Air conditioning is by far the most important features on newer cars. Although it was historically reserved for high-end models, it has today been democratized for a large proportion of cars. However, this pricey and sophisticated mechanism requires special treatment, and whether it’s for service or because of odours, it is definitely important to think about cleaning the air conditioning of your Suzuki Vitara. This is exactly what we will teach you in more detail in this document. First we will look in detail at the technique to clean the air conditioning of your Suzuki Vitara, then in a second part, we will look more generally at the service of the air conditioning of your Suzuki Vitara.
How to clean my Suzuki Vitara air conditioning
Let’s commence our document with the cleaning of the air conditioning circuit of your Suzuki Vitara. The only method to accomplish a full cleaning of this circuit will be to use bactericidal and fungicidal products, actually, your air conditioning makes a lot of moisture that will stay in the circuit and will promote the expansion of germs and bacteria of all sorts. You will find these products on the internet or in car centres. There are two solutions to get this done, here they are
Service the air conditioning circuit of your Suzuki Vitara in a simple way
Once you have a disinfectant spray, you can instantly clean your car’s air-conditioning circuit.
The technique is very easy, however, this procedure can dirty the inside of your Suzuki Vitara.
- Take off the cabin filter.
- Install 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 running) with air recycling
- With the windows closed, push the button on the bomb to empty it slowly but surely and close the car doors and leave it on for about ten minutes.
- Once this time has passed, open the doors of your Suzuki Vitara, ventilation still on and let the passenger compartment air out for about 20 minutes.
This technique will allow you to fairly quickly clean the air-conditioning system of your Suzuki Vitara, but if you have bad air-conditioning odours on your Suzuki Vitara that are persistent, we suggest you to exercise the second technique.
Clean deeply the air-conditioning system of your Suzuki Vitara
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Now let’s move on to the more significant 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 different. Here is the operation to stick to:
- Take off your cabin filter.
- By the external air intake of your Suzuki Vitara (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 stage is finished 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 found under the glove box.
- Finally, to conclude, you can spray a few sprays into the vents of your Suzuki Vitara.
- 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 Suzuki Vitara
Finally, to finish our document, we will give you the main suggestions to respect, if you desire to maximize the life of your air conditioning circuit on Suzuki Vitara 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 Suzuki Vitara every year.
If you want more guides on the Suzuki Vitara, go to our Suzuki Vitara category.
