Even if air conditioning in a car is one of the most preferred product features during the summer, it can as well bring in some inconveniences. Indeed, the air conditioning in a Nissan Pulsar can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to enable you establish why. To get this done, first we will have a look at the explanation of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you possibilities to make them go away.
Why does the air conditioning of my Nissan Pulsar have a smell of humidity?
So we commence our content page with the origin of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Nissan Pulsar. If you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the origin of these smells is generally alike. Indeed, air conditioning creates a lot of humidity, which will tend to build up in the ventilation system of your Nissan Pulsar. This humidity is the perfect source of the proliferation of bacteria and fungi of all types in the air conditioning of your Nissan Pulsar. Furthermore, it is possible that smoking in your automobile, or not cleaning it on a regular basis (food leftovers for example) will lead to increase the odors. Finally, the last common cause for a bad air conditioning smell in your Nissan Pulsar is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and releases 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 Nissan Pulsar?
Now that you know where to look to uncover the cause of this smell, we will try to help you to get rid of bad air conditioning odors on your Nissan Pulsar, because furthermore to being problematic these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore essential to get rid of them quickly.
Eradicating an unpleasant air-conditioning odor
We will now do a list of actions you can take to get rid of these air-conditioning odours on your Nissan Pulsar:
- Although it may look evident, the dirt that builds up in your car will encourage the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Nissan Pulsar on a regular basis will allow you to remove many of the origins of these.
- The best treatment is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Nissan Pulsar with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To get this done, please seek advice from our content page which points out in detail the process to stick to.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Nissan Pulsar: This filter which intends to protect against impurities from getting into the cabin of your car must be changed every year and can store bad smells, remember to verify its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Nissan Pulsar
To conclude, last part of our content page on air conditioning smells on Nissan Pulsar, we are now going to give you some recommendations to maintain your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Nissan Pulsar:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: Indeed, always do 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 motives bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To ensure that the air conditioning of your Nissan Pulsar is always in good functioning order (air conditioning compressor particularly), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Ensure that there is no leak on your air conditioning is necessary, in fact, the liquid is toxic and moreover the operation of your air conditioning would be altered in the case of a leak.
To find more tips on the Nissan Pulsar, take a look at the Nissan Pulsar category.
