Moldy smell

[Tex ST-AR]

So I'm taking my FiST to the dealer tomorrow. I have noticed that whenever it rains the car gets a horrible wet dog/moldy smell through the vents. I notice it more with the heater on but you can notice it with the air on also. Do you think I have to reflash to uninstall my Cobb AP? The car only has 11k on it and less than a year old. Before anyone asked I haven't driven into any water or transported any animals. Do our cars have an in-cabin air filter?

 

[FocusMike]

Our cars do have an in cabin filter located in the heater core housing. If you are using defrost when it rains it'll pull the air in from the outside and thats probably what you are smelling. You don't have to uninstall the tune for something like this.

 

[Tex ST-AR]

I have run the defrost while it was raining. Good info thanks.

 

[FordService]

So I'm taking my FiST to the dealer tomorrow. I have noticed that whenever it rains the car gets a horrible wet dog/moldy smell through the vents. I notice it more with the heater on but you can notice it with the air on also. Do you think I have to reflash to uninstall my Cobb AP? The car only has 11k on it and less than a year old. Before anyone asked I haven't driven into any water or transported any animals. Do our cars have an in-cabin air filter?

Hi Tex ST-AR,

Let me know how your dealer visit goes today, and I'll check into any additional options.

Meagan

 

[SirSlaughter]

Our cars do have an in cabin filter located in the heater core housing. If you are using defrost when it rains it'll pull the air in from the outside and thats probably what you are smelling. You don't have to uninstall the tune for something like this.

Oooooh, so THAT'S what that smell was today. I was wondering what hell-spawn brought about such an awkward smell upon my car, but now I know.

 

[Tex ST-AR]

So correct me if I shouldn't feel this way. I'm pretty disappointed with the dealership I took it in on Friday they kept it for most of the day and said they couldn't find anything wrong or any moisture in the heater core. I also mentioned that sometimes when putting it into reverse it binds and doesn't go smoothly into reverse and you have to let out the clutch a little bit to get it to engage. The service writer told me that four different people drove my car and they put over 50 miles on it and couldn't reproduce that issue so said that I was doing something wrong. I've been driving standard transmission cars for over 20 years I've had vehicles with over 150,000+ miles on the stock clutch with lightened flywheel and never burned up a clutch so I have a hard time believing that I'm doing something incorrectly. When I drop the car off I even said to them that I had seen on the forums other people saying that their cars did not shift smoothly and that there was a cable adjustment that could be done I can attach a photograph if people would like to see it but after popping the hood nothing looks like it is been touched the light covering of dust is on everything so they didn't take the airbox off to look at the transmission connection or anything.

 

[FordService]

So correct me if I shouldn't feel this way. I'm pretty disappointed with the dealership I took it in on Friday they kept it for most of the day and said they couldn't find anything wrong or any moisture in the heater core. I also mentioned that sometimes when putting it into reverse it binds and doesn't go smoothly into reverse and you have to let out the clutch a little bit to get it to engage. The service writer told me that four different people drove my car and they put over 50 miles on it and couldn't reproduce that issue so said that I was doing something wrong. I've been driving standard transmission cars for over 20 years I've had vehicles with over 150,000+ miles on the stock clutch with lightened flywheel and never burned up a clutch so I have a hard time believing that I'm doing something incorrectly. When I drop the car off I even said to them that I had seen on the forums other people saying that their cars did not shift smoothly and that there was a cable adjustment that could be done I can attach a photograph if people would like to see it but after popping the hood nothing looks like it is been touched the light covering of dust is on everything so they didn't take the airbox off to look at the transmission connection or anything.

Hi Tex ST-AR,

I got your message, and I'm looking into this.

Meagan