Hi everyone, I've seen a lot of talk about broken air con needing a new condensor/compressor, but these seem to be for when the air con isn't working at all. It's a 2006 Octavia 1.9 PD.

 

My air con has 2 issues mainly, one of which being it takes about 5-10 minutes to blow cold, it blows warm air at me until then. I find turning on the 'econ' then turning it off seems to help.

 

An addition is that the air con seems to smell quite bad, a musty smell comes out of the vents only when using the air con and only for a few minutes after not using the car for a bit.

 

I took it to get regassed as well as the anti bacterial treatment (which turns out they just let off some kind of canister in my car with the recirc on) which doesn't seem to have helped.

 

Anyone got any ideas what it might be?

 

Cheers

 

Pindadio

Edited 2 July, 20187 yr by Pindadio

When was your pollen filter last changed?

 

Nasty smells are quite common with air con, caused by bacteria/mould and suchlike living on the condensation that forms on the evaporator. You can help keep the smells at bay by changing the pollen filter at the regular interval, and switching off the air con and running the fan about 5 minutes before the end of the journey to dry out the condensation on the evaporator.

@Pindadio - Agreed about replacing the pollen filter.

 

@chrisund123 - I'm not sure about "turning off the AC": The OP mentions "econ" which is a Climatronic mode selection.

I would get the charge checked by somebody that knows what they are talking about and not just some diddly that knows how to plug it into an aircon machine.