Smell from a/c help!!

[Dads07sport4R]

Have a funky smell coming from ac vents. Anyone have any remedys or used products to recomend?? Wife won't drive/be in truck until gone. Happy wife-happy life.

 

[lcbjr77]

When's the last time you changed the in cabin filter?

 

[Low-Tek]

Have a funky smell coming from ac vents. Anyone have any remedys or used products to recomend?? Wife won't drive/be in truck until gone. Happy wife-happy life.

Could be several things. As the other poster suggested, change the cabin air filter, if not done recently, or at least check it. Sometimes those filters get wet, and start to mildew.

You could also have mold or mildew in your AC tubing. You might want to start her up, and spray a generous amount of lysol into your intake. Switch to each setting of your AC, (floor, defrost, etc) and run on high for a while. Do the same on heat. Then switch to outside air and drive around with each setting on high as well. That may run some of the smell out and the lysol should kill some of the mildew or mold spores if thats causing it. Of course it could be lots of other things too, clogged up lines, etc. Some might recommend flushing your system as well.

 

[Dads07sport4R]

When's the last time you changed the in cabin filter?

It was changed 10k Miles ago.

 

[CXS]

10k is plenty time for a critter to crawl in and die. It's the starting place. I found using s high pressure air hose id a great way to "wash" years of accumulated junk too.

 

[V8Man]

Check it to see if Mickey & Minnie have moved in.

 

[Nostromo]

As Low-Tek commented could be a clogged condensation drain line. Happened to me once. Smells like a front load washer after mold sets up. Find the drain tube under the vehicle and stick a stiff tie-wrap up it. If water gushes out, viola.

 

[Dads07sport4R]

Cabin filter is fine. I guess I will try Lysol and/air in the vents next. Does anyone know where the drain tube is underneath we the truck?

 

[mizak82]

Spray a bottle of Lysol under the hood vents. with the Ac on high and not recirculating sucks it right in the system


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[AKmoney]

Get some of this stuff:

Quest/Odor eliminator OE-1- Read1Reviews onQuest #OE-1

It's a foam that you spray up into the evaporator drain tube that cleans off the coils. Follow it up by spraying a bunch of Lysol into the intake. That should take care of the weird smells for several months.

 

[iBison]

Had a car one time that would have a moldy smell after the AC was used. Tried the lysol and that didn't help. What I found that "fixed" the problem was when I used the air I would turn it off a few blocks before I got where I was going. I don't know if it dried it out or what but it worked.