Smelly heater

jools · Unread post by **jools** » 06 Apr 2004, 22:06

Just got back from picking my new xanita up, one problem that has occured over th 60 mile journey home is the heater smells very very earthie, with a hint of dead in it, any ideas what it would be or will it go in time

paranoid · Unread post by **paranoid** » 06 Apr 2004, 22:32

Try changing the pollen filter filter that made a big difference to my 97 td, had a sort of cow dung sort of smell before.
plus its cheap £9 from GSF

JohnD · Unread post by **JohnD** » 06 Apr 2004, 23:16

Have the engine running for a while with the heater turned up to hot. The heat will kill off any bacteria.

jools · Unread post by **jools** » 07 Apr 2004, 01:36

I have done about 70 miles with the heater on full and no luck. How do I change the pollen filter?

jools · Unread post by **jools** » 07 Apr 2004, 17:55

anybody??

morgan73 · Unread post by **morgan73** » 07 Apr 2004, 21:33

You need to look in the footwell underneath your glovebox. Whilst looking up towards the glovebox undo the screws (funny flower ones!)holding the carpet in place. Pull back the carpet. Under here you'll have 2 or 3 more screws (cross head). Undo these and the pollen filter cover will then slide out. Slide it towards the driver's side. The pollen filter will drop out, clean the housing, replace new filter and put everything back in reverse order. Hope this helps. I've just done it to my xantia and the smell has gone.

jools · Unread post by **jools** » 08 Apr 2004, 00:02

Thanks for that, I will go and look tommrrow.

paranoid · Unread post by **paranoid** » 08 Apr 2004, 02:04

MINE is a 97 td and after removing carpet I could not find any screws at all, the cover to the filter is about 5 inches long by about an inch wide and slides out one side, mine would not budge due to never being moved since new, it had some sticky foam seal around it, had to push and pull a few times to shift it.