Niro

To conclude, last part of our article on air conditioning smells on Kia E Niro, we are now going to give you some tips to maintain your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Kia E Niro:

  • 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 assure that the air conditioning of your Kia E Niro is always in good operating order (air conditioning compressor specifically), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
  • Make certain that there is no leak on your air conditioning is fundamental, in fact, the liquid is toxic and additionally the operation of your air conditioning would be altered in the case of a leak.

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