Air conditioning is by far the most interesting options on recent cars. Nevertheless it was historically available to high-end versions, it has now been democratized for the vast majority of automobiles. However, this costly and sophisticated unit needs special treatment, and whether it’s for service or because of odours, it is totally important to think about cleaning the air conditioning of your Fiat Stilo. This is precisely what we will teach you in detail in this article. First we will look in detail at the process to clean the air conditioning of your Fiat Stilo, then in a second step, we will look more generally at the service of the air conditioning of your Fiat Stilo.
How to clean my Fiat Stilo air conditioning
Let’s begin our article with the cleaning of the air conditioning circuit of your Fiat Stilo. The only way to perform a total cleaning of this circuit will be to use bactericidal and fungicidal products, actually, your air conditioning creates loads of moisture that will stay in the circuit and will help the development of germs and bacteria of all sorts. You will find these products on the internet or in car centres. There are two procedures to accomplish this, here they are
Service the air conditioning circuit of your Fiat Stilo in a simple way
Once you have a disinfectant spray, you can very easily clean your car’s air-conditioning circuit.
The method is quite easy, even so, this technique can dirty the inside of your Fiat Stilo.
- Take away the cabin filter.
- Put in the disinfectant spray on the floor of your car (ideally on the passenger side).
- Turn on your car’s ventilation and air conditioning (with the engine is on) with air recycling
- With the windows shut down, push the button on the bomb to empty it slowly but surely and close the motor vehicle doors and leave it on for about ten minutes.
- Once this time has passed, open the doors of your Fiat Stilo, ventilation still on and let the passenger compartment air out for about 20 minutes.
This process will allow you to fairly quickly clean the air-conditioning system of your Fiat Stilo, but if you have bad air-conditioning odours on your Fiat Stilo that are persistent, we encourage you to practice the second process.
Clean deeply the air-conditioning system of your Fiat Stilo
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Now let’s go forward to the more radical solution of performing a cleaning of your ventilation circuit complete. You will have to buy the same bactericidal and fungicidal spray, it is only the application that will be different. Here is the process to stick to:
- Take away your cabin filter.
- By the external air intake of your Fiat Stilo (between the bonnet and the windscreen), with the engine on and the ventilation on, spray a couple of times for 5 seconds and leave all windows and doors shut down for 5 minutes.
- Once this first step is done you will be able to tackle the inside part of your air conditioning system, doing the same but not the inside air intake which is usually located under the glove box.
- Finally, to conclude, you can spray a few sprays into the vents of your Fiat Stilo.
- All you have to do is air out your car while the product dissipates before you can use it again.
Maintenance of the air-conditioning of its Fiat Stilo
Finally, to finish our article, we will give you the main advice to respect, if you desire to maximize the life of your air conditioning circuit on Fiat Stilo and limit unforeseen expenses.
- Have your air conditioning serviced every year
- Swap your cabin filter every two years.
- Have your FREON gas recharged every two years.
- lean the air-conditioning system on your Fiat Stilo every year.
If you want more guides on the Fiat Stilo, go to our Fiat Stilo category.
