I've seen a sign at my local dealer that they can do an air conditioning system cleaning which removes odors (such as cigarette smoke smell) from the system. I can't remember how much it was and how they do it, but I'm sure it's not cheap. Does anyone have a creative way of doing this other than spending the money at the dealer? Thanks.

Matt

 

Check the maintenance forum, I think there was a thread about this recently....

 

OZIUM. i asked about that earlier and it works pretty darn good.

 

Ozium just seems to temporarily get rid of any smells.
I did say in another post about this stuff I saw on either the Spike or Speed channel. You can inject this foam and it fills your whole duct system up and kills off any bacteria living in there from the condensation left behind from the a/c. They had a clear mock up of an a/c unit and it showed how well it foamed up. Like that expanding foam insulation.

 

heres the link with the product I think youre talking about.
http://www.trademotion.com/partlocat...catalogid=3329

 

If you pull the filter behind the glove box, turn the fan on low, and spray lots and lots of Lysol in the opening, the locker room smell will soon be gone. I've had to do this once, on every new vehicle with A/C.

 

Bill,
Where is this filter? Is it accessed from the glovebox or from underneath and behind it?

Matt

 

Lesse... Roger suggested looking in the Maint section for an earlier thread. So I did, and found the thread where 4RF referred to having posted:

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f16/best-way-clean-vents-39594/


And then, in that very same thread (whodda thunk it?!) there was a link to a write-up that Bob_98SR5 had done on how to get to the filter/fan!

http://www.4runners.org/articles/fan


How weird!

 

Well, before I pull the fan out, I decided to give it a thorough coat of Febreeze tonight and also put a good bit of Febreeze onto the intake vents underneath the wipers. I've put a couple of treatments on these vents over the last 20 minutes while the truck has been idling and the air blowing, and I can already tell a world of difference.

Matt

 

I did this once with lysol and it got the dead dog smell out of my truck when I first got it. Worked wonders.

 

I've used the expanding foam stuff with good luck on my VW camper. Check it out..