It is a good habit to choose the fresh air mode for 10 mins once every hour if there are more than 3 occupants in the car to ensure that oxygen levels in the car and the air remains pleasant due to recycling else some people could complain of head ache etc.
Floor cabin air recirculation car intake.
So those 2 vents in the op pic are the floor ac vents.
Now start spraying the lysol into the intake outside the neon.
Check to make sure that the system is turned to fresh outside air and not the recirculation mode.
I was planning to change mine today and just picked up a filter at autozone for 14.
It has not been serviced for the past 4 years.
It manufactures car batteries oil filters wiper blades alternators starters air conditioning units and air filters.
Cabin air filters will usually filter the air on either setting if located on the cabin side of the firewall.
Can it be related to the fact that my a c servicing is due.
Just be sure to replace it as frequently as your manual suggests.
The intake area is directly in front of the driver s seat just below the windshield in the black plastic you should be able to see where the hole is.
However filters located under the hood at the air intake will not filter recirculated air.
The heating and ventilation air intake on most vehicles is at the base of the windshield.
Do not inhale this stuff.
The a c of my car throws outside air even in the recirculation mode.
Using the recirculation button helps get your car as cool as possible when it s hot outside and you have the a c on.
Here is a good tutorial of how to change the cabin air filter and do a bomb approach to cleaning the vents however i have purchased this alternative which requires you to spray the cleaner into the air recirculation intake as well as the vents and outside intake and in this shot you can see where the air comes out when you switch to floor.
One of its best selling cabin air filters is the acdelco cf188.
The in cabin air has already been cooled by it but you are letting it out.
Replacement filters should be pretty easy to find and cost 10 20.
This is more noticeable when the vehicle in vicinity is emitting large amount of smoke and it enters my cabin even in the recirculation mode.
The cabin air filter on the 2010 2011 is behind the glove compartment i think the location is similar on older gens.
I couldn t locate the inside ac recirculation intake but i sprayed the clean air in the passenger foot well location and i saw the spray being sucked up so it s somewhere down there.
It recirculates the kind of cool air that you get from the a c when you first turn it on and the longer it s on the cooler you car gets until it s as cool as the system can possibly be.