Air conditioning is one of the most interesting features on modern cars. Nevertheless it was in past times restricted to high-end models, it has nowadays been democratized for a large proportion of vehicles. Nevertheless, this expensive and elaborate mechanism requires special attention, and whether it’s for maintenance or because of odours, it is completely necessary to think about cleaning the air conditioning of your Mercedes Benz M Class. This is exactly what we will show you in detail in this article. First we will check in detail at the technique to clean the air conditioning of your Mercedes Benz M Class, then in a second step, we will look more generally at the maintenance of the air conditioning of your Mercedes Benz M Class.
How to clean my Mercedes Benz M Class air conditioning
Let’s start our article with the cleaning of the air conditioning circuit of your Mercedes Benz M Class. The only method to execute a full cleaning of this circuit will be to use bactericidal and fungicidal sprays, in fact, your air conditioning makes a lot of moisture that will stagnate in the circuit and will activate the production of germs and bacteria of all sorts. You will find these products on the internet or in car centres. There are two ways to perform this, here they are
Clean the air conditioning system of your Mercedes Benz M Class in the simple way
Once you have a disinfectant spray, you can instantly clean your car’s air-conditioning system.
The method is very easy, nevertheless, this technique can dirty the inside of your Mercedes Benz M Class.
- Take out 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 running) with air recycling
- With the windows closed, push the button on the bomb to empty it little by little and close the car doors and leave it on for about ten minutes.
- Once this time has passed, open the doors of your Mercedes Benz M Class, ventilation still on and let the passenger compartment air out for about 20 minutes.
This technique will allow you to rather quickly clean the air-conditioning system of your Mercedes Benz M Class, but if you have bad air-conditioning odours on your Mercedes Benz M Class that are persistent, we recommend you to utilise the second approach.
Clean deeply the air-conditioning system of your Mercedes Benz M Class
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Now let’s advance to the more radical technique of performing a cleaning of your ventilation system detailed. You will have to buy the same bactericidal and fungicidal spray, it is only the application that will be different. Here is the operation to follow:
- Take out your cabin filter.
- By the external air intake of your Mercedes Benz M Class (between the hood 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 closed for 5 minutes.
- Once this first step is completed 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 established under the glove box.
- Finally, to conclude, you can spray a few sprays into the vents of your Mercedes Benz M Class.
- 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 Mercedes Benz M Class
Finally, to finish our article, we will give you the main suggestions to respect, if you wish to maximize the life of your air conditioning system on Mercedes Benz M Class and limit unforeseen expenses.
- Have your air conditioning serviced every year
- Change your cabin filter every two years.
- Have your FREON gas recharged every two years.
- lean the air-conditioning system on your Mercedes Benz M Class every year.
If you want more tutorials on the Mercedes Benz M Class, go to our Mercedes Benz M Class category.
