While air conditioning in a car is one of the most chosen functionality during the summer, it can besides that bring in some inconveniences. In reality, the air conditioning in a Mini Countryman can have a bad smell, and on this page we’re going to try to help you understand why. To accomplish this, first we will check out the motive of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you solutions to make them disappear.
Why does the air conditioning of my Mini Countryman have a smell of humidity?
So we commence our article with the beginning of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Mini Countryman. If you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the origin of these smells is often alike. In reality, air conditioning produces a lot of humidity, which will tend to build up in the ventilation system of your Mini Countryman. This humidity is the perfect source of the proliferation of bacteria and fungi of all kinds in the air conditioning of your Mini Countryman. In addition, it is possible that smoking in your car, or not cleaning it on a regular basis (food debris for example) will lead to increase the odors. At last, the last common justification for a bad air conditioning smell in your Mini Countryman is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and produces a bad smell that will disperse in the passenger compartment of your car.
What can I do to get the bad smell out of my Mini Countryman?
Now that you know where to look to uncover the trigger of this smell, we will try to help you to eliminate bad air conditioning odors on your Mini Countryman, because moreover to being unpleasant these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore very important to get rid of them quickly.
Getting rid of an unpleasant air-conditioning odor
We will now do a list of actions you can take to eliminate these air-conditioning odours on your Mini Countryman:
- Although it may look obvious, the dirt that amasses in your car will promote the development of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Mini Countryman frequently will allow you to take off many of the sources of these.
- The best solution is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Mini Countryman with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To accomplish this, please have a look at our article which clarifies in detail the procedure to follow.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Mini Countryman: This filter which intends to protect against impurities from entering the cabin of your car must be changed every year and can store bad smells, make sure to verify its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Mini Countryman
To finish , last part of our article on air conditioning smells on Mini Countryman, we are now going to give you some suggestions to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Mini Countryman:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: In reality, always accomplish 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 motives bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To make sure that the air conditioning of your Mini Countryman is always in good functioning order (air conditioning compressor specifically), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Make sure that there is no leak on your air conditioning is necessary, in truth, the liquid is toxic and in addition the operation of your air conditioning would be downgraded in the case of a leak.
If perhaps you have any further questions about the Mini Countryman, do not hesitate to consult our Mini Countryman category.
