Whenever I turn on my car, and turn on the A/C, I get this stale smell coming out of the A/C vent..anyone know what's the best way to get rid of this? any instruction on how to flush or clean the vents? I remember on my TL when I had it, sometimes water from rain stays in the vents above my hood, and I usually let the heat run at full blast for like 20 minutes....anything suggestion on the Z?
thanX

 

Buy a new cabin filter, its real cheap from auto parts stores.

 

anybody know where the cabin filter is in the Z?

 

anyone ever used them clorox deorizer thinggy?q

 

anyone ever used them clorox deorizer thinggy?q

 

anyone ever used them clorox deorizer thinggy?q

 

I hope its not Mildew try running your a/c with fresh air instead of recycle for a few days

 

yeah my murano does that too.

 

the z doesnt have a cabin filter i thought?

 

I do run my car with fresh air at all time...my last car, I was told it was mildew, and usually I can ran my heater at full blast for about 20 minutes and it went away....but i've tried it with this car and still comes back...and I live in Houston, and we haven't had rain in forever, plus the high heat and dry air right now, that mildew should dry up and die on it's own

 

aite..i just called my buddy at Nissan and he said get the A/C Deodorizer and spray it into the intake vent at the bottom floor underneath the driver's side dash and run recycle model at full blast and it should kill the mildew and smell goes away in a few days....i'll try that out and let ya know...

 

I think all AC's do this after a while. As far as I know, it's just getting rid of stale air from the last use. But if they sell a deodorizer for it...sweet.

 

that too. how much was the spray ?

 

I just asked the guy from my service department at my work and he said they do do an A/C flush, which is $99 here.....but I was told by my buddy from Nissan that you can get an A/C deodorizer from Autozone or wherever for cheaper...

 

Try spraying an entire can of Lysol into the intake vents while running the A/C and then the heater and switch between the low and high vents so you get all of them. Just be careful not to be sitting in the car while someone sprays the vents .....unless you like a face full of lysol

If that doesn't work then you can look at the more expensive methods

 

yah..that's what I'm planning to do...i heard clorox is proven (in a recent study) much more powerful at killing germs/mildew than lysol....they just came out with a deodorizer, so I'ma try that out and i'll let ya know....

 

i just called guy from Autozone and they do have the A/c deodorizer spray, supposedly it doesn't masked the smell or odor, but instead, it removes odors and kills mold, mildew and germs....

 

Sounds like you need to change the freon

 

Yeah but my murano does it with only 9000 on the odometer. It started a couple of months ago.

 

does it rain a lot or have you been in the rain?