smelly aircon

**toptek** · 16-06-2010,10:59 PM

i have smelly aircon at the moment the usual damp smell, my local garage suggested buying and using a can of Wurth air con disinfectant spray, which must be sprayed into the condensate drain, where is this drain situated? haynes manual not much help. any ideas would be greatly appreciated. thanx for your help

warp_speed · 17-06-2010,09:07 AM

Originally Posted by toptek

i have smelly aircon at the moment the usual damp smell, my local garage suggested buying and using a can of Wurth air con disinfectant spray, which must be sprayed into the condensate drain, where is this drain situated? haynes manual not much help. any ideas would be greatly appreciated. thanx for your help

I think I remember someone spraying a disinfectant and anti fungus spray into the air con air inlet, they had taken their pollen filter out, switched off the air recycling and switched on the air con. They sprayed the cleaner into the opening. I think this would work better than the normal aircon cleaning cans that you spray into the cabin with the aircon on. This never worked for me and Audi couldn't fix my smell aircon..... muppets

**nevo** · 17-06-2010,09:20 AM

Use dettol in an aerosol,so its atomised and will get sucked in,also change the pollen filter.

**kite** · 17-06-2010,01:49 PM

You can get an aircon cleaner from Halfords.
Instructions are on the tin......

**toptek** · 18-06-2010,11:15 AM

thanks everyone for hints and tips, but i bought this can of wurth coolius but the destructions on the can are wurth-less

hohoho, sorry. it has on the can a picture of what looks like a heater matrix, with picture of 'germs' on the matrix? think i'll try new filter and spray into inlet, but also says do not have heating or aircon running, i dunno germans, quality and complicated all rolled into one

**evansj1** · 18-06-2010,11:46 AM

wow, just logged on to pose the same question and this ones top of the tree!!
My fiancee's is a bit whiffy....aircon that is!
Could someone just point out where the air intake is for the spray/disinfectant. Would be most appreciated, thanks!
Jase

**nevo** · 18-06-2010,01:40 PM

Pop open the bonnet,at the back of the engine bay there is a plastic panel covering the battery just in front of the wipers peel off the rubber strip that goes across to each wing,lift out the panel and on the righthand side you'll see the pollen filter,undo the clips and lift out the cover and filter,switch air con to lo to get the fan blowing through the vents,then spray the aerosol in the pollen filter housing,repeat a few times.If you wanna be a real cheapskate you can clean and disinfect the old pollen filter ,make sure you dry it first before reuse.

**RicDennis** · 28-06-2010,07:48 AM

what are you guys spraying into the pollen filter housing?!

as mentioned in another post i used the stuff you set off inside the car with the aircon on full whack and let it do its stuff - which it did for a few hours and now I have a smelly car again!

I want to try this one where you spray something into the housing. but what do I spray in there?!

**nevo** · 28-06-2010,01:39 PM

Try dettol in an aerosol,one thats got a freshner as well,like "mountain breeze"put the air con on full and draw it all in through the pollen filter,you need to get it to the evapourator,inside thats were the bugs are growing,also change the filter.

**RicDennis** · 28-06-2010,01:53 PM

Originally Posted by nevo

Try dettol in an aerosol,one thats got a freshner as well,like "mountain breeze"put the air con on full and draw it all in through the pollen filter,you need to get it to the evapourator,inside thats were the bugs are growing,also change the filter.

I will try this...had a new pollen filter at the weekend for the service!

going to do a 'big shop' tonight so Dettol is on the list!