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AC mildew smell

posted by  KlausC on  Tue Sep 8 09:09 CST 2009
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The problem is that the evaporator is wet when you turn off the car and the AC was being used. New cars have a timer/relay to run the cabin fan after the car has been used in order to dry off the evap.
You might want to try turning off the AC for the last mile of your trips. The extra 2 minutes of air blowing over the warming evaporator should help.

Spraying Lysol in the air intake, with the filter out, should help so long as the fan is running and the AC is switched on, but engine not running. Let the lysol sit for at least 15 minutes before starting the engine back up.

You cannot spray foam into the evap, there is no access to it. Use an insecticide? No, that won't work either.

Klaus
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