Although air conditioning in a car is one of the best aspects when hot, it can also lead to some inconveniences. In actual fact, the air conditioning in a Renault Latitude can have a bad smell, and on this page we’re going to try to help you understand why. To do this, first we will examine the explanation of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you answers to make them go away.

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Why does the air conditioning of my Renault Latitude have a smell of humidity?

So we start our guideline with the source of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Renault Latitude. Whether you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is quite often the same. In actual fact, air conditioning creates a lot of humidity, which will tend to accumulate in the ventilation system of your Renault Latitude. This humidity is the perfect base of the expansion of bacteria and fungi of all types in the air conditioning of your Renault Latitude. In addition, it is possible that smoking in your vehicle, or not cleaning it often (food remains for example) will develop amplify the odors. Finally, the last common explanation for a bad air conditioning smell in your Renault Latitude 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 Renault Latitude?

Now that you know where to look to locate the cause of this smell, we will try to help you to eradicate bad air conditioning odors on your Renault Latitude, because moreover to being annoying these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore fundamental to get rid of them quickly.

Eliminating an unpleasant air-conditioning odor

We will now compose a list of actions you can take to eradicate these air-conditioning odours on your Renault Latitude:

  • Nevertheless it may seem obvious, the dirt that accumulates in your car will promote the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Renault Latitude commonly will allow you to take off many of the origins of these.
  • The best treatment is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Renault Latitude with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To do this, please seek advice from our guideline which clarifies in detail the process to stick to.
  • Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Renault Latitude: This filter which intends to prevent impurities from getting into the cabin of your car must be replaced every year and can store bad smells, remember to examine its condition.

Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Renault Latitude

Finally, last part of our guideline on air conditioning smells on Renault Latitude, we are now going to give you some suggestions to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Renault Latitude:

  • Switch off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: In actual fact, always 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 motives bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
  • To make sure that the air conditioning of your Renault Latitude is always in good operating order (air conditioning compressor in particular), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
  • Ensure that that there is no leak on your air conditioning is essential, indeed, the liquid is toxic and additionally the operation of your air conditioning would be downgraded in the case of a leak.

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