Although air conditioning in a car is one of the best functionality when hot, it can also lead to some inconveniences. Indeed, the air conditioning in a Peugeot 508 can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to enable you understand why. To get this done, first we will examine the reason of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you answers to make them vanish.
Why does the air conditioning of my Peugeot 508 have a smell of humidity?
So we begin our content page with the beginning of the bad smells originating from the air conditioning of your Peugeot 508. Whether you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is often times the same. Indeed, air conditioning brings about a lot of humidity, which will usually tend to gather in the ventilation system of your Peugeot 508. This humidity is the perfect source of the spreading of bacteria and fungi of all sorts in the air conditioning of your Peugeot 508. Furthermore, it is possible that smoking in your automobile, or not cleaning it on a regular basis (food leftovers for example) will lead to amplify the odors. Finally, the last traditional reason for a bad air conditioning smell in your Peugeot 508 is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and emits 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 Peugeot 508?
Now that you know where to look to locate the motive of this smell, we will try to help you to get rid of bad air conditioning odors on your Peugeot 508, because furthermore to being problematic 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 compose a list of actions you can take to get rid of these air-conditioning odours on your Peugeot 508:
- Even though it may seem evident, the dirt that amasses in your car will encourage the development of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Peugeot 508 regularly will allow you to take off many of the sources of these.
- The best remedy is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Peugeot 508 with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To get this done, please browse our content page which clarifies in detail the procedure to stick to.
- Replace the cabin or pollen filter of your Peugeot 508: This filter which aims to stop impurities from entering the cabin of your car must be changed every year and can store bad smells, remember to check its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Peugeot 508
Finally, last part of our content page on air conditioning smells on Peugeot 508, we are now going to give you some tips to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Peugeot 508:
- Turn 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 certain that the air conditioning of your Peugeot 508 is always in good operating order (air conditioning compressor particularly), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Be sure that there is no leak on your air conditioning is fundamental, in truth, the liquid is toxic and in addition the operation of your air conditioning would be altered in the case of a leak.
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