Even if air conditioning in a car is one of the most popular features during the summer, it can as well lead to some inconveniences. Indeed, the air conditioning in a Opel Antara can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to enable you find out why. To do this, first we will take a look at the explanation of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you solutions to make them disappear.

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Why does the air conditioning of my Opel Antara have a smell of humidity?

So we start our article content with the source of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Opel Antara. Whether you have the impression that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is quite often similar. Indeed, air conditioning brings about a lot of humidity, which will tend to gather in the ventilation system of your Opel Antara. This humidity is the perfect source of the spreading of bacteria and fungi of all forms in the air conditioning of your Opel Antara. In addition, it is possible that smoking in your car, or not cleaning it regularly (food debris for example) will contribute to enhance the odors. At last, the last common explanation for a bad air conditioning smell in your Opel Antara is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and emits a bad smell that will spread in the passenger compartment of your car.

What can I do to get the bad smell out of my Opel Antara?

Now that you know where to look to locate the motive of this smell, we will try to help you to eradicate bad air conditioning odors on your Opel Antara, because furthermore to being unpleasant these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore crucial 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 Opel Antara:

  • Although it may seem evident, the dirt that amasses in your car will encourage the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Opel Antara on a regular basis will allow you to take out many of the sources of these.
  • The best treatment is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Opel Antara with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To do this, please have a look at our article content which clarifies in detail the procedure to follow.
  • Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Opel Antara: This filter which aims to prevent impurities from getting into the cabin of your car must be replaced every year and can store bad smells, make sure you check its condition.

Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Opel Antara

To conclude, last part of our article content on air conditioning smells on Opel Antara, we are now going to give you some recommendations to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Opel Antara:

  • Switch off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: Indeed, constantly conduct 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 trash is the first thing that causes bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
  • To make sure that the air conditioning of your Opel Antara is always in good functioning 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 necessary, in fact, the liquid is toxic and furthermore the operation of your air conditioning would be downgraded in the case of a leak.

To find more tips on the Opel Antara, take a look at the Opel Antara category.