How to quickly remove the unpleasant odor from the air conditioner. How to remove the unpleasant smell from the air conditioner?! Why the car smells from the 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.

Car enthusiasts that are particularly often air conditioned, often face the problem of an unpleasant smell of air from the salon ventilation system. So you turn on the fan, and instead of the expected cool breeze, the smell of the garbage bucket is "dumped". This unpleasant smell is especially strong in case of high humidity. There are already two alternatives, or to roast on the heat, or tolerate the smell, covering the nose with your hand. Although no, there is one more. Try to find the source of the smell and eliminate it. It is the question wherever he and on alternatives to get rid of this smell we will deal with this article.
In fact, the smell is the result of rotational processes, the reproduction of microorganisms on the surfaces of the ventilation system of the car. Indeed, the most favorable place for the growth of bacteria and for accumulation of garbage is an air conditioner evaporator. In fact, the evaporator is a radiator that cools the air. The air is dragged through the cabin filter or through the air intakes in the cabin (if recycling is enabled), then passes through the evaporator and is sent to the cabin. The evaporator at the same time, as all radiators have a very developed area and a complex shape, it is this feature that contributes to a large number of dirt and dust on its surface. At a time when air conditioning is turned on, the evaporator has a temperature below the ambient air, respectively, condensate will be formed on it. When we come to the parking lot and turn off the air conditioner, then the evaporator often remains the moisture, which now, together with the mud, heats up to the ambient temperature.
As a result, we have all the factors for breeding bacteria, the occurrence of rotting on the evaporator is water and dirt. So it turns out the smell, which as is not called: the wet rag, the smell of the refrigerator and in a joke, the smell of the old Japanese.

Of course, bacteria accumulates on other elements of the ventilation system, the fungus multiplies, but it is less massive. So, with the source of the smell of going on when the air conditioner is turned on, we figured out, now consider the options to get rid of it.

How to get rid of smell from the car's air conditioner do it yourself?

The answer to this question is simple, but the solution is multifaceted. Of course, from ventilation of the car, it is necessary to remove all the garbage, or at least neutralize bacteria living in secluded corners. In order to clean like the ventilation and get to the evaporator of the air conditioner, in some cases it is necessary to disassemble the instrument panel, and this oh, how not to hunt, and sometimes it is also not easy. An alternative to not to disassemble the instrument panel and not climb in search of malicious bacteria in the debris of your car, the use of gas, foam and liquid antibacterial drugs. Of course, the effectiveness of such treatment is torn, and relapse with an unpleasant smell higher, but the complexity is significantly lower.

Getting rid of the smell of air conditioner using a gas antiseptic

One of the most simple ways to get rid of smell, this is a gas antiseptic.

The sequence of its use is as follows. First of all, we turn on the air recirculation mode in the cabin, turn on the fan to the middle position. We find holes through which the saloon air fence occurs. As a rule, they are located at the foot of the driver and passenger. To detect air flow, you can apply a flame lighter. We base the cylinder in such a way that the emerging stream is headed into the air duct. Next, open the cylinder.

We close the car and leave minutes by 10. The processing was carried out.
If we talk about the pros, then this is the minimum effort. If we talk about minuses, then minimal efficiency.

Such a version of the antiseptic for cleaning the air conditioner resembles a cylinder with mounting foam and tube extension.

Used as follows. We remove the cabin filter and release the maximum volume of foam into the ventilation and air conditioning system.

Next, we start the engine and warm up the cooling system. The foam will still expand somewhat and go further. We are waiting for the foam, after about 10 to 15 minutes. After turning on the heater to work in different modes, in order to dry the foam and pull the antiseptic pairs into the system. The effectiveness of this method is somewhat higher than the previous one. Here foam is used locally and the concentration of the substance is higher, even there is a chance that it comes to the evaporator (if it is under the panel).

Processing with a liquid antiseptic will require you to maximize the penetration of the dislocation of bacteria, as in other times and in the previous cases.
In order to prepare an antiseptic with its own forces you need to have:
- chlorhexidine - 500 ml 0.05%. (Medical preparation is used to handle medical instruments, surgeon's hands, for preventing sexual diseases)
- You can add alcohol to this solution (1 part of the alcohol to 5 parts of chlorhexidine)
- At your request, aromatic fragrance can be added.

Without high-quality education, steam is an antiseptic, the effectiveness of its application will be minimal. To spray the system, it is best to use a spray gun for spraying plants. The mixture is used to flush the air ducts and evaporator.

Couples are absorbed through recycling air intakes with a fan turned on. Next, the processing is carried out through the hole for the installation of the cabin filter, towards the evaporator, also with the operating fan
Of course there are specialized solutions in liquid form for washing air conditioners. (example in the photo below)

Their main feature is a loyal effect on the evaporator materials, they do not react, do not oxidize the metal. If you apply COMET, DOMESTOS or their analogues, then in the future you can easily fear for serviceability, the tightness of your evaporator. Household chemicals can harm the integrity of aluminum parts. That is, if you decide to wash a liquid solution purchased in the store, then take the specialized composition.

And here is the apogee in the methods of cleaning the evaporator and the ventilation system and, as a result, getting rid of the unpleasant smell by 100%. This method will not be replaced if your evaporator is in the depths of the instrument panel. You have to disassemble the ventilation system, cleaning the ribs of the evaporator radiator, plastic cabinet parts with a dust and a rotor fungus.
To clean the aluminum parts, apply the composition of the liquid described in the previous version (not importantly purchased or manufactured by himself). For cleaning plastic can apply household chemicals.
As they would not be simple and at first glance, the methods described above are effective, but you will never remove the reason from the air ducts - the body - the body (dust, insects, seeds, foliage), if they were there, then there will be a "slow motion bomb", Which will show itself again. The photo below shows that it was found in disassembling the ventilation system, which filter did not cope with which volume of garbage he missed the evaporator.

Fungus on the walls of the ventilation system parts.

The fungus sometimes and with direct contact is very difficult to destroy, and remotely do it even more difficult. Disassemble and clean the most effective, but the most time-consuming way for those who want to get rid of the unpleasant smell.

Recommendations of preventing not pleasant smell when you turn on the air conditioner in the car

First of all, follow the cabin filters. Filters must effectively cope with their task. If possible, even in the interval between the replacement of the cabin filter, pull it out and remove the dirt and dust from it. The use of high-quality filters is also associated with the filter efficiency. So sometimes saving, we buy not an original filter. There is nothing terrible in this if the filter is made according to the size of the original. There are cases when the filter has obvious gaps through which an alternative, not purified air flow falls, such a filter is evil, and the savings are doubtful.
The second is a simple rule. Dry the evaporator before you put the car on a long parking lot. For this, prudently need to turn off the air conditioner in advance, 3-5 minutes before arriving at the place of your following. Fan Do not disconnect until the end of the trip. The warm air dries the evaporator, relieves it from moisture, respectively and bacteria will deprive the possibilities comfortably fruit in the womb.

How nice in a hot and silent day to feel a refreshing trend from the air conditioner of your car, but sometimes it happens that it is better to sit in the heat than with not a pleasant treason to breathe maliciousness, because it happens that the air conditioner stinks in the car so that consciousness. It happens when dangerous bacteria are formed on the edges of the internal evaporator of the air conditioner.

Over time, all the owners of air conditioners installed in cars are asked the same question: how does it smell or stink 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 and not pure air flow? This question appears in the conference "Air conditioners". There is an air conditioning service on it. Definitely nicely: wash the evaporator (this is a device that can be said, cold and produces air through it and, cooling, blows through the channels in the cabin). And the same simply call the price: 70 - 100 $ USD. Although, the answer containing only a part of the answer is alarming. They also answer that the procedure lasts about 4 hours. All that they managed to learn from the answers to the conference, is the following information:

1. Do not disassemble the system;

2. Do not reissue;

3. The client will immediately feel the difference.

Since I am as much as conditioned, and it is a pity for money, I wondered: what and how can they do during this time? Knowing our services, one and a half hours you can safely take the order at the receipt of the order and the delivery of the client. Up to the hour she will learn to search for free boxing and rolling back the car and order it to the client. From half an hour, you can safely withdraw to the preparation of servicemen themselves to work and remove traces of dirty robs from the seats of cars. There will be an hour. Well, let two. Since the disinfection of the evaporator is required, then it is still necessary to get to it. This is also time - from half an hour for knowledgeable will be enough to achieve to the evaporator and returning everything to its place. So the procedure itself is simple and not long.

So what to do to eliminate the smell? What smells like this in the car's cabin?

Why in the summer, when we turn on the fan after the car parking in the sun or in the heat, especially after a short parking in the face hit the wave odor, comparable to the one that you feel by opening the washing machine in which you have broken you forgotten a week ago, almost even wet lingerie?

First of origin, about the source of unpleasant smell in the car

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 and dampness is wide and smelly. Moisture or dampness is mixed with mud and dust in the system, moisturizes mold, fungi and bacteria, inevitably located there. Here you have the smell of dampness from the air conditioner in the car. 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.

What to do to resolve the problem with the elimination of the smell?

The first suggesting 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 harmful bacteria.

How to do this and how can this services do? It is clear that the chlorine will solve all the problems. But riding in 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: Lysol, it is a solution of cresol on a soap-oil basis. It is used for disinfection of 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, according to its disinfectant properties, superior all the well-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 agents are worth up to $ 40 USD for 12 pieces of 250 gram cans, i.e. For 3 liters. For one car processing, the manufacturer recommends using ½ banks. Well, let's say on the services for reliability use one aerosol jar ....

So, what do we, motorists do?

More details we consider the solution to this problem.

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 produce 300-400 ml. mortar (this is what kind of savings).

3. Pour the solution into a manual sprayer or an empty jar from under the wiper, if you wish to add perfumeful fragrances.

4. Open all windows in the machine lash.

5. Take the car, turn on the air conditioner to 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 be passed through the system and remain with a solution and get on glass and seats, take measures to prevent this. But who knows it as a material in the cabin, the skin or velor will behave, although this is a miracle of the bourgeois and in kindergartens on furniture and carpets.

6. Get out of the car and spray from the sprayer to the air intake holes 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 an invisible place. You can simply cover up a rag with a newspaper so that there are no water flots on the hood. It was disinfection of air ducts (what services do not write about - they only say 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. We 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 so everything! Enjoy clean, fresh air in the cabin of your car.

Feel the unpleasant odor from the air conditioner? So it's time for his disinfection.

A modern car is not a luxury for a long time, but a means for comfortable movement. The car stuff provides for all sorts of situations: from secure parking before creating a microclimate inside the cabin. Almost any car coming from the conveyor is equipped with air conditioning or climate control systems.
Scientists have established a clear relationship between the situation in the car and driving safety and came to the conclusion that the temperature is 20-22 degrees, the level of humidity is 30-50% for humans. At temperatures above 30 degrees, the person's response slows down.

And on a hot day you can get a heat strike: so before sitting in a car, which was on the sun for a long time, it is better to open the windows, doors, blow the hot air and only after that start moving.

Provide a comfortable driving mode in hot weather can only air conditioning system.

If you feel that the air conditioner has become worse to calm down - this is the first sign that it is time to perform diagnostics and eliminate malfunctions in the air conditioning system.

However, there are such situations when it is ok, but when you turn on the air conditioner, you feel an unpleasant smell. Most often, it arises due to accumulated bacteria and fungi. To breathe them and uncomfortable, and harmful - they can cause allergic and colds. Eliminate this problem will help special tools for servicing the air conditioning systems.

Cleaners of air conditioners contain a special package of detergent additives, which eliminates various contaminants, including bacteria and fungi.

The air conditioner cleaner provides a pleasant smell, preventing the appearance of an unpleasant "dull".

By eliminating bacteria and fungi, allergic reactions are also prevented.

Household cleaners of air conditioning systems are easy to use. Consider the example of the "Airco-Fresh" cleaner "Wynns" (this drug was created on the basis of professional Clean Set (Double Treatment) PN 60605, which consists of two products: Airco Clean Pre Wash and Airco Clean Antiseptic. However This drug can only be used at maintenance stations equipped with special equipment. Therefore, in 2001, the manufacturer began to produce Airco Fresh PN30202 in a convenient aerosol packaging. Of course, in its characteristics, it is weaker than professionally, however, with periodic use (once a year) it fully justifies itself ).

Suitable for use in all air conditioning systems, both equipped with a dust filter, and not. If you have a dust filter, remove it.

The first method of use is through the engine compartment.

Remove the dust filter (Fig. 1).

Install automatic mode and maximum fan speeds (Fig. 4).

Set the temperature control to the cold air position (Fig. 3), but it is necessary to turn off the air conditioner (Fig. 2). For automatic climate control systems, set the temperature controller to the minimum position and turn on the ECO mode if possible, or disconnect the air conditioner (Fig. 2). (See Car Operation Recommendations).

Before using the tool thoroughly shake.

Spray the cleaner in air conditioning air intake

(More often it is located in the motor compartment from the passenger side) (Fig. 1).

Spray the tool for 3 minutes with an interval of 3 seconds.

The second way of use - through the interior.

Set the air output only through the central duct.

Turn on the air recirculation mode and set the maximum fan speed (Fig. 4 and 5).

Install the temperature controller to the cold air position (Fig. 3), but it is necessary to turn off the air conditioner. For automatic climate control systems, set the temperature controller to the minimum position and turn on the ECO mode if possible, or disconnect the air conditioner (Fig. 2). (See Car Operation Recommendations).

Means thoroughly shake.

Position the canister at the most powerful air intake and spray the tool for 1 minute. More often, this air intake is located under the torpedo from the passenger side (Fig. 6).

After 10 minutes you can enjoy air conditioning.