AirCon Evaporator Clean
Posted: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 6:34 +0000
Ok so my aircon was smelling a bit and I could not workout why, it didnt matter if it was on recirc or fresh it would still smell for the first 30sec then disappear. I figured its got to be a dirty filter id i word searched "cabin filter" on here to find the aircon mod thread.
Hoping that all I had to do is change the filter I poped the glove box off only to find the blank panel and non existent filter.
Thinking what the heck could be smelling, my mind turned to the evaporator thinking there has got to be crap caught in the fins because of the lack of the filter which then lead to how the heck am i going to clean the evaporator.
Google being my friend, I found a thread on Toyotanation of the very same issue, 12 pages quickly turned into shit.... with no definitive solution...
From what i can make of it the smell is caused by bacteria/mold growing in the system and particularly on the evaporator core.. given there is no filter there would be a great deal of dust in there also..
So i need a product that is going to break down dust and mold to spray into the system, and then I'd like to flush it out which shouldn't be a problem given the condensate drain.
Question is, Has anyone been through this already, if not does anyone know of a product to do the above?
This is the product suggested on toyotanation, but i don't think its available in oz
http://www.ac-evaporator-cleaner.com/fr ... -ackit.htm
Marco...
Hoping that all I had to do is change the filter I poped the glove box off only to find the blank panel and non existent filter.
Thinking what the heck could be smelling, my mind turned to the evaporator thinking there has got to be crap caught in the fins because of the lack of the filter which then lead to how the heck am i going to clean the evaporator.
Google being my friend, I found a thread on Toyotanation of the very same issue, 12 pages quickly turned into shit.... with no definitive solution...
From what i can make of it the smell is caused by bacteria/mold growing in the system and particularly on the evaporator core.. given there is no filter there would be a great deal of dust in there also..
So i need a product that is going to break down dust and mold to spray into the system, and then I'd like to flush it out which shouldn't be a problem given the condensate drain.
Question is, Has anyone been through this already, if not does anyone know of a product to do the above?
This is the product suggested on toyotanation, but i don't think its available in oz
http://www.ac-evaporator-cleaner.com/fr ... -ackit.htm
Marco...