Question: do you not run the ac after the 1st step? On other cleaning products (Kool It, AC Pro) you run the ac on low for about 5 minutes after having the cleaner up there for about 15 minutes. Is that not part of the process for this particular product?
Hey man, i have been looking for this 24/7 and i simply can't find any of this. I'm from Sweden and here i can't find something like this either... Do you know where i can order this set?
DO YOU WORK FOR TOYOTA? DID YOU GET THE TOYOTA PRODUCT FREE IN ORDER TO DO THIS VIDEO? WHY SHOULD I PAY MORE THAN $4 FOR A CAN OF FOAMING CLEANER? MY 2004 CHEVY MALIBU NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH ODORS IN THE A/C OR HEAT? WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN WITH HONDA AND TOYOTA?
I do not. I did not. Because it’s a great product that works. This isn’t something that happens to Honda and Toyota exclusively and it’s more common on cars with automatic climate control. A change in habit can prevent this issue all together. A few miles before getting to your destination turn off your AC and recirculate mode in order to dry out the evaporator housing and you’ll prevent this from happening in the first place.
Found the part number for the treatment kit online and called the parts department of the dealership I bought my Toyota from to ask if they had it in stock and for how much so I could come and pick it up right away. Instead was given a lecture about how I'm probably not qualified to do the work using this product on my own and should instead bring the vehicle into the service department and pay a $200 diagnostic fee for them to test for AC odor and then another several hundred dollars more and hours in time for the service department to do the treatment kit work themselves for me. I hung up the phone, drove to another Toyota dealer, gave them the code at their parts desk and they handed me the kit right away and I went home and did the treatment myself after watching videos like this and others on RU-vid thoroughly explaining how to do the job.
Great video!! Super informative and thorough!! The way he explains the entire process and remedy makes this video one the best ones, if not the best, for fixing that musty/mildew smell. Bravo!!
Best video I've seen addressing this issue. I have a 2019 Ram 3500. The dealership wanted to take a more aggressive approach; $$$. I've done the Lysol technique which made a difference. Your method makes perfect sense I will do sooner than later. Thanks.
Great Video. I have been suffering from a mildew mouse smell in my toyota for 6 months now. I completely cleaned the interior of the car and could not get rid of the smell. I hope this works. Also get those keys out of your pocket while working cars. I had my keys in my pocket while working under the hood and the vehicle started. Lucky I did not have my hands near the fan or engine belts. Keep making the videos.
Great video. Ozone treatment works great as well. I don’t often do it but every once in a while I’ll stick the ozone machine inside the car and let it do it’s thing. Works like a charm
I have the kit for a year now but too lazy to do it. Yeah, smells like gym socks sometimes, not always, only when really humid. The good news is the bottles are on my bench now, 😂. Getting it done in couple of days.
Thank you for showing the proper way of doing this. The cabin spray and leave the fan inside the car cabin just don’t clean the unit like your method. A quick tip to prevent the mouldy smell coming back: When using your AC during driving, before you switch car off, turn your AC off and only have the fans blowing on fastest setting (open cabin vent to let fresh air from outside). Do this for about 5-10 minutes. To speed up the process you can set temperature setting to maximum hot. This will dry out any condensation inside the ducts and the cabin radiator unit. Main reason for mouldy smell is mould starts to grow in damp places where constant moisture is present. Usually when the AC is turned off after use, the cold ducts and radiator unit will form moisture inside (same like when you take out a cold drink out of a fridge and leave it outside, it forms water on outside of the drink). Hope this tip makes sense. I’ve been doing this in my car and never had any bad smell issues.
I used this kit on my 2008 Honda Ridgeline I bought with 266,000 miles on it and had been minimally used for the last 5 years parked in a yard in South Georgia. Haven’t smelled anything since. It is my daily driver now at 274,000 and the smell has never returned.
I have been getting bad odor at times from the AC when i select outside air to come in instead of circulating cabin air. And this has been happening since i bought the car brand new a year ago. Its not always but some days when its hot i get a bad smell from the ac. Anyone having similar issue?
I haven’t done my 2021 Camry yet, as it’s garage kept and still smells like a new car. I usually do this on an as needed basis, meaning if I have an odor, I do it. No reason to do this on a regular Or scheduled basis
I don't understand what loading a bunch of cleaner into the bottom of a heater box will do ? How does coating the bottom of a heater box get the cleaner into the fins of the evaporator ?
@@SEsGarage I guess that answers my question. I'm going to do it on my mom cavalier. Hers is getting a bit musty. I'll probably do it on my cars too as preventive maintenance.
I did this on my Sienna and it worked very well. My Toyota dealer charged me 500 usd for blower removal and duct cleaning after a mouse nest was built on the cabin filter, but terrible odors persisted and they did not know about this product. I bought the pair of aerosol cans on the link for about 37 usd. On the Sienna there is a separate evaporator behind the louvered door in the rear passenger side fender space where the tire jack is stored. One removes the jack. The drainage tube is easily located and cannulated under the fender just above the exhaust pipe. On step two one sprays the second half of the deodorant up and outside toward the blower intake which you cannot directly see. If you have a very bad situation you might need to buy two sets of cans for the fore and aft units but I did well guestimating half of each can used and reserving it the rear. I owe Steve my life! The howls from my 5 grandchildren when I turned on the a/c returning from the beach in August could have been those of the angry pirates locked below decks in movie, Treasure Island. And you know they will get loose. The eldest granddaughter Eleanor had the contorted, angry face of Long John Silver ready to get grandad with a cutlass.
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It's strange that this kit's instructions say to keep AC off but the AC pro kit for vent and duct cleaning says to keep the AC on while spraying it on the vents outside the car. But thank you for such a detailed vid. I am gonna buy this or a similar product and follow this vid !
I thought your supposed to run it on recirculate. 10-15 min. I use Lube guard Kool it. $20 I think. I also put it in the rear evaporator. Press the a/c of bottom in the car!
some people spray the foam into the vents from inside the car and through the cabin air filter area or fan motor, is that method effective and legit too? What is the difference in two methods? I guess in this one you are targetting the evaporator cleaning.
I live on a ranch & blower noise led me to open up my cabin air filter and found rats nest, heavy poo/pee, debris and chewed right through my filter a nested in my blower/fan. Clean but still smells bad still and headaches as if I did nothing. I didn't clean engine bay vent that your video shows, there are traces of poo under the hood. Going to clean that, and try evaporator shown in your video. Do you think i should "foam" the vents as well? I'm afraid mice pissed throughout my vent system.
is it normal for foam to drip slowly? i don't get any fluid coming out like all these youtube videos, but when i did mine, it was just small chunks of foam dripping out, but i end up with the same amount of liquid in the catch pan as you guys
I also have 2 other problems i have a white or grey film on the front windshield that I am not able to remove. I tried replacing both wipers and I used Invisible glass, Windex and Dish washing liquid and still am not able to get rid of the white or grey film in the windshield. I also noticed an outline on the windshield that looks like left over rock salt from a snow storm on the right corner of the windshield that I could not remove either. Furthermore the previous said the brakes were done front and back yet I hear a noise that sounds like the wear indicator. Why is this happening. There is no evidence of rust on the rotors. Is there a sticking caliper?
I was able to remove the cabin filter without a problem with the air bags deploying but the perfume smell in the vents and in the car could not be removed. I tried spraying Lysol and that was overpowering and did not do anything. Although I did not spray half the can. I only sprayed a little to see how it smelled after.
What if the mold/mildew is somewhere else in the vehicle? I think my HVAC system is OK ... It's turned completely off when I get in in the morning, and I immediately smell the mustiness, and my eyes start to water, etc. BTW, I own a 2001 Park Avenue, and stupid GM put the cabin filter in the most inaccessible spot they could think of. A friend of mine who works on cars hurt his back trying to get it out. I've left it out, and don't plan on putting another one in. (Look it up sometime if you want a good laugh, to see what is involved in changing one!) I think the mold or mildew might be in the trunk or behind/under the back seat, or maybe in the carpeting (although the carpets are pretty clean). Good video, I've seen several like this recommending the expanding foam treatment. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to try it, even if the mold I'm experiencing might be elsewhere.
Hi, nice video, does anybody know if that first cleaner (bigger bottle, applied from drain hose end) does actually clean dust from evaporator? Have mk4 golf but that evaporator is half clogged up with dust and we are not able to get into that half because there basically isnt room for compressed air etc, where we could we cleaned it. Thanks
The fluid collected wasn't very dirty. I'm wondering where all the plant and rat nest debris, grit, rat droppings, etc, settle if you don't open up blower and ducts. Maybe a high power blower at the cabin filter or super strong vacuum could pull settled debris through from vent side, then blower side, to keep from forcing junk into condenser. Once debris is soaked, it's not gonna pass through vents.
My wife's car, the drain is above a heat shield for a part of the exhaust, mid car. Have to remove a section of exhaust, to remove the shield to get to the drain. Absolutely BS design.
How do you know which portion of the vent / grill under the hood to spray ? In the video, it looked like only the left/passenger side of the grill was sprayed.
SHOULD THE BATTERY BE DISCONNECTED BEFORE REMOVING THE GLOVE COMPARTMENT DOOR IN ORDER TO REMOVE THE CABIN FILTER SO THAT THE AIR BAGS DONT ACCIDENTALLY DEPLOY?
IT DOESN'T HURT ANYTHING TO DISCONNECT THE BATTERY SO IF YOU WANT THAT EXTRA BIT OF SAFETY GO FOR IT. IN REALITY THERE'S A GREATER PROBABILITY OF A BOLTZMAN BRAIN APPEARING THAN AN AIRBAG GOING OFF WHILE REMOVING THE GLOVE COMPANTMENT DOOR.
Quick question I had a car sit for yearish and had mice all in the hvac box would you reccomend doing this a few times or pull it all apart and clean it? They did have a nest in with the blower motor and im kinda stumped now as its a process and a half pulling it all
I’d drop the blower motor and clean it out as best you can! Then run this cleaner. They almost never make it all the way into the HVAC system the blower motor/filter housing is usually where they nest. They’d have to chew through the fan to get into the evaporator housing
@@SEsGarage gotcha thank you I was just curious, I have the dash pulled to put a new one in and there was some dropping in the defrost part going in from up top to, I put a post in one of the forum pages for it to and people were saying to pull it but would like to try and save some time if possible before doing so
You are probably assuming that the Evaporator is at the bottom of the ducts, in cars w/ an Evaporator mounted way up this procedure might not be good. Yes, it would clean the drain tube.
Thanks, makes sense. I just got my kit in the mail a couple days ago, and I'm in the garage right now having applied this treatment. Hope it works for me!
They’re great for interior odors, but won’t do much for a moldy evaporator core. I have several videos featuring an ozone machine on used cars that we reconditioned to sell
