Need help finding right product to get rid of odor

I bought it for about $20 on ebay (IIRC, maybe it was closer to $30?), but it was a few years ago. after seeing how it works, i used a cheaper method on another car that worked almost as well. I put 100% isopropyl alcohol in a spray bottle and sprayed as much as I could in the cabin filter opening (sans filter of course) letting it drain via the drain tube. later, i started AC on high (fresh air) and sprayed it into air intake under the windshield. be careful, it's combustible. you could also find the active ingredients of the toyota's spray, and purchase that separately, but i didn't do it.

 

Try Kool-It. It's another AC evaporator cleaner that works the same way as the Toyota cleaner. It doesn't include the can that sprays the air intake vent, but that might not be needed to remove the odor. In old posts here, some people here have reported that they skipped that air intake spray because it is scented, and they didn't want to breathe that. Something like Lysol might be equivalent to that.

I bought some Kool-It on amazon.com because my car had a terrible stink when I bought it used a year and a half ago. I haven't ended up using it yet, because the stink cleaned up from elsewhere in the car, and there's no odor with the AC. I'll use it at some point though.

 

good point about the used cars. the only 2 cars i had to service for AC smell were acquired used. the cars i have since new don't have problems, but i make sure to only use fresh air (no recirculate) and turn off AC half of mile before destination.

 

Koolit works great. Don't spray anything else in the vents it does nothing whatsoever except make you smell stink.
Dealers get $125 here for e coil service here. Up on lift they attach the spray can of microbial cleaner with the rubber hose to the drip hose, the spray can contents is injected back up the hose as foam and then turns to liquid and drips back out the hose, in addition to cleaning the drip tube it also cleans the ecoil where the smell resides. The hard expensive part is getting the car high enough to get to the drip tube.
If the car is used everyday the ecoil pretty much stays wet and mold does not set up but if you use the car a lot and the let it sit for days that's when it dries up and gets moldy.

The dealer basicly uses koolit with another can of the most god awful jean natai old lady perfume stench u have ever smelled. Skip that can if dealer serviced.

Koolit amazon.com $15.

 

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Thats just perfume. Does nothing to clean the mold that is deep in the ecoil. You have to clean the coils just like you have to clean the coils on your home ac unit. You can spray perfume all day in the ac vents first time you turn on the ac it will just get blown out.

 

My 2013 Pius plugin had a similar problem.
My solution was to have my Mother-in-law exit the passenger seat and close the door

 

Sold lot more than Kool-it for the pass 3 years cause it works and easier to use

 

With other cars I owned, (1 was always outside) we had a neighbor who's cat would piss in the hood and wipers and it stunk like hell. I took a pail of bleach water and dumped it on the wipers and on the hood, making sure plenty went down the vents. It worked well, but it was better when the cat "disappeared".

 

It's the way the dealer does it. It's benign it works and it smells great.
Only hard part is getting the car high enough to get under it to the drip tube. First time do 2 cans douche it good.


I usually clean the condenser too. Go to lowes buy 2 cans of Coil Cleaner in the ac filter aisle. Take the top plastic cover off the top of the rad.
Hose the condenser down good with 2 cans of that cleaner. If really bug riddled let it sit then hose it off.

This is nothing new here. It's basic maintenance the same thing you should do to your home unit.
You will be rewarded with ice cold air.

Owned my Prius 10 yeas ac is ice cold. House too.