Aircon smells
Submitted: Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 14:49
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Hi All!
When I switch on aircon on my HJ80 it smells as two dead dogs. Anyone knows what the easiest way to clean it? And what should I look at to clean? One year back I wipe off all dust what I could access from all airdicts, but smell still here.
Thanks in advance.
Reply By: Gerhardp1 - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 14:56
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 14:56
I had a stale smell through
mine as
well - I used a can of Glen 20 and sprayed through the vents while aircon was running with full fan, repeated several times. Also sprayed into whatever openings I could access from inside the car.
Makes the car a bit pukey while concentration is heaviest, but fixed the problem.
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Follow Up By:- Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 15:18
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 15:18
Thanks for suggestion. May I ask sily qustion - what is Glen20 and where I can get it?
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Follow Up By: Gerhardp1 - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 15:22
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 15:22
It's an "odour eating" disinfectant type of stuff.
Should be available in the
supermarket, or maybe a chemist or cleaning supplies place. Made by PineOClean.
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Follow Up By: disco driver - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:24
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:24
Hi All
I have used Glen20 with some success but have since found a better, IMHO, product known as "Nil-Odor" (not sure about the spelling).
This stuff will remove the smell of stale cigarette smoke, baby poo, vomit or just about anything else permanently.
May take a treatment or two but it will work.
I used it to freshen up a Hilux I bought from a guy who always had a smoke going, even in the loo.
It comes in a smallish spraypump pack and you just squirt it around, I ran the air con on recycle and sprayed it toward the intake vents. Worked
wellWell worth a try
Cheers
Disco
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Follow Up By: Gerhardp1 - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 18:14
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 18:14
Yep, have also used nilodor. For my nose, nilodor smells worse than the target :) and the residual smell hangs around longer than Glen20 residual.
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Reply By: Shaker - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:07
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:07
This must have been posted by a ghost!
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Follow Up By: Kev M (QLD Bound) - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:27
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:27
It's been happening a lot lately.
Kev
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Reply By: donks1 - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:20
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:20
hi there
not sure where you live but when i was in country Qld mice and rats were a common problem. they would climb into the evapourator box and then couldn't get out.
quite a rank smell, but you always new where to look first.
donks
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Follow Up By:- Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:34
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:34
Hm-m-m-m. Live in
Melbourne, but my car definately from Quinsland. I have it for 2 years, and it still smelly. What really puzzle me that if something shi... hm... put a deposit in ventilation it should smell much more with heater (air also going via evaporator). Nope,
mine smells only with aircon. And it does not appears to be someone poo or roten flesh, but rather like some chemical. I thought it is cooling agent, but if it would leak I have to run it out ages ago, yet my canister still full.
Puzzle indeed.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: guzzi - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 17:47
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 17:47
You dont by any chance have a few really "good" mates that stick dead "presents" in your car do you?
That old chest nut has kept many a mate in hysterics.............
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Reply By: LGen1 - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:20
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:20
It is probably stale condensation, should disappear after running A/C for a short while.
Usually happens when A/C not used for awhile.
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Reply By: BorisK - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 17:00
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 17:00
Wurth have a product especially for this purpose. About $26. Any mechanic should know about it.
Regards
Boris
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Reply By: Brew34.5(SA) - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 17:25
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 17:25
Another vote for Nil Odour
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Reply By: Sand Man (SA) - Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 18:57
Friday, Sep 14, 2007 at 18:57
Bio Magic leaves them all for dead. Does not have a strong "odour" itself and available in larger containers for porta potty use, etc., pump spray (useless as the pump sticks after a few uses, like Nil Odour) and a 120ml aerosol spray pack that is very practical.
I also have tried Nil Odour but the Odour of the product itself is somewhat "obnoxious" in confined spaces for a while.
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Reply By: Outnabout David (SA) - Saturday, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:58
Saturday, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:58
Do you run your air cond on recirculate setting? If you do you get all the in car smells attaching themselves to your unit under the dash. pays to run on the fresh setting where possible.
Any of the above remedies should work unless of course to do have something dead in there. I once had a rat get in
mine but when nhe went down the vents to the fan that was the end of him. But a very big job to clean the mess up. lucky it was a company car
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