Air conditioning is by far the most appreciated options on newer cars. Despite the fact it was historically available to high-end versions, it has nowadays been democratized for a large proportion of automobiles. However, this expensive and elaborate equipment needs special treatment, and whether it’s for service or because of odours, it is completely necessary to think about cleaning the air conditioning of your Opel Zafira 3. This is specifically what we will demonstrate in detail in this article. First we will check in detail at the process to clean the air conditioning of your Opel Zafira 3, then in a second part, we will look more generally at the service of the air conditioning of your Opel Zafira 3.
How to clean my Opel Zafira 3 air conditioning
Let’s begin our article with the cleaning of the air conditioning circuit of your Opel Zafira 3. The only method to conduct a full cleaning of this circuit will be to use bactericidal and fungicidal sprays, in fact, your air conditioning creates a lot of moisture that will stagnate in the circuit and will activate the development of germs and bacteria of all kinds. 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 Opel Zafira 3 in an easy way
Once you have a disinfectant spray, you can easily clean your car’s air-conditioning circuit.
The process is quite simple, however, this technique can dirty the inside of your Opel Zafira 3.
- Take out the cabin filter.
- Set up the disinfectant spray on the floor of your car (preferably 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, press the button on the bomb to empty it slowly but surely and close the automobile doors and leave it on for about ten minutes.
- Once this time has passed, open the doors of your Opel Zafira 3, ventilation still on and let the passenger compartment air out for about 20 minutes.
This methodology will allow you to fairly quickly clean the air-conditioning system of your Opel Zafira 3, but if you have bad air-conditioning odours on your Opel Zafira 3 that are persistent, we recommend you to exercise the second approach.
Clean deeply the air-conditioning system of your Opel Zafira 3
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Now let’s go forward to the more radical process of performing a cleaning of your ventilation circuit in depth. 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 Opel Zafira 3 (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 A moment.
- Once this first stage is achieved 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 placed under the glove box.
- Finally, to conclude, you can spray a few sprays into the vents of your Opel Zafira 3.
- 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 Opel Zafira 3
Finally, to conclude our article, we will give you the main recommendations to respect, if you desire to maximize the life of your air conditioning circuit on Opel Zafira 3 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 Opel Zafira 3 every year.
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