This article is devoted to how to eliminate the unpleasant and suffocating smell from the vehicle air conditioner. The problem is most often manifested in used cars or after years of operation. So, what could be the reason for this terrible smell, if you can call it so? And the reason is simple - the reproduction of fungi and bacteria on the air conditioner evaporator. The first thing is to check - the cabin filter of the car. If it is worth it, it must be thrown away, it is to throw it out, not to wash and not wash, since it may contain a large number of harmful bacteria that delete, do not work out. Replaced the filter, the smell remained. What to do next? There is a way out here. And you do not need to buy any expensive super fans and the like. However, it is worth noting that this method works in case the contamination of the evaporator is not very strong. That is, the evaporator does not see the layer of dirt. Although this can be eliminated. Let's in order. First of all, we find where the cabin filter is located and take it out. In some cars, the filter shows the evaporator radiator. Highlighting a flashlight, we estimate its contamination. If it is clean, well, we close the filter cover without installing the filter! Next, we need chlorhexidine - this is an antiseptic. Sold on any pharmacy as a solution. At 150 ... 200 grams of warm water, pour 50 ml of antiseptics. We take the usual sprayer and pour the solution into it. Now, we switch the seizure of the air outside, the flow of air to the legs and face. We reveal wide all the doors and cover the front seats. The air conditioner must be turned off, the temperature is minimum. We turn on the fan to full power and spray the solution at the air intake. We repeat the procedure two three times, with a break of 15 ... 20 minutes. At the end of the processing, we dry the system, without splashing into it. We check on smell in working condition. These events in most cases are enough to eliminate all odors. Nevertheless, if the smell remained, then you can clean the evaporator directly, it is done with a toothbrush. The brush is wetted in solution, then the evaporator radiator is carefully cleaned. Wash water is not required. It is recommended to carry out such a procedure twice a year, in spring and autumn. This will make it possible to get rid of unpleasant odors and eliminate pathogenic microorganisms from the air ventilation system. Added to the entire outlined, I would also like that, with very strong evaporator pollution, you need to resort to special drugs sold in stores. But it's also not to get involved in them - this is chemistry. After processing with a special substance, it is enough, as I wrote, twice a year to carry out preventive measures and forget about the "soul" air conditioner.
The main source provoking these rather unpleasant moments is often bacteria accumulated over time in the evaporator. And the shaft smell arising in the process of their livelihoods is not the worst result of such pollution. There are cases when microorganisms have been provoked by the driver and passengers of the disease.
All of the above are quite well-known and studied facts, and therefore, regular prophylactic cleaning of the automotive air conditioner nodes enters the list of mandatory procedures recommended by dealers for most modern foreign cars. Such prevention is guaranteed to avoid unpleasant smell in Condeya canals.
However, as evidenced by the service practice, the owners of the Iron Horses, especially used, rarely, when they themselves order this procedure. The main reason is its relatively high cost.
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However, today to clean the air channels of the ventilation system, as well as the air conditioner nodes, joined it, is quite independently, due to the appearance of specialized in the Russian market. With their help, even a novice car enthusiast can carry out the so-called duodorization of air ducts with their own hands.
One of these products is the "Cleaner of the Klima Anlagen Reiniger air conditioner", developed by the chemists of the German company. Unlike a variety of other analogues presented in our market, the drug Klima Anlagen Reiniger has some functional features.
If we speak more objective, the German product is supplied to us in the cylinders of the larger volume, each such a canister has a special device in the form of a long plastic probe equipped with a sprayer. This design of the probe allows you to move it away to the internal cavities of the air ducts and process them much better than ordinary aerosols.
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Experts checked the German aerosol cleaner in the case - on one of the editorial machines, in the cabin of which, when the "Condishna" was turned on, a unpleasant smell began to appear. Proted the drug and began to prepare for the procedure. As it turned out during the preparation, for the use of Klima Anlagen Reinigen, a flexible probe (or rather, its return part) should be pre-fixed on the cylinder lid.
It turned out that the probe is fixed rather tenaciously, which is very important when conducting preventive treatment. As for the composition itself, according to the attached description, it is an aqueous solution of bronophole, destroying all known, including those and dangerous to Legionella. Curious moment: the remains of the bacterial biomass after using the drug together with the liquid are removed by grades through the drainage of the air conditioner, due to which, in fact, the characteristic shaft is eliminated from the machine.
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When using a cleaner, two thirds of the means are recommended to spray the evaporator, after removing the cabin filter, and the remaining third is spent on the processing of air ducts. Our experience has shown that at first stage - dismantling the filter and spraying the evaporator channel - you will need ten minutes to fifteen. Another about the same amount will go to the unhurried cleaning of all air ducts. With the help of the probe, we were processed through the central air ducts, where there were several powerful injections of cleansing spray.
Over time, all the owners of air conditioners in the car are asked the same question: what smells (stinks) in my car? Why, when the ignition is turned on, when the fan begins to work, in the face beats a jet far from incense?
During the inclusion in the car of the air conditioner together with the cool air in the interior of the car, the "fragrance" is entered whether the rogger is flown, or a vegetable warehouse. In such cases, it is said that a fungus appeared in the air conditioner.
First about the origin, the source of the smell.
When we turn off the engine, the air conditioner is turned off. And the cold air ducts and evaporator gets wet hot air from the street.
Finding on the cold parts of the air ducts and evaporator, moisture is instantly condensed from the air. And only water would be fine. The composition of moisture is wide and stoych. The moisture is mixed with mud and dust in the system, moisturizes mold, fungi and bacteria, inevitably located there. Here you are the smell. With the air conditioner, the moisture is carried out into the cabin and the air ducts are dried. But part of it remains when the fan is turned off. And with each subsequent inclusion of moisture is added, the polystands of the bacteria. And over the years, the smell exceeds the threshold of the tolerance of our nose.
If you smoke in the cabin with a working air conditioner and the enabled recycling, then the result is not better to stomp than from the ashtray. After all, in addition to the rest, on the outer sides of the evaporator, the cigarette smoke is also settled. It happens that the ill-fated Pooh clogs a drainage system. In such cases, the NTP of the evaporator simply bathes in the condensate, and the inner fan poices not clean air into the cabin, and its mixture with water.
What in this case to do? If the drainage system is clogged, it must be cleaned. This is understandable and without our advice. But if there is still a weakness of air flow with the problems described above, then this is probably the same problem of a scoring evaporator or salon air filter. The filter in the car is desirable to change annually.
An unpleasant smell of air conditioning is not the only problem emanating from an unclean evaporator. Some types of microbes, colonizing dirty evaporators, carry a serious danger of human health.
The most dangerous disease that can be picked up through a dirty car evaporator - Legionelle. In order to infect legionelles, it is necessary to get into human lightly fine hydro-aerosol carrying legionella. Thus, air conditioning is a good seatingman for Legionell. The dirty air conditioner evaporator is invariably wet, located in a narrow space in the dark, gradually appear on it blue-green algae, contributing to the appearance of Legionell. If the drainage system is on your air conditioner clogged with mud, then the evaporator is alone in the water at all. For the development of hydro-aerosol, the conditions are fine.
Of course, you should not worry and run to the doctor, but the evaporator is better to keep clean.
What to do to resolve the problem?
The first answer to the answer is to keep the system dry, if possible, turning the air conditioner shortly before we come to the parking lot. This will allow the condensed moisture to dry out the flow of warm air and reduce the subsequent condensation of moisture, increasing the temperature of the air ducts. But this will not solve the problem with the existing smell.
It suggests a solution to the problem, suggested by services - disinfection. That is killing bacteria.
How to do this and how can this services do? It is clear that the chlorine will solve all the problems: o) but riding a gas mask sharply reduces the driver's review. Let us turn into medical institutions and ask what they disinfect all that they should be disinfected?
Answer: Lizol, it is a solution of cresol on a soap-oil basis. It is used for disinfection of a surgical instrument (!), Hands before surgery (!), Operating (!) And toilets, by the way! As well as the destruction of flies, the source of cholera, and so on, other, so on. What is this miracle, in its disinfectant properties exceeding everything known (and even chlorine!)?! This is such a phenol. And precisely on the basis of this phenol, professional preparations for disinfection of air conditioners in cars, schools, hospitals, motels, etc. are available. And these professional funds are up to $ 40 for (about horror !!!) 12 pieces of 250 gram cans !!! Those. For 3 liters. For one car processing, the manufacturer recommends using ½ banks. Well, let's say on services for reliability use one aerosol jar. Further silent:
So, what do we, orphans do? Suggest.
1. Get lisol - concentrate or lisol-containing solutions. (even with smells!)
2. Dilute pure lizol in proportion 1: 100 (the surgical instrument is disinfected at 1:20), to obtain 300-400 ml. Solution (this is what saving !!).
3. Pour the solution into a manual sprayer or an empty jar from under the wiper, if you wish to add perfume spindles.
4. Open all windows in the machine lash.
5. Wash the car, turn on the air conditioner to the full, turn on the fan as much as possible. Direct the stream of air in the cabin in the face / feet, lowering the nozzle down. Since theoretically, the solution can still pass through the system and remain with a solution and get on the glass and seats, take measures to prevent this (although, I think it is superfluous. But, God knows how the skin and velor will behave, although they use this bourgeois tool and in kindergartens on furniture and carpets).
6. Get out of the car and spray from the sprayer into the opening of the air intake at the windshield. Try not to save and not pour jets, namely sprinkle the fog - it should do a normal sprinkler. Since we all love our cars, I would check the action of the solution on the paint and glass in the "imperceptible place: oh) :). You can simply cover up a rag with a newspaper so that there are no water flutters along the hood. It was disinfection of the air ducts (as they do not write Services - they are only about the evaporator).
7. Turn off the engine. We are waiting for ten minutes - let Lizol lead an unequal battle (unequal for bacteria).
8. We start the engine (air conditioning and fan we did not touch - they begin to work with might and main). Open the car from the passenger side. Turn on the internal recycling of air (close air access from the street). Windows are open. We spray without bothering water dust under the feet of the passenger, under the glove box (glove box). There is a fence of air during recirculation mode. Air falls on the evaporator and then on the system. If possible, it would be nice to reach the evaporator actually and pour it abundantly. But it will go (at such a value of the procedure and the possibility of regular repeat!). Turn off the ignition. If necessary (if still the smell ullants) repeat every other day.
And that's all! Enjoy clean air.
Disinfection of the air conditioner evaporator and car interior!
Often, owners of automotive air conditioners have to face such a problem as a terrible smell. When you turn on the air conditioner, along with the cooled air into the car, the car is coming "aroma" whether overwhelming rags, or a vegetable base. In such cases, it is usually said that the air conditioner began the fungus.
The evaporator is the same radiator, only small, passing through it, air and cooled. Together with the air, especially if the microfilter does not stand before the evaporator, a poplar fluff, dust and dirt sucking from the street. Since the evaporator when the air conditioner is an ice-cold, moisture is condensed on it, and it is constantly wet (this moisture merges through the drainage to the street). Have you tried to leave an uneasy cloth? Stenage will go from it in 2 days. So here, if you look at the evaporator of the car, which traveled in Moscow for several years, and who does not have this microfilter, you will come to horror!
When you turn off the air conditioner, the evaporator begins to heat and gives out the entire bouquet of aromas, coated with tropical wet air. But you start the car again, and again click on the air conditioner button. In the first minutes, someone - seconds of work, until the evaporator is properly cooled, you get into the salon the air is no worse than in the sauna. And as they cool and cooling, the smells leave at all or become almost imperceptible.
If you smoke in the cabin when the air conditioner is enabled and the recirculation mode is enabled, you will eventually state as an ashtray. After all, plus to all of the time, on the outer walls of the evaporator and tobacco smoke. It happens that the ill-fated Pooh clogs the drainage of the system. In these cases, the lower part of the evaporator simply floats in condensate, and the cabin fan will fan not only air, but also water.
What do you do in such cases? If the drainage is clogged, it must be cleaned. This is clear and without our prompts. But if the above problems have also been added to the fact that the air flow into the salon is weak, then this is most likely the same problem with a scored evaporator or a salon air filter. This filter is desirable to change every year.
The bad smell in the car is not the only trouble emanating from the dirty evaporator. Some types of bacteria, colonizing dirty evaporators of air conditioners, represent a serious danger to human health.
Of course, you should not panic and run to doctors, but the evaporator is better maintained clean. As they say, God is escaped.
How to protect yourself and your car from all of the above. It is clear that only dismantling of the air conditioner's evaporator and its subsequent mechanical cleaning will help in particularly launched cases. Therefore, in order to maintain the evaporator in its pure form, it is necessary regularly, at least once a year, to produce disinfection.
We offer the disinfection of the air conditioner evaporator, and for one and disinfection of the entire car interior with the installation of air conditioners Wynns AirComatic. and special fluid Airco-Clean® Ultrasonic for Cars
