Question. I usually have my air come in from the outside of the car. But sometimes if I have the AC on on or anything that would force me to turn Recirc on, The air ALWAYS smells for like 2 min. It smells terrible, almost as if I were to taste metal in the air (if i could taste air) But the smell from the ducts will go away after like 2 minutes of the air blowing. same happens when I turn it from Recirc to Open, it'll smell for 2 minutes then go away. Anyone got any idea why it smells like butt for those 2 minutes? It's weird. It won't smell if I just turn it on or anything like that. only when I switch the air.

 

its usually the left over dried up condensation or whatever left in the ducts

 

take soem Dawn dish soap and vinager and rinse down your condensor coils......probably dirty........not sure where the coil is 100% but it might be accessable from the glovebox area if not then perhaps from below........

the water drain may be plugged and you are gettign a mold blowing through................

 

yeah i get it too. The solution as been the same in all the threads created about this problem.


I dont know if they ever work, but Im watching* for one! I never turn on my recirculate unless my ac is on. It hasnt been hot enough in my area where Id need ac though.

 

I noticed that when I added an in-cabin air filter (the tC doesn't come with one Standard), the smell went away a bit.

 

Yea you are right, when I worked at the dealership as a technician, I noticed all the tC doesn't come with Cabin Air Filter which i found that odd.

I talked to the service manager and told him about it but he said because it cannot be retro fit... which i don't understand why

So I checked my tC and decided to get cabin air filter from autozone and bam, it fits.