Let’s be honest, cleaning air ducts isn’t the most important aspect of maintaining a vehicle and assuring it gets the best performance over the number of years and mileage it’s expected to last. However, it is important for reasons the layman may not be aware of. Although the exact process differs based on the make and model of each car, the air filters and ductwork are contained systems that need to be cleaned in order to assure a flow of fresh air on a daily basis during the time you spend in your car.
Quite frankly and without vulgarity, the inside of the car is going to smell bad without proper ventilation. There are the smells of fresh pavement and litter on the side of the road, smells from having been at the gym, or if you have kids there are stale potato chips and cookie crumbs in the back seat. Air ducts and filters remove those bad smells and replace them with fresh air.
There are also molds and contaminants which can build up in the system throughout different seasons of the year. Unlike the large system of your house designed to handle such obstructions, your car is a small system that can become befouled quickly, and such a concept explains why air ducts need to be cleaned.
As far as the performance of the car, nothing happens if the air ducts aren’t cleaned. It has more to do with the comfort of the driver and passengers. Heating in the winter or air conditioning during the summer relies on having clean duct passages and will overwork themselves when trying to blow past an obstruction.
Eventually, if your ducts aren’t maintained, either your heater coil or air conditioning system is going to burn itself out by overworking beyond what the design engineer intended. Depending on the specific car you drive, such a failure can also affect other electric systems relate directly to how the car drives.
For proper service appropriate to the make and model vehicle you drive, contact Chesrown Chevrolet as a full-service dealership serving the Columbus, and Delaware, OH areas. You’ll find our representatives to be polite and courteous, and our technicians to be knowledgeable and polite. We don’t just sell new and used cars, we’ll make sure to get your vehicle taken care of with any maintenance or repairs you need from our full-service shop stocked with all the parts you might need and the tools required to do the job efficiently.
1701 Columbus Pike,
Delaware, OH 43015
