92LS4

My father recently passed away. He left behind his beloved 1992 LS400. This car is *PRISTINE*. It has 160,000km's but the car is a time capsule. One problem - it stinks! The car itself doesn't smell, nor does the leather, but when I turn the heat on, the car quickly fills with the most repulsive odor I have ever smelled. I've been told that it could be a water leak, but water CAN'T smell that bad. I suspect a dead animal, but I have no idea. I am trying to sell this vehicle because the rest of my family has no use for it, and I've had several people contact me about the vehicle, but I cannot sell this car to someone without rectifying this problem.

I have three questions:

Does anyone have any clue what the smell could be?
Does anyone know how I can access the intake duct or anything where I could spray some Lysol into? (keep in mind, I am not mechanic-literate).
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you so much!

Thermactor

iTrader: (1)

When I first bought my car, I had a look under it and found that the little hose going from the evaporator core to the underbody was almost completely blocked off at the end with some orange sediment. I broke the sediment off, of course, but you should look for the drainage hose under your car as well - it's probably retaining water that resulted in mildew infestation of the HVAC system. Drain the water and then you can try running the heater on max hot for a while, then spray either lysol or the real-deal odor elimination stuff they sell at NAPA into your inside and outside vents.

LXotic

Oh you must be so sad your father passed away...
I feel ya man.Dude keep the car in memory of your dad and fix
it as you go.. Good luck

92LS4

What does this hose look like? Where abouts is it located? I'm taking this car to a mechanic tomorrow, but I have a pending deal for tomorrow evening so I have to make sure it gets fixed.

Thanks!

It's definitely a sad time in my family, but we've managed to stay positive. We're a strong bunch . I'd love to keep the car, because as I said, it's in *MINT* condition, but I'll have my dad's '75 BMW 2002 to restore so I should be OKAY.

DaveGS4

iTrader: (2)

Very sorry to hear about your father.

I'll link you a couple of threads here in a second.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...ighlight=vents

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...ighlight=vents

PureDrifter

iTrader: (10)

drive around w/windows down and heat on FULL BLAST for ~20mins
then before parking turn heat off and run outside temp air for ~5mins.

shuold help kill mold.

Lexiss_sc430

iTrader: (2)

My condolences about your father, Its always hard to lose the ones you love.



Here maybe this will help, scroll down until you read my posts.




https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=222811