Clean your car air vents from Mold & Odor for $4 - Don't pay $80.00 per hour
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- Let's go step by step on how to eliminate the foul moldy odor in your car air vents.
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Yes, if your cabin air filter is full of debris, replace it then, spray the lysol or disinfectant into the outside "air intake" while
set to AC and fan is on full blast, and settings are set to allow "outside air" in the cabin but NOT set to recirculate. Spray
ample amount of disinfectant into the intake cowl located outside, below the windshield. This should kill mold and mildew
in the entire AC unit and ductwork. The AC will cool better and faster, smell better, and mold and mildew is eliminated.
Dude you are a genius. Is 2023 with inflation the bottle is worth $ 6.00 and the job $150.00. It worked like magic I've never done this before, so I went to Costco and bought the 4 pack Lysol I did for my car, my wife's SUV and my daughter's car.
thank you for the instructions. a regular person who doesnt work on cars doesnt know this. I appreciate this tremendously.
I’m glad to hear! Have fun and be safe
Thank you. You demonstrated so well. On my way to do this.
I watched scotty Kilmer on this
and the way he did it definitely worked on my car.. nothing but fresh air . Keep in mind it takes a few days for the LYSOl to go away till your only getting fresh air again.
What did Scotty do?
@@phackqu he sprayed the LYSO from the outside vent below the front windshield while you leave all windows down and the A/C on full max..
This method will refresh the vents and cabin but so not solve the problem. The AC evaporator and lines must be cleaned out. The correct way is using a proper cleaner with an attached cleaning tube that is inserted through the AC drain line. The cleaner is sprayed upthrough the drain line back to the evaporator. The cleaner will break up and dissolve the moldy deposits and release them through the AC drain once the cleaning tube is removed.
Air conditioning is a closed system. Mold doesn't get into the AC lines where the refrigerant is. Mold can get into the heat exchange coils where the cold refrigerant passes through to cool metal fins. But when you blow lysol through the vents, the lysol would get circulated through those metal fins.
For easy access to the blower motor fan like yours , Use a professional hvac (a/c) condenser coil self rinsing foam spray after the lysol shot , Try to find one that comes with a small hose attachment for better coverage spraying , For those of you that can't get to the fan/ evaporator/ heater core easily you can locate your condensation drip line normally on the fire wall under the hood , Turn your a/c on low and look for the wet spot under the car to get an idea of the location, Put your windows down , stick the foam spray hose as far as possible & use the entire can , Now your bacteria/ mold is gone and the evaporator plus Heater core is clean with a more efficient working system for atleast a year, You can find the coil cleaning foam spray in H.D or Lowes or possibly a hardware store . Be safe
I have improved the presented methodogy of using this product by adding a long hose and spraying it under pressure directly into a/c coil from both in and out sides. I have swamped the coil in it and kept a/c running for longer time.
This stuff helped to remove a musty smell just for few days. It temporary kills an odor but not that mold as pro foams do.
May work for little issue but not for serious one.
Thank you. My truck broke down for a hot minute and somehow some mice made a nest above my blower motor. No matter what I did I couldn't get rid of the mice smell. I saw videos of people just spraying the vents from the hood, but that never worked. Again, thank you!
@@samanthalamere7412 sorry to hear about the mice. I’m glad it worked out for you.
Change your cabin filter and then put baking soda in a container with holes in the lid. Hide it under your seat or in a cubby. All odors will be gone in a few days... and it lasts over a year.
I like your way sound about right thanks 🙏🏼
the odors might be gone but it doesn't kill the bacteria.
Think about the baking soda box for a refrigerator. The equivalent size for a car would be a large sized box under the driver or passenger seat. Not clear on the expiration term of use, but baking soda becomes inactive at some point.
You can actually buy a cabin filter with charcoal and baking soda in it. I just installed one in my car. They are more expensive but they do more than a regular filter.
97 dodge ram and my 2011 silverado don't come with canin air filters. They have retro fit kits I'll probably add later.
Thanks for sharing. I sprayed that product through the front last year and the moldy smell came back this year. I learned to use foam applied through the air conditioning draining hose to target the evaporator and the foam turned into liquid rinsing and cleaning because the liquid drained down dark and the cabin smells really fresh. I used the kool that includes a hose which you can re use because it also fits on a foam can to clean the AC sold at Home D for about 6 dollars. Yes you have to get under the car, but I really like that it rinses the dark mold in the evaporator.
Do you mind sharing which product you used that fit the kool it hose?
@@kevinoclips6148 At HOME DEPOT
AIR CONDITIONER
SPRAY COIL
Foaming
Cleaner
Would love to see a video on this. Thank you for the info.
@@alonabnice1752 I learned from him. I didn’t inject disinfectant, but I related to the rest of the procedure
@@alonabnice1752 I learned from him in this video ruclips.net/video/-1DT4BIAEe0/видео.html
Did a very nice job... One pro tip.. Use 2 cans. 1st can, full speed ventilation... 2nd can, minimum speed. Cheers!
That's a great idea and it works. I found out, through a mechanic because I am not smart enough to figure it out on my own...SMH, to leave the recirculation button off and the fresh air setting on when your car is parked. That let's the condenser dry out after you have been driving it with the a/c on.
My nerves must be bad. When you slapped that Lysol up there I jumped 😂
LOL I thought I was the only one that did that It scared the bejeves out of me!!!
@@TishMclain 😂😂😂
Same here😂😂
Yea, that pic added in made me jump to high hell lmfao. Woke me right on up but this does take care of the smell and need to get to the root cause for sure later down the road.
So did I lol
At Tesla we use Kool it. Is like 10$ a can and it’s made specifically for HVAC cleaning. It’s also electric car safe.
Interesting
You saved me. Helping a friend with a Mustang that did run in 6 years and stank.. Did this and its amazing. Thanks for posting.
Is it back
Worked for me. Been a week and a half, and saved my date.
An old wise car salesman told me to push the fresh air vent button, next to the re-circulation button. It will dry out all of the "stuff". Do this every night or when the system smells funky. A shot a some kinda spray before all this when the car fan is on will probably do even more good. I was in disbelief but it works for me.
Useful tips. But beware of fire hazard when dealing with flammable spray nearby electrical blower circuit
is this safe
What can happen ? Everyony spraying dettol and lyson in the vents and even if u spray directly into the evap , its made to be water proof
Realistically, this will only mask the odor. Lysol spray won’t kill any organic mold or mildew. It might kill a little on surface contact but your just feeding the mildew and odor so that after the fragrance wears off, it’s going to stink even worse.
@@amgil475 nothing can happen
@@CZ-57 thanks
There are multiple reasons of causing bad smells in your car. It could be AC on or off. Intake or circulation. There are 4 or more possible air route that could have that smell. Just doing the cabin filter might not solve your problem.
You have to remember to first change the cabin air filter after several months or yearly, then run the A/C on full, spray the Lysol into the vents, run it on RECYCLE Air mode for several minutes, and then allow the cold recycled air to work itself into the A/C unit itself. Again this is a temporary fix, and unable to get cigar or cigarette smell out of any car.
Get the family dollar smoke spray remover for the household, I sprayed it inside on my hubby's hummer and it worked as for the seats I would not know, hubby's hummer has leather seats not fabric ones
Agreed there is a machine you can rent or buy you basically run the machine through the vents and that does remove everything I've seen a lot of detailers using it
@@ThaRealAbMajor thank you, that's the machine I was referring to
Iyk, this advice came from Scotty Kilmer
@@ThaRealAbMajor but does it go through the hvac system vents? because when you use lysol or spray they tell you to have the air come from outside, not recirculate
I did it a few times and it helps, but a foam condenser cleaner does a more thorough job for anyone who wants to go to the next level. Good tips here though!
The best way still is use a flush and reconditioning A/C unit cleaner, but this requires one to lift up the car to locate the drainage plug for A/C water condensation. However, some of these A/C cleaners are also quite expensive on the market.
If your in the millionaires lifestyle bracket , changing a car every three years for new one is the best but this gets quite expensive.
🤣😂🤣😂
He's trying to save us money and here u come about changing car every 3 yrs😒😒
I have in-laws that are health food crazy. Their diet of pinto beans, black beans , red beans has caused them to lose tons of weight but now the whole family has a problem, an intestinal inflammatory sickness called flatulence or farting . They’ve had to invest in air cleaner products for their house, cabin, and cars. I know I clean their cars by my cleaning services business. But on a lighter side, I found that the best way to get rid of mostly bad smells for cars is to leave then in the sun with the doors wide open for a couple of hours, The Suns UV lighting kills most viruses and opening the doors wide open gets rid of the smell naturally. No really it works, and it’s free.💩
From Buffalo, NY. Hey Pal THANKS for posting this video.
Dealerships usually do not recommend LYSOL because it is too strong of a chemical cleaner and could damage the duct material over time. But yes this would work or help with the odor
@@MJs-85 years later and i still haven’t had any problems with the vents. Lysol does its thing 👍
Two weeks ago I sprayed the output vents under the hood. It lasted maybe a few days…I just tried it your way and I hope it works because getting access to the cabin air filter vent was not easy on my Cadillac haha 🥴
Sorry to hear that. But the good news is you now know how to replace your own air filter in your car when it’s time for changing. Yeah it should work, I did mine once and the stench went away. Best of luck 🤙
@@NuMBERNYC Hi , do you think it is the same as a Honda City 2020/Ballade 2020 , to be able to drop the cubby / glove box and then removing the filter cover and filter..... spraying in there? i am not sure if there is a fan there
@@NuMBERNYC i told my mechanic to change my cabin filter and he couldn't because he told me he needs tools that only ram has. And I think he also said they are expensive. He told me that im going to have to buy it. My truck is a 2009 ram and the cabin has prob never been changed because of that. The only reason my truck smells the way it does is because of the dirty carpet and seats not because of the vents which is crazy cuz the filter has never been changed.
@@juaquiqui-kun4333 I'm a mechanic and you do not need a "special tool" to change the cabin filter on a Ram. Get another mechanic or google it and do it yourself. It's not hard
Lol right most are right behind your glove box’ press in both sides of glove box and it falls down’ pull it out and then pull out old filter’
Not every car is that easy but 90% are
i wish i found this video earlier. I just replaced my cabin filter today and i did the spray thing but didn't switch the modes. I have a tesla which is a bit harder to do. I will do it next time when i change the filter again.
I am 67 years old and have had many cars. Never have I experienced a rotten smell in any of my cars. I change the filters during the oil change if it is time. I live in California so maybe that is why I don't get a moldy smell.
Hey man thanks a lot for this great technique, I tried buying chemicals in the past specifically for bad odor and didn't work, even taking the car the dealership and nothing!
This is a economical and effective way to reduce and eliminate bad odors.
Thanks happy holidays.
Thank you Joscelyn!
That begining part was MEEEE ASF EVERYDAY THIS WEEK BRUH
BANG>>>!!! Just unloaded one full can of LYSOL into cabin filter area behind glove box, and the exterior intakes under the hood.. Follow instructions with whatever vehicle you own. This works well for killing bacteria, and irritating humans.. Much appreciated.. we may need to air out vehicle overnight...
One of the best ways to prevent the mold issue is to not use the recirculation function of the ac in the car. If you do use it just change to fresh air 5 to 10 minutes before you reach your destination. And change your filters at least every 3rd oil change.
will try this on my prius. thanks for your video.
Have fun!
Thank you so much 🙏 I will do it but I will keep the engine off because I am scared to hurt my fingers and I will put it on after I spray 🙏
You’re absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this great piece of information. It worked like a charm ❤
Just change the filter one time a year or two if u use regularly 😊😊
The A/C evaporator is a small heat exchanger located under the cabin filter and is no larger than the surface area of the cabin filter. So the only thing that needs to be cleaned is the evaporator. There is no need to switch the vents from top to middle to bottom as it does absolutely nothing. There is nothing in the ducting that can trap moisture nor odor as it is nothing more than an open pipe!!!
The Evap is what’s dirty n grimy and causing the odor. Not the vents. Or tubing. At this point your just covering the smell. Need to do a evap coil cleaner or replace the evap. Depending on how bad it is
@@pulpo.r7790 Show us how?
I tested today and great working
It’s a great idea To clean your entire vent system, but once you do it replace that cabin filter I personally do it every two years , So my friends, stay cool and fresh
Thank you...I need to do this to our 2016 Ford Fusion SE... both wifey and I be smelling a bad order coming out of the air vents of the car everytime we turn on the A/C or the heater
If it is due to a mice infestation and the after effects, this won't work. Must get rid of the mice to prevent further problems, replace the cabin filter, and after that I've found activated charcoal as well as a product called smelleze (I no financial interest in either) that really works in my 2017 ZL1 camaro convertible. I did not have much luck with lysol disinfectant spray, just weird lingering chemical odors; ozone generator didn't do much either. The chevy dealer wanted to pull the dash(!) for a thorough fix, but that was far too drastic in my opinion and $5,000.... FYI. Thank you for your video.
Although this will kill what's causing the smell, it wont clean the root cause. The smell will return, given time. Take down the blower fan, get a can of Klima cleaner and spray into the evaporator from the opening and the foam will remove trapped dirt and debris.
What’s the blower fan?
@@ministercarlos814 it pushes air through your evaporator coils. Usually located right behind the glove compartment. You want to spray down the coils since they are the culprit with trapped debris.
I tried this, it works for a day. It's better to buy an $8 cabin air filter and install it.
This method won’t work if you have an old cabin filter. You have to change your air filter and engine filter every year.
Good tips!!! Thanks man!! Lysol! He stoled my idea 💡! I don't mind bro!! God bless!!
If your dash plastic okay. But if you have leather never use lysol into you vent, it wii crack the material. Personal experience
What would you recommend to use instead of Lysol? Thank you in advance.
From Lysol website: "Lysol does not recommend using Lysol Disinfectant spray on brass, copper or aluminum or painted wood surfaces." Please do not use corrosive products when cleaning the AC evaporator. I find that the car dealers have their own products that will not damage the AC evaporator. It's about USD20, and roughtly the same from Amazon or local auto parts stores. Thank you.
Thank you! Lysol does not damage your car parts nor does it damage any home products as long as you let it air dry. That’s why when you blow Lysol in your car, I show you in the video how to air blow through the vents with your car’s AC.
The last comment was funny! I just wanted to say "your gonna make a good little wife" someday....lol
Use 100% vinegar and filtered water as a spray mixture. Not Lysol, dangerous.
Think Sir it was a great video I appreciate your time and your effort I'm going to give it a shot thanks again
Just an idea but maybe you should change the cabin air filter. Clean is always the best smell I know.
Yes change the cabin filter every year
Ill try this method first thanks
My husband does it from the inside. He leaves engine running. Then he just sprays the vents 😉
That is awesome! Thank you very much for that!
There are topical solutions to lysol like vinger, breathing harsh chemicals is just as bad as the mold
Need to clean the evaporator behind the blower fan.
Like does spraying Lysol directly into your fan, does that limit the life of the fan motor, just asking ,cause Lysol is not made for car hvac system!
Best way to clean it is during winter time and it’s raining heavily turned on your ac and it will be cleaned
I inherited a good looking, imaculate 2000 red Chevy Z71 ext cab With bullet hole mags and Mickey Thompson tires, however, tbe seats smell like a gready garage. Scott was a core driller for a mining company, he passed away from cancer, a few minutes after midnight into 2021. He left me his Chevy, even though I already have a 2001, because I was his best friend and took him to all his treatments, and he didnt want his younger brother (52) to junk it and park it in the weeds. I dont drive it much, b7t I cant stand that greasy shop smell. Any tips?
I would remove and clean out all the airways to make sure it does not have any molds
Fun deal! Thanks for sharing.
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And you should also tell the people that the Lysol can ruin the casing around the vents like it did mine.
Sorry to hear your vents fascia were ruined. I didnt encountered any of those problems on my units or dashboard components.
@@NuMBERNYC Lucky me than I guess
Please don't use lysol. It's highly toxic. I'm sure you can find more than 3% hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle. Having a carbon filter helps as well as using charcoal bags.
Just one more comment if it's the summer time it could be mildew and mold in the condensate pan of the air conditioning evaporator coil. Or it's simply the upholstery in carpet stinks. Try ozone
Thanks for sharing I'll give it a try to get a nice clean smell. By the way it looks like you have an iPad on your dash is that an iPad holder for vehicles? Where to find in what brand? 🙂 thanks
Thank you! I made fabricated a mount to hold my ipad. I made a video on how to do it, its somewhere in my channel.
Thanks for the tip, I going to try it on my 2011 camry which I just bought and it has a musty odor when I turn on my heat
So you use one bottle for each vent option
Correct
I believe in you.....that works
Okay, so what about the defrost cycle for the windshield and back window? Would you recommend also doing a spray for those settings separately cause that's another separate air flow. And thank you for sharing this very informative tutorial as well.
Does your car have actual Vents and that the back window? The rear defrost on every car I have owned only had the electric heating element embedded in the glass for the rear defrost.
Gotta clean the drain out too.
Thanks
Each car may have different fan location... Good video tho!
This could have been a 5-min video and way less complicated. Basically take the cabin filter out turn on AC use the air exchange setting spray the entire can, problem solved. There, I saved you all some time.
I was thinking the same thing 😅
I don't recommend spraying an acidic vaporized liquid such as Lysol directly into electrical parts such as a fan motor, fan motor resistor and evaporator. (all are in close proximity to one another), electrical parts don't react well to liquids. i guess if you want to shell out $2000 plus for a new evaporator and fan motor and resistor this is the way to go. there are other safer alternatives for your cars a/c system such as coil cleaner for the evaporator, or just go see a pro that will have to fix it at his cost if he jacks it up.
Two years later and my motor,fan,evaporator,engine,etc. are running great!
thank you for the great tip.
Glad it was helpful!
On your video, you pressed AC and the outside air circulate button. I'm confused. The comments say hit recirculate the air.
Thank you. Bro. God bless you for sharing.
Hi very informative video. I have a 2016 Corolla with strong fuel smell coming from AC vents first 1-2 min after being started in morning, then clear normal air and no engine codes. Any idea of what could be my issue?
There may be the possibility of damaging the fan motor doing that. I am not certain but it can't be good for it.
I’ve done this to multiple cars, and the motors still work without any problems 👍
Is it OK to spray liquid into an electrical fan though?
Thanks for this tip! On average, how often do you do this?
I only had to do it once. =)
But I change the fliters of the cabin and engine every once a year
Great thanks 👋
No problem 👍
my car is old, you have to go through the cowel on the outside of the car, no air filter..
Yeah, been doing that inside my car and just a spray glance at cabin filter but now will do half empty or more right inside that cabin filter holder. 😊 hey, i also subcribed to uf channel.
My Tesla is much simpler. I can take the air intake cover off and clean the entire thing with the air off. No need to spray into an electrical system.
And also at the same time, you don’t wanna overdo with the spray cause you do have electrical wires hooked up to the motor ?
Great tip thanks
Thanks 🎉
99% iso is what you should use, wear a p100 multi vapor mask
Left a car at a country spot and due to the weather change I’m assuming is why a mouse crawled into my Hyundai cabin air filter now it’s smells like ammonia pee terrible! Car is immaculate now this
Any recommendations
They want to charge me 200 minimum for the job and they sound unsure if it’s garunteed and not need to take things apart he said 🤦♂️
If you know how to remove the cabin air filter (if not, I made a video) and clean it yourself. Make sure the car if turned off and put some gloves and clean the hell out of that cabin filter location. Then put a new filter.
@@NuMBERNYC did that about 3 times still smells called my mechanic he said drop it off and he’ll get it there a bit make sure he don’t crawl in there and die and this point smells like it
thanks!
wondering if i could use this product
to clean a window ac unit
That I'm not sure of, sorry.
excellent video
Wow that was great thank you
Thank you very much. Awesome. A big help.
I just replaced the filter when i had all of them changed.
Thank you!😎
So I don't have a problem with this method but you should really use alcohol instead because Lysol leaves a sticky residue and that will attract a lot of dust build up and that's a whole nother problem..... so for this one at least 91% just put the alcohol in some type of spray bottle 100% works better and you won't have to worry about your electronics with alcohol either 100% factual
Oh wow that’s a great idea. Nice!
@@NuMBERNYC it works perfectly and like I said you won't have to worry about the Blower getting Caked Up with dust and everything else that's in the car because alcohol isn't sticky at all when it dries and it dries instantly
Rubbing alcohol in spray bottle?
how about the BG Frigi-Fresh product recommended by another (see thread above)?
What if the odor is coming from the ducts under the hood and not from the interior ducts and air filter?
If the odor is coming from the ducts under the hood, spray from that side first. Make sure you blast the AC for it to suck in the Lysol
"mold" & "Odor" right? Weed and blunts im guessing?
Helo Sir good day am professional electrical engineering technical and professional vehicles air condition AC i on so operat scanner please am interested to work in Dubai
Good luck have it professionally done
Me too!!!!
Thanks for making the video. Also is that an iPad mounted to the dash? Is it permanently connected to power and the stereo? Please share the setup.
Thanks. The iPad is connected via Bluetooth. I made two videos of two separate iPad installation somewhere in my channel. Thanks for watching