Should I take them to court?

Iceweasel

mr_stick wrote: »

tried the whole running the air con for 10 mins

10 minutes is a waste of time.

Get into the habit of leaving the AC permanently on and use the heater control to get the temperature in the car you want. - do NOT use the re-circ unless it's to exclude exhaust fumes in heavy slow traffic in the city

I haven't switched the AC off in my car since I got it 3 years ago.

mr_stick

AdrianC wrote: »

Sorry, mis-read/mis-understood. Non-recirc is the default, and what you really should be using 99.9% of the time, unless you absolutely definitely need recirc.

Foam in the vents and hoovering won't make that big a difference if the spores have spread through the entire system. The HVAC tracts are long and complex. To get at them all for a manual cleaning would require almost the entire interior and dashboard, and possibly a good chunk of the engine bay, to be stripped out. Seems to me that the best bet for a really deep clean would be introduce the sterilising agent via the cabin air intake with the fan running, all doors and windows shut, then leave it recirculating for a while, all with the direction cycling through all combinations. There may well be some diagnostic mode to allow that, because I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in the car with it going on.

However, and don't take this the wrong way, I strongly suspect that a relatively small issue has been magnified into a large psychological block for you, and you'll never trust this car again. Sell it.

I have done what you suggested - a few times. But without the diagnostics, I did it manually while waiting outside of the car. I used Propan-2-ol spray - lots of it.

Yeah you are right it is a psychological block. I would find it hard to sell it to someone knowing the problems that it has. Maybe I should just hope that the dealer just swaps it for another car or gives a refund?

I am actually about to order a gas mask, lol.

sheramber

If you Google Toyota mould in aircon you will get several hits and various solutions.

mr_stick

sheramber wrote: »

If you Google Toyota mould in aircon you will get several hits and various solutions.

Tried them all.

bigjl

AdrianC wrote: »

Your reading skills are on a par with your critical thinking. It's a Prius.



Japan's a similar cool, damp climate to the UK, is it? No, thought not.

Thankfully my reading skills are better than yours.

Go read my comment again in the context of the rest of the post.

And explain to me what the climate of Japan is?

Is it dry like a desert?

Probably not since it is an island nation.

And check out how the OP has ended his initial post.

Does it seem familiar?

It should do as it strongly resembles the way DM has been ending his posts these days.

But you crack on and believe that somebody bought an 8yr old Prius from a Toyota main dealer and has had test done for mould including cultures in I assume a Lab.

Or did they just get that idea from old episodes of TopGear???

sheramber

mr_stick wrote: »

Tried them all.

really? You haven't mentioned them

kev25v6

Put the air con on hot and have it blow on full while driving for a good hour or so, not just idling on the drive. It will dry out all the water etc in the internal vent pipe work. Put a air con bomb through the car while it's on recirc then leave a large tub of baking soda in the car, especially over night. I'd put the lid on it while driving so not to spill it everywhere. The baking soda will absorb damp and smells in the car, I only used a Chinese takeaway size tub in mine and it sorted my damp smell. Check under your carpets to make sure they are not holding water, the aircon drain could be leaking water internally instead of under the car. A door seal may even be leaking water in and causing damp and mould in the car. I'd say not to try going to court over an 8 year old car, it's always going to have faults and you can't expect it to be like new even with low mileage, it's could have had a very hard life for those 35k miles.

AdrianC

bigjl wrote: »

And explain to me what the climate of Japan is?

Hot summers, cold winters. Extremes of temperature that we don't get in the UK - and, as a result, much less of the kind of pervasive moistness that is so conducive to mould growth.

phill99

You wont succeed in getting compensation for 'personal injury'. You have no evidence that the air con has caused your asthma to get worse. The evidence is purely coincidental. There could be a whole range of things that are making your asthma worse.

mr_stick

phill99 wrote: »

You wont succeed in getting compensation for 'personal injury'. You have no evidence that the air con has caused your asthma to get worse. The evidence is purely coincidental. There could be a whole range of things that are making your asthma worse.

What do I have to lose in trying? I have evidence that the car has a mould problem. I have doctor's reports too.