Even if 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 Volkswagen Beetle can have a bad smell, and today we’re going to try to help you establish why. To accomplish this, first we will examine the reason 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 Volkswagen Beetle have a smell of humidity?
So we commence our content page with the origins of the bad smells coming from the air conditioning of your Volkswagen Beetle. Whether you have the feeling that it is a musty smell, humidity, or other, the source of these smells is quite often the same. Indeed, air conditioning creates a lot of humidity, which will usually tend to gather in the ventilation system of your Volkswagen Beetle. This humidity is the perfect base of the growth of bacteria and fungi of all kinds in the air conditioning of your Volkswagen Beetle. Furthermore, it is possible that smoking in your vehicle, or not cleaning it frequently (food remains for example) will play a role in increase the odors. At last, the last common motive for a bad air conditioning smell in your Volkswagen Beetle 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 Volkswagen Beetle?
Now that you know where to look to uncover the cause of this smell, we will try to help you to eliminate bad air conditioning odors on your Volkswagen Beetle, because moreover to being problematic these odors can be harmful to your airways, it is therefore crucial to get rid of them quickly.
Eradicating an unpleasant air-conditioning odor
We will now compose a list of actions you can take to eliminate these air-conditioning odours on your Volkswagen Beetle:
- Even though it may look obvious, the dirt that amasses in your car will encourage the expansion of germs and therefore bad odors, cleaning your Volkswagen Beetle on a regular basis will allow you to take out many of the origins of these.
- The best method is to clean the whole air conditioning system of your Volkswagen Beetle with antibacterial and anti-fungicidal products. To accomplish this, please have a look at our content page which points out in detail the procedure to follow.
- Change the cabin or pollen filter of your Volkswagen Beetle: This filter which is designed to stop 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 Volkswagen Beetle
To conclude, last part of our content page on air conditioning smells on Volkswagen Beetle, we are now going to give you some suggestions to maintain your air conditioning system and avoid bad smells in your Volkswagen Beetle:
- Switch off the air conditioning 5/10 minutes before turning off the engine: Indeed, constantly 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 garbage is the first thing that motives bad odors, so remember to keep your car healthy.
- To be sure that the air conditioning of your Volkswagen Beetle is always in good operating order (air conditioning compressor in particular), it should be run for 10 minutes every month.
- Be sure that there is no leak on your air conditioning is important, in fact, the liquid is toxic and additionally the operation of your air conditioning would be altered in the case of a leak.
If you want more tutorials on the Volkswagen Beetle, go to our Volkswagen Beetle category.
