An unpleasant smell in the car after turning on the air conditioner. The smell of car air conditioner - where does he come from?! Or how to clean the air conditioner. What's wrong with such a smell

Disinfection of the air conditioner evaporator and car interior!

Often owners automobile air conditioners You have to deal with 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

Motorists who are especially often air conditioned, often face a problem unpleasant odor Air running from the ventilation system of the cabin. 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 Getting 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 on different modesIn 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 make an antiseptic with their own forces 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, processing is carried out through a hole for installation salon filter, towards the evaporator, also with a working 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 long parking. 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.

In the instructions for classic type air conditioners (not climate control) there is an indication of how to avoid unpleasant smell from the air conditioner, however, few people pay attention to it. It is recommended before turning off the engine, for a couple of minutes, turn on the heating of the cabin to full to dry the air conditioner evaporator from water condensate. As you know, it is a water condensate that creates conditions for breeding bacteria, from here and an unpleasant smell of air conditioning.

We will talk about how to get rid of the unpleasant smell from the air conditioner when the car owner, by ignorance, neglected the instructions. The simplest thing is to come to the service and tell about the problem. The intervention of professionals will long eliminate the unpleasant smell and facilitate the wallet for several thousand rubles. How do they work? There is nothing particularly difficult in professional cleaning, but the procedure is quite laborious. It is necessary to provide access to the air conditioner evaporator in order for the effect of the cleaner (antibacterial fluid) to be as efficiently as possible. Often, to get to the evaporator, partial disassembly of the front panel of the car is required, and the removal of the salon filter is necessarily in all cases. But the qualitative result and elimination of unpleasant odor from the air conditioner is long possible to achieve only high-quality cleaning solutions of multifunctional action.

For professional use Liqui Moly. It offers the newest two-component disinfectant solution of KLIMA-Anlagen-Reiniger 2K with cleansing functions and, most importantly, with the effect of water repulsion. That is, after using the drug, all pathogenic bacteria and fungi will be destroyed, but water will not accumulate on the evaporator, which will significantly increase the duration of the cleaning effect. Klima-Anlagen-Reiniger 2K is a novelty, but has already received approval for use from Jaguar & Land Rover, confirming the high quality of the product. The advantage of professional cleaning in the duration of the effect, the problem with the smell leaves at least half a year, you breathe fresh air.

However, when cleaning the air conditioner from unpleasant smell and bacteria, you can do without the help of professionals. Assortment Liqui Moly has custom simple use products. No need to partially disassemble the car. In order to remove the unpleasant odor from the air conditioner, the car will help, or rather its ventilation system. It is enough to place the Liqui Moly Klimafresh aerosol can in the cabin, in the recirculation air fence zone (usually in the legs front passenger) and enable the ventilation system into recirculation mode. Next, the ventilation system will do everything itself, the aerosol from the cylinder will be held through the air conditioner evaporator, the air ducts and the salon itself. All pathogenic microorganisms will be destroyed in 10 minutes, it is so much the composition of the cylinder is sprayed. There will be a pleasant perfume fragrance in the cabin. For details using Liqui Moly Klimafresh, see the product label or in the product description on our website.

The use of Klimafresh will bring a noticeable effect, you will immediately feel fresh air and the absence of odors, although of course it is worth noting that the effect of professional cleaning will be slightly higher.

The main reason for the unpleasant smell of the car is considered contaminated evaporator. If he was not washed for a long time, the cause of the smell may be bacteria that are formed on it. After reading the entry, you will learn how to eliminate it yourself at home.

Colonies of bacteria appear in the device of the air conditioner due to the constant circulation of cold and hot air. If, after a long operation, the air conditioner is turned off, the cold air from the street falls on its main part after active work. Such air creates condensate, which is removed by drainage tubes, but its appearance is enough to become a good place to form bacteria.

The cause of the smell is exactly what. Working while driving a car, air conditioning, namely, its main part, evaporator, heats up. After turning off the air conditioner, it enters cold air from the street. Interacting with a heated detail, the air settles as moisture, as a result of which the colonies of bacteria appear on it. The smell from them can be both weak and strong, but always it looks like a smell of a wet cloth, left for several days in a locked point.

Such condensate from mold and bacteria gives it to know yourself, starting to smell during the next inclusion of the air conditioner, filling the salon unpleasant wet and fine air. The air vents in the process of operation of the device are dried, and there are direct access to neoplasms, which are the cause of the smell.

Elimination by chemistry

Solve the question of the front air at best proper operation Cooling device. Turning it off to the stop, you alone give the system to ventilate, and already on the car parking lot your air conditioning will expect the next turn on dry and clean. But this approach does not always solve the problem completely, and his minus is that you are obliged to sacrifice our comfort, without exploiting the possibilities of your car fully.

Another way to get rid of harmful bacteria colonies is on time or periodically disinfection of the cabin, and most importantly - air conditioner with evaporator. Usually, chlorine is used for disinfection of cranes and any other products. But for the car, this method of cleaning is hardly suitable, although the chloric is a very strong reagent, it will have to use it in the respirator or even a gas mask. Agree that today there are more practical and convenient disinfection methods, and use chlorine for cleaning your airlows of your vehicle A little wrong.

The best option for washing the evaporator is a tool that can advise in any pharmacy or medical institution. Moreover, they use it even for disinfection of medical devices. The tool is called cresol, it does not have a strong third-party smell, they clean the tools before surgery, medical gloves, and it kills it a large number of bacteria different speciesincluding cholera. Crezol is called the main component of the Lizol, which is diluted with soap-oil fluid.

The disinfectant properties of cresol are very strong, and the reason is the valid element phenol. It is the main ingredient of the compositions that are used for the disinfection of cars. Professional cleaning of air conditioners, hotels and educational institutions is carried out by professional means, which can sometimes be expensive. Packaging such a means may be enough for a long time, and for cleaning the air-conditioning machine, it may take quite a bit of such a composition.

Flushing evaporator

The washing of the evaporator is carried out in several stages. These steps should be performed consistently, and as a result, you can get a completely new evaporator and the air conditioning system that will not smell, and will fill the interior with clean fresh air without sweat and bacteria.

1. First you need to buy a cleaning agent, namely Lizol. If it is not, you can find any other composition containing this drug. You can also buy a concentrated liquid based on lysol.
2. The composition is divorced in water in accordance with 1 to 100, and 300-400 milliliters funds should be enough.
3. Cleaning liquid to pour into a bottle or sprayer. Escape a bottle of sprayer and add a little essential oil - so work will be carried out simply and with the smell that you like.
4. Open the windows of the machine and the hatch of the manifestation - to work a constant influx of fresh air from the street is necessary.
5. We include ignition, and with it air conditioning and fan. The nozzles of the air lines in the area of \u200b\u200blegs or faces
6. A solution is disseminated into the hole of the air intake, it is desirable to do it not with a jet and not large portions. But it should not save, because Lizol should get inside and struggling with bacteria. It is best to create large clouds of small drops of cleaning fluid.
7. Disconnecting the engine, allow the solution to perform its task inside the air-conditioning system.
8. After some time, we turn on the system again, and we spat out the residues inside the cabin. If all the steps are performed correctly, soon in the cabin will again begin to circulate clean air.

The frequency of using the air conditioner affects the appearance of bacteria directly. Conditions of operation in this issue are playing not a latter role. A dusty country road is much worse displayed in a condition of the capacitor, rather than the urban view of the level asphalt. Well, of course, the cleaning of the capacitor on the service is much lengthens the service life and the correct operation of the air-conditioning system.

Since the unpleasant smell is unable to force anyone, it is best to protect yourself from his appearance. The result of the correct operation of the air conditioner will never bring trouble to the driver in the cabin. The first signs of his pollution is best removed immediately, and if you feel that soon your salon will be filled with not fragrances, but in the air, small prevention does not hurt. Best of all while driving, namely, a couple of minutes before the stop, turn off the air conditioner. Having ventilated with fresh air already without heating and cooling, the air conditioner will cool down to the moment of stop, and there will be no problems with the next time it will be. This approach will reduce the amounts of cleaning and extend the ride time with its use for several weeks or even a month.

Disinfection should be carried out with open doors And even a hatch, after all, airing the interior when the engine is on, you will protect yourself from moisture and unpleasant smell.

Simultaneously with the cleaning of the heater, the entire volume of the body of your car is also ventilated.
Repeated disinfection is carried out inside the cabin. Thus, Lizol kills completely all bacteria, allowing you not to return more to this problem topic. Spraying the solution into air intakes, it is necessary to monitor its amount. You can not send a stream of solution into the holes of the air lines and at the same time it cannot be saved hard. The solution should fully interact with accumulated inside the air purification system moisture and bacteria.

Video "Eliminate the unpleasant smell of car air conditioner"

On records, the motorist shows how correctly at home can be cleaned with an air conditioner evaporator.

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 means To maintain 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 professionality, however, with periodic use (once a year), it fully justifies himself).

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 systems Climate control 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 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.