OEM Nav A/C question

Originally Posted by Strangler

Ok, I think I have the same issues as you. It's been an issue for awhile now but hasn't bothered me too much because of the extreme summer heat. When it starts to cool down a bit, I won't be using A/C because I'll freeze to death or close to it. In this temperature, I would want to only use the Normal cool air without A/C. The problem with this is that the normal cool air smells stinky. I'm not sure why and yes, I've changed my air cabin filter many times and there are no socks in there. This smell sometimes go through normal A/C for a very short amount of time. As soon as I hit the recirculate button, I get fresh smelling air. So the reason why I would want to recirculate normal air is to get rid of that nasty normal cool air smell. The bad smell doesn't come on for Recirculation A/C or hot temperature, but for normal air get ready to sniff up that nasty smell.

There is a trick to this but it doesn't seem to do much. If you hit the "OFF" button then hit "Recirculate," the light will turn on but there will be no air.