Ew, whats that smell?

[lil_dcb7]

Well, some of you might know of my moms 04 Sorento

Recently, when she turns the AC on, it SMELLS!! bad... My mom works at the post office(mon-sat) and she dosnt have time to take it to the dealer so I wanted to find out for her on the net. What could it be? Some thing in the AC system? the antifreeze? a dead animal in the vents? PEOPLE HELP ME AND MOMS OUT! Like i said in a thread before, ya'll my second family. heeeeeeelp this smell is driving me nuts....

[lil_dcb7]

any one....?

-feeble bump-

[93accord2dr]

It's a Kia, so it must be a dead Korean in the engine bay.

That, or maybe one of the gerbils that makes the car go VROOM died

[pwrusr]

it could be mold and/or other stuff that has collected on the evaporater coil.

[90AccordSiR]

You can buy A/C deoderizer from the auto parts store. Its really easy to use and works well.

[lil_dcb7]

It's a Kia, so it must be a dead Korean in the engine bay.

That, or maybe one of the gerbils that makes the car go VROOM died

i know its not the gerbils, the car still runs...

and as for the korean, we tossed him in the lake before the smell

[lil_dcb7]

it could be mold and/or other stuff that has collected on the evaporater coil.

mold builds up that quick? I mean we've only had the car for a year...

[90CB7DRIVA]

Maybe some rats. This happened to my moms plymouth voyager, she had a rat in the fan and it was there dead for like a week( from the looks of it) and when she turned on the a/c all that funky smell came in.

[pwrusr]

mold builds up that quick? I mean we've only had the car for a year...

Yes a couple months is all the mold needs to really build up.
The outside air intake for the vents is NOT filtered so leaves pine needles and all sorts of crap can get into the AC coil under the dash (ask me how I know ).
I've since put a filter used for home Air Conditioners to get the outside air filtered.