Although air conditioning in a car is one of the most popular functionality during the summer, it can as well lead to some inconveniences. Indeed, the air conditioning in a Renault Espace can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to help you identify why. To accomplish this, first we will check out the reason 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 Renault Espace have a smell of humidity?
So we commence our guideline with the origin of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Renault Espace. If you have the impression that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the origin of these smells is often the same. Indeed, air conditioning causes a lot of humidity, which will tend to gather in the ventilation system of your Renault Espace. This humidity is the ideal source of the spreading of bacteria and fungi of all forms in the air conditioning of your Renault Espace. In addition, it is possible that smoking in your automobile, or not cleaning it frequently (food debris for example) will develop amplify the odors. At last, the last classic justification for a bad air conditioning smell in your Renault Espace 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 Renault Espace?
Now that you know where to look to find the motive of this smell, we will try to help you to eliminate bad air conditioning odors on your Renault Espace, because moreover to being uneasy 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 eliminate these air-conditioning odours on your Renault Espace:
- Although it may look evident, the dirt that accumulates in your car will promote the development of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Renault Espace on a regular will allow you to take off many of the origins of these.
- The best method is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Renault Espace with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To accomplish this, please read our guideline which clarifies in detail the procedure to stick to.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Renault Espace: This filter which is designed to stop impurities from entering the cabin of your car must be changed every year and can store bad smells, be sure to check its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Renault Espace
Finally, last part of our guideline on air conditioning smells on Renault Espace, we are now going to give you some recommendations to maintain your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Renault Espace:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: Indeed, 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 trash is the first thing that triggers bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To ensure that the air conditioning of your Renault Espace is always in good working order (air conditioning compressor specifically), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Make sure that there is no leak on your air conditioning is important, 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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