Even if air conditioning in a car is one of the most chosen functionality when hot, it can also bring in some inconveniences. In fact, the air conditioning in a Opel Mokka can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to help you identify why. To accomplish this, first we will examine the justification of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you possibilities to make them disappear.
Why does the air conditioning of my Opel Mokka have a smell of humidity?
So we begin our article with the beginning of the bad smells originating from the air conditioning of your Opel Mokka. If you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the origin of these smells is more often than not alike. In fact, air conditioning makes a lot of humidity, which will tend to accumulate in the ventilation system of your Opel Mokka. This humidity is the ideal base of the spreading of bacteria and fungi of all kinds in the air conditioning of your Opel Mokka. Furthermore, it is possible that smoking in your car, or not cleaning it regularly (food leftovers for example) will lead to enhance the odors. Finally, the last classic cause for a bad air conditioning smell in your Opel Mokka 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 Mokka?
Now that you know where to look to find the trigger of this smell, we will try to help you to eradicate bad air conditioning odors on your Opel Mokka, because in addition to being annoying these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore necessary 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 eradicate these air-conditioning odours on your Opel Mokka:
- Even though it may appear to be obvious, the dirt that amasses in your car will encourage the development of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Opel Mokka commonly will allow you to remove many of the sources of these.
- The best treatment is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Opel Mokka with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To accomplish this, please read our article which explains in detail the procedure to follow.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Opel Mokka: This filter which aims to stop impurities from entering the cabin of your car must be replaced every year and can store bad smells, make sure check its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Opel Mokka
Finally, last part of our article on air conditioning smells on Opel Mokka, we are now going to give you some tips to maintain your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Opel Mokka:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: In fact, 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 triggers bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To be sure that the air conditioning of your Opel Mokka is always in good functioning order (air conditioning compressor particularly), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Be certain that there is no leak on your air conditioning is necessary, in actual fact, the liquid is toxic and also the operation of your air conditioning would be altered in the case of a leak.
To find more tips on the Opel Mokka, take a look at the Opel Mokka category.
