While air conditioning in a car is one of the most chosen product features when hot, it can as well bring some inconveniences. In fact, the air conditioning in a Nissan Maxima can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to help you find out why. To do this, first we will look at the justification of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you answers to make them disappear.
Why does the air conditioning of my Nissan Maxima have a smell of humidity?
So we begin our content with the source of the bad smells originating from the air conditioning of your Nissan Maxima. Whether you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is often alike. In fact, air conditioning creates a lot of humidity, which will usually tend to accumulate in the ventilation system of your Nissan Maxima. This humidity is the perfect base of the expansion of bacteria and fungi of all forms in the air conditioning of your Nissan Maxima. In addition, it is possible that smoking in your car, or not cleaning it often (food leftovers for example) will lead to enhance the odors. At last, the last common justification for a bad air conditioning smell in your Nissan Maxima is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and produces 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 Nissan Maxima?
Now that you know where to look to uncover the cause of this smell, we will try to help you to eradicate bad air conditioning odors on your Nissan Maxima, because moreover to being annoying 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 do a list of actions you can take to eradicate these air-conditioning odours on your Nissan Maxima:
- 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 Nissan Maxima regularly will allow you to eradicate many of the sources of these.
- The best remedy is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Nissan Maxima with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To do this, please read our content which explains in detail the technique to stick to.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Nissan Maxima: This filter which is designed to protect against impurities from getting into the cabin of your car must be replaced every year and can store bad smells, make sure to verify its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Nissan Maxima
Finally, last part of our content on air conditioning smells on Nissan Maxima, we are now going to give you some tips to maintain your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Nissan Maxima:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: In fact, constantly 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 triggers bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To be certain that the air conditioning of your Nissan Maxima is always in good working order (air conditioning compressor especially), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Ensure that that there is no leak on your air conditioning is important, in actual fact, the liquid is toxic and in addition the operation of your air conditioning would be downgraded in the case of a leak.
If you have any further questions about the Nissan Maxima, do not hesitate to consult our Nissan Maxima category.
