How To: HVAC Cleaning

[thisaznboi88]

Soo have you ever turned on the A/C , heat, or just air and you get a big whiff of WTF man, my car smells like the men gym.... kinda smell then this is the product for you. If you ran over a skunk and its not stuck in your A/C system. All I can say is gl? trade in the car? i ono

Well if you do this is what you need to do.

Get a bottle of A/C and heater odor remover 6-10 bucks

A new cabin filter. (carbon activated for best results)


First off you will need to locate your cabin filter. Its behind the glove box.

First you will need to remove all the stuff in the glove box, then release the arm on the right side of the box, afterwards squeeze the box together and it should fall down. The filter is inside of that box with the arrow point out the air flow going down.



After you found it get your bottle of A/C odor remover and fine the external air vents. It is located outside near the driver side wipers. What you do is turn on the A/C full blast and make sure it is getting the external air. Then spray baby spray until 1/3 of the bottle is used. Make sure all your windows are down and run it for 2 mins



Next you will turn off the A/C completely and spray the a/c odor remover into the vents (used 1/3) and in then go back to your filter box and out it up and unload in there also. Let it sit for 1 min. Then turn on the A/C full blast again but this time use the circulation and continue spaying  whatever is left into the internal cabin vent (vent on top of filter).


Let it run for 5- 10 mins.

Change air filter because it now has all the dead mold and bacteria in it. Take a shower after to make sure you don't bring any of those nasty nasty into bed ^^.

Afterwards enjoy your fresh smelling car.

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[fabulous010]

kool. my ac stinks. (filter does need replacing)

[Mike]

I might have to give this a try to get ride of my nasty transmission fluid smell.

[timot_one]

Nice write up.

[thisaznboi88]

Nice write up.

No problem bro. Just sharing the love. Also amazon has the carbon activated filter for 15 + 3 mail in rebate so it might be worth it instead of going to honda and getting theirs for 50.

[JDMJNKY]

Damn this is a great post!

[Mike]

Sticky 

[timot_one]

Also amazon has the carbon activated filter for 15 + 3 mail in rebate so it might be worth it instead of going to honda and getting theirs for 50.

I've gotten the cabin air filters from Amazon and found them on eBay for about $9-10.  These were just the regular paper filters though.  I checked the price for the cabin air filter from honda and list price is only $29.  If a dealership was going to charge you $50, their mark up was ridiculous.

[thisaznboi88]

this is the one I got. They jacked up the price after I bought it....

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010E00T6/ref=oss_product

[v6sicksspeed]

^ you cant go wrong with FRAM filters.  this is a great write up, might have to give it a whirl this summer.  im definitely starting to get das funk.

[timot_one]

I'm sure their air filters are pretty good, but their oil filters leave much to be desired.  I'd stay away from their oil filters since there are plenty of problems. 

[Jeff Likes Bagels]

When I swapped my filter out, I just went with the NAPA brand. It was like $20.

[thisaznboi88]

I'm sure their air filters are pretty good, but their oil filters leave much to be desired.  I'd stay away from their oil filters since there are plenty of problems.  

Yeah there oil filter is iffy. The air filter is good stuff. It's made by honeywell which makes hepa filter for hospitals.

Thanks for changing the title also. I wasn't too sure what to call it.

[timot_one]

I just wanted to clean it up to match the titles of the other "how to" threads.

[mitchigan]

Thx for the write up, I used it to guide me today while I cleaned out my HVAC. the weather here is getting colder and my heater was blowing some pretty smelly stuff.