Help: Smelly aircon

[team_v]

Are they like the golfs, in the area under the glove box from memory?

Should be from everything i have read.

[Dilusi]

Are they like the golfs, in the area under the glove box from memory?

Just found this link which has instructions for changing the Tiguan pollen filter - may be helpful. Cabin Air Filter

and one with photos for Golf/Jetta, which I assume is a similar process VWVortex.com - Cabin or Pollen Filter DIY
Now that I know it is this easy, I won't wait for the service to change it.

[johnw]

Had the same thing in my Passat but the smell was ACTUAL wet dog as the previous owner had a dog (evident from all the hair under the rear seat!)

I used a couple of cans of autoglym aircondition sanitizer



It got rid of 95% of the smell, it's like Glen20 I guess but 10 time stronger. You let it off in the car with the A/C on and shut the doors. After about 10 min you air the car out. There was a moth trapped in the car when I was doing this and it passed out until 20 min later, and it flew off

Not bad for $16 from Repco

Oh I also changed my pollen filter, but the difference wasn't that big.