While air conditioning in a car is one of the most desirable functionality when hot, it can as well bring in some inconveniences. In actual fact, the air conditioning in a seat leon can have a bad smell, and on this page we’re going to try to help you establish why. To achieve this, first we will check out the cause 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 seat leon have a smell of humidity?
So we commence our guideline with the origins of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your seat leon. If you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is often alike. In actual fact, air conditioning creates a lot of humidity, which will tend to build up in the ventilation system of your seat leon. This humidity is the ideal base of the expansion of bacteria and fungi of all forms in the air conditioning of your seat leon. Furthermore, it is possible that smoking in your vehicle, or not cleaning it often (food debris for example) will contribute to increase the odors. Finally, the last common justification for a bad air conditioning smell in your seat leon is that you have a refrigerant gas leak, called FREON gas, which is toxic and releases 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 seat leon?
Now that you know where to look to find the cause of this smell, we will try to help you to eliminate bad air conditioning odors on your seat leon, because furthermore to being problematic these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore important to get rid of them quickly.
Getting rid of an unpleasant air-conditioning odor
We will now do a list of actions you can take to eliminate these air-conditioning odours on your seat leon:
- Although it may look evident, the dirt that accumulates in your car will encourage the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your seat leon regularly will allow you to eradicate many of the sources of these.
- The best solution is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your seat leon with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To achieve this, please browse our guideline which clarifies in detail the technique to follow.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your seat leon: This filter which aims to prevent impurities from getting into the cabin of your car must be changed every year and can store bad smells, make sure you verify its condition.
Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on seat leon
To conclude, last part of our guideline on air conditioning smells on seat leon, we are now going to give you some tips to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your seat leon:
- Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: In actual fact, 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 garbage is the first thing that motives bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To assure that the air conditioning of your seat leon is always in good working order (air conditioning compressor specifically), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Be certain that there is no leak on your air conditioning is essential, in fact, the liquid is toxic and in addition the operation of your air conditioning would be downgraded in the case of a leak.
If you have any further questions about the seat leon, do not hesitate to consult our seat leon category.
