Air con smelling

[portas1971]

Being a new VW owner, this concerns me. I’m interested to know what settings people are using on the air con system and whether there is a commonality somewhere.
For example, I use climate exclusively, without the recirc pressed and with climatronic ticked in settings.

Do most people have the climatronic setting ticked in settings?
Do most people have air recirc on?
Do most people use climate or simply manual air con?

Slightly off topic and discussed elsewhere, one thing I have noticed is when using climate, cold air comes out of the dash vents for half of the time. Very unpleasant.


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[Bearman]

I wouldn't worry too much because it’s not VW specific thing. I’ve had it on other brand cars - it usually due to not running the aircon for a few months over winter, so that mould and bacteria can build up. Usually fixed by replacing a mouldy filter(s) or at worst, dealer can run some anti-mould/deodoriser through the aircon system.