Air con bombs

Skilid · 23 Nov 2015 at 12:36

Hi all,

I have used air con bombs (aerosol can) in my car a few times and it works a treat. A friend of mine has a car with no air con and I wonder if it would help get rid of the awful smell coming from her air vents? I've checked and there is nothing dead or anything in there.

Cheers!

Terminal_Boy · 23 Nov 2015 at 12:39

Damp/mouldy polen filter?

Was a regular occurrence on my old Vectra C.

Skilid · 23 Nov 2015 at 12:45

I don't think her car has a pollen filter.

It's an '05 Hyundai Getz 1.1

i5aces · 23 Nov 2015 at 12:46

I use detol antibacterial spray in my cars, remove the pollen filter turn blowers on full and spray through.
works a treat.
also works on air con systems you just have to use the recirculate button

bledd · 23 Nov 2015 at 13:07

Before getting one of these, do the following..

Replace pollen filter. If not done once a year or so, it will be stinking dirty.

Give the inside of the car a good clean, along with the car mats and go for a long drive with the windows open.

Jono · 23 Nov 2015 at 13:10

Are pollen filters generally easy to get at? Mine was serviced about 5 months ago. It doesn't smell but a garage wanted to charge me £25 when I got my MOT to do something very similar sounding. Seemed expensive so I didn't bother.

Janesy B · 23 Nov 2015 at 13:21

Seeing as the filter is probably around £15, £10 to fit it doesn't really seem that extortionate.

Terminal_Boy · 23 Nov 2015 at 13:27

EliotG said:
I don't think her car has a pollen filter.

It's an '05 Hyundai Getz 1.1

If it has factory fitted air-conditioning fitted, it has a pollen/cabin filter.

Register here:

http://www.hyundai-forums.com/forum.php

Skilid · 23 Nov 2015 at 13:39

It does not have air con. It does not have a pollen filter.

I'm just wondering if one of these things would have any effect taking the above into account.

i5aces · 23 Nov 2015 at 14:31

I have never know a car not to have a pollen filter.
as the air comes from outside the car the risk of dust / sand being blown into the drivers eyes would be to big.

Kuros · 23 Nov 2015 at 14:46

My Hyundai i10 has the pollen filter situated behind the glove box, simple procedure to take out and get to.

Given that they are based on a similar chassis, I would expect the getz to be in the rough same area,.

Entai · 23 Nov 2015 at 15:32

i5aces said:
I have never know a car not to have a pollen filter.
as the air comes from outside the car the risk of dust / sand being blown into the drivers eyes would be to big.

Virtually 99% of all vehicles built pre the mid eighties, never had any cabin/pollen filters in them.

Saab started it off in about 1987 with a very basic filter in their 9000.

Then they started to become widely available from around 1989 in most cars built in Germany.

The rest of mainland Europe, the far east and other manufactures followed suit after, in the early nineties.

In 1991 the German VDA drafted a standardization for Cabin filters so that they all had to meet certain criteria, and filter to a common particle size.

bledd · 23 Nov 2015 at 15:43

Jono said:
Are pollen filters generally easy to get at? Mine was serviced about 5 months ago. It doesn't smell but a garage wanted to charge me £25 when I got my MOT to do something very similar sounding. Seemed expensive so I didn't bother.

Find the part on eurocarparts or carparts4less, probably a couple of quid.

Now Google/Youtube 'carMake/Model pollen filter' or 'cabin filter'

All the ones I've replaced were in the glovebox and you could access them in under one minute with no tools. Quicker than getting a mac10

BigT · 23 Nov 2015 at 16:01

Entai said:
Virtually 99% of all vehicles built pre the mid eighties, never had any cabin/pollen filters in them.

I remember those days. Leaves and all sorts blowing through the vents was a common occurrence.

dacads · 23 Nov 2015 at 16:18

BigT said:
I remember those days. Leaves and all sorts blowing through the vents was a common occurrence.

Must have been a treat

iaind · 23 Nov 2015 at 16:46

This stuff gets sprayed directly into the vents and into the inlet on the outside

http://www.eurocarparts.com/mobile/...leaners/air-con-cleaner/?NOR2897300&0&cc5_101

I used the "one shot" version of that which is the grenade and it was EXCELLENT - my car stank of dog when I got it and not even a whiff after changing the filter and running that through. The spray thing is the same stuff just more manually applied which might work better.

Miles cheaper than the cans of comma stuff that halfords sell too

Orionaut · 23 Nov 2015 at 17:02

Jono said:
Are pollen filters generally easy to get at? Mine was serviced about 5 months ago. It doesn't smell but a garage wanted to charge me £25 when I got my MOT to do something very similar sounding. Seemed expensive so I didn't bother.

Sometimes they are easy, sometimes the design/layout is clearly the product of a deranged soul which has been expelled from the Ninth Circle of Hell for being altogether too evil, in order to go and work for a motor manufacturer somewhere!

Mann ones generally come with instructions! (Also available from the Mann website)

If there is a choice between charcoal ones and non-charcoal I generally go for the former (With Mann part numbers this is CUK vs CU prefix)

sneakypenguin · 27 Nov 2015 at 22:58

Terminal_Boy said:
Damp/mouldy polen filter?

Was a regular occurrence on my old Vectra C.

Does sound like this. You'll probably find the seal around the filter box is perishing.

Orionaut said:
Sometimes they are easy, sometimes the design/layout is clearly the product of a deranged soul which has been expelled from the Ninth Circle of Hell for being altogether too evil, in order to go and work for a motor manufacturer somewhere!

Mann ones generally come with instructions! (Also available from the Mann website)

If there is a choice between charcoal ones and non-charcoal I generally go for the former (With Mann part numbers this is CUK vs CU prefix)

Completely agree. Most the cars I've had have been a ball ache to change, my previous one was under the glove box but you virtually had to do a head stand to see what you were doing, then the chiropractor bills!

snapdragon69 · 27 Nov 2015 at 23:23

How many times does the OP need to say the doesn't have A/C or a filter?
If it had a filter, it may be like this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kJ9YDUmLFoU

Moeks · 28 Nov 2015 at 16:37

A quick search does indeed seem to suggest that the Getz without aircon does not have a pollen filter as the op said! ...wow '90s Vauxhalls had these, basic ones. I found it hard to believe it wouldn't have one aswell, aircon or not.