Air conditioning is one of the most important features on recent cars. Even though it was in past times reserved for high-end models, it has today been democratized for the vast majority of cars. Nevertheless, this pricey and sophisticated mechanism requires special attention, and whether it’s for maintenance or because of odours, it is totally important to think about cleaning the air conditioning of your Renault Latitude. This is specifically what we will teach you in detail in this content. First we will take a look in detail at the procedure to clean the air conditioning of your Renault Latitude, then in a second step, we will look more generally at the maintenance of the air conditioning of your Renault Latitude.
How to clean my Renault Latitude air conditioning
Let’s commence our content with the cleaning of the air conditioning system of your Renault Latitude. The only option to execute a total cleaning of this system will be to use bactericidal and fungicidal products, in reality, your air conditioning makes loads of moisture that will stay in the system and will help the expansion of germs and bacteria of all sorts. You will find these items on the internet or in car centres. There are two procedures to accomplish this, here they are
Service the air conditioning circuit of your Renault Latitude 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, however, this treatment can dirty the inside of your Renault Latitude.
- Take off the cabin filter.
- Set up the disinfectant spray on the floor of your car (preferably on the passenger side).
- Start 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 gradually and close the car doors and leave it on for about ten minutes.
- Once this time has passed, open the doors of your Renault Latitude, ventilation still on and let the passenger compartment air out for about 20 minutes.
This methodology will allow you to quickly clean the air-conditioning system of your Renault Latitude, but if you have bad air-conditioning odours on your Renault Latitude that are persistent, we recommend you to utilise the second solution.
Clean deeply the air-conditioning system of your Renault Latitude
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Now let’s advance to the more radical approach of performing a cleaning of your ventilation circuit in depth. You will have to buy the same bactericidal and fungicidal product, it is only the application that will be distinct. Here is the operation to stick to:
- Take off your cabin filter.
- By the external air intake of your Renault Latitude (between the hood and the windscreen), with the engine on and the ventilation on, spray several times for 5 seconds and leave all windows and doors shut down for Five minutes.
- Once this first stage is conducted 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 finish, you can spray a few sprays into the vents of your Renault Latitude.
- 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 Renault Latitude
Finally, to finish our content, we will give you the main tips to respect, if you want to maximize the life of your air conditioning circuit on Renault Latitude 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 Renault Latitude every year.
To find more tips on the Renault Latitude, take a look at the Renault Latitude category.
