While air conditioning in a car is one of the most popular product features when hot, it can besides that lead to some inconveniences. Indeed, the air conditioning in a Toyota Yaris can have a bad smell, and on this page we’re going to try to enable you identify why. To accomplish this, first we will look at the motive of this bad smell of air conditioning, then, in a second time, we will try to give you solutions to make them disappear.

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Why does the air conditioning of my Toyota Yaris have a smell of humidity?

So we commence our article with the source of the bad smells originating from the air conditioning of your Toyota Yaris. If you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is quite often alike. Indeed, air conditioning creates a lot of humidity, which will tend to accumulate in the ventilation system of your Toyota Yaris. This humidity is the ideal source of the expansion of bacteria and fungi of all sorts in the air conditioning of your Toyota Yaris. Furthermore, it is possible that smoking in your vehicle, or not cleaning it regularly (food debris for example) will develop increase the odors. At last, the last classic justification for a bad air conditioning smell in your Toyota Yaris 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 Toyota Yaris?

Now that you know where to look to find the trigger of this smell, we will try to help you to get rid of bad air conditioning odors on your Toyota Yaris, because in addition to being unpleasant these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore important to get rid of them quickly.

Eradicating an unpleasant air-conditioning odor

We will now do a list of actions you can take to get rid of these air-conditioning odours on your Toyota Yaris:

  • Even though it may appear to be evident, the dirt that accumulates in your car will encourage the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Toyota Yaris on a regular will allow you to take off many of the sources of these.
  • The best method is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Toyota Yaris with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To accomplish this, please browse our article which points out in detail the process to stick to.
  • Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Toyota Yaris: This filter which aims to protect against impurities from getting into the cabin of your car must be replaced every year and can store bad smells, make sure you examine its condition.

Avoid musty air-conditioning odors on Toyota Yaris

To finish , last part of our article on air conditioning smells on Toyota Yaris, we are now going to give you some suggestions to preserve your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Toyota Yaris:

  • Turn off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: Indeed, always perform 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 be sure that the air conditioning of your Toyota Yaris is always in good operating order (air conditioning compressor in particular), 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 moreover the operation of your air conditioning would be downgraded in the case of a leak.

If you have any further questions about the Toyota Yaris, do not hesitate to consult our Toyota Yaris category.