jimxo

Recently when I use the A/C or heater a bad smell like wet socks comes thru the vents any ideas what is causing this?

gsintensive

I had that experience in my previous 98 GS, no biggie though, just turn off A/C and let the outside air flow through your car couples days for 1~2 weeks, it'll go away.

AlphaJZS

iTrader: (2)

you were very specific in your details, hehe. The smell is coming from mildew/mold which have settled in the vents due to condensation. My solution to that (again..this is what I do, which might not be the best way of doing it) is to go get some LYSOL spray ANTIBACTERIAL turn on your car, turn the vents on high, go to the outside of your car, and at the bottom of the winsheild you will see some vents where the car draws in air, this is where you will spray the LYSOL and VOILA! now you have semi-cleaned lemon scented vents!

This is just a trick some people do, it is in no way a means of cleaning out your vents thoroughly, you can go to the dealer to do that.


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martialart

all you have to due is go to home depot and change your filter for your a/c the filter is located in your glove department. good luck....

jimxo

Home Depot sell this?

martialart

ya it si just a regular filter you would put in your house or apt but you have to cut it down to size to fit in your car. it will cost you no more then 10 bucks, the dealr will cost 65. thanks

ChuH

FYI, that the 2001+ GS use a different A/C filter than 98 to 2000 models. The 2001+ A/C filter is thicker and has charcoal impregnated in it. The 98 to 2000 is a simple HEPA filter (white in color when compare to the grey of the 2001+ GS filter). Notice the mistake when Steve Ganz sent me the wrong filter that was for the earlier GS. Did not fit my GS430 (too thin and did not have charcoal in it). The charcoal help take out bad smells.

Chu....

1loudlex

Here is what you do jim... You go into your bathroom.. turn on your shower and get into it.. Make sure you use soap... LOL.. Had to do it to ya Jim

Adam

martialart

now that was just damn funny as hell........

LS4fun

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DaveGS4

iTrader: (2)

Hey when did you become a moderator ?

Jim,

Check out this thread for some spray stuff from Toyota you can hook up to the AC that is supposed to give the entire thing a good cleaning.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...threadid=81943

jimxo

Wait, how often am I supposed to do this Is once a week enough

wilassasin

I had this very same problem, there is actually a post for this! What I did was just let the air flow through the car for like 2 weeks and it went away, lysol wouldn't hurt either maybe it will go away faster with lysol. Changing the a/c filter wont do anything about the smell ur getting, and also dont even waste time or money going to the dealer for this its just condensation build up from ac use over the summer.

LS4fun

That would be nice. Hook me up!