Bad Aircon Smell

[androo]

Hey guys, you can buy a can of the aircon cleaners at Supercheap, Repco, etc. They're about $12-$15 each and it's the same process as what Honda does (and charges you $50-$80). My mum went to service the Jazz and it had this issue and they charged us $80. Later on my friend who works for a dealer for VW and told me about the can and what they do.

[tron07]

The air cond cleaner thingy, is it you press and it release the entire content in the car with the car and air cond running, then let the car air cond clear the mist?

what is this compressor everyone speaks of

[trism]

Yeah but you put it on the passenger floor and aim it up under/behind the glove box. This is where the inlet is for when you have it set on recirculate. So it'll get sucked straight up into the vent system

Sent from my custard cannon like Peter North.

[SPQR]

I don't suppose anyone smokes in their cars anymore.

No way never. I think it would make it much harder to sell your car if it had a lingering smoke smell. You as a smoker get used to it but others notice it immediately.

Hmmmm. Maybe there should be mandatory disclosure legislation on the "smoked-in" status of a car before it can be sold: So that a potential purchaser of a used car can then choose whether to proceed and purchase a "smoked-in" car. It could be by statutory declaration with a penalty like a mandatory refund, a humble apology and compensation of $10,000 should it be discovered after purchase that the car had been "smoked-in" after all.

It reminds me of a time I bought a well-detailed car; but after two weeks, the chemical odours wore out and the foul stench of a dying-man's breath blasted out of the air vents instead.

There might be side benefits like parents not smoking in their cars with children present because of the reduced resale value of their car; not because they are killing their kids.

[trism]

pfft, 95% of smokers smoke in their cars

[SPQR]

pfft, 95% of smokers smoke in their cars

Makes one want to only buy new cars!