seanvree

So I installed the air freshener a month ago. Honestly, I can't tell a difference in the cabin, but the system does detect it. i have the setting on high. The actual canister in the glove box hasn't gone down at all. So, just wondering what other people's experience is.

Thanks,

bellavance

I put Air Balance on low, and I sometimes can smell it, especially just after starting the car. It's a nice touch. After 3,000 km, I can see the fluid level very slowly going down.

Eilers

Probably just stating the obvious, but just in case:
I read someone had the same problem. He took the vial out and re-inserted it, which apparently solved it for him.

coladin

Mine has the jar with the fluid already in it, and the four tubes for re-fill, but I can't smell anything either but being the car is new I am enjoying that fragrance for now!

Yogibara

I sure wish there was a cannibus scent.

c4004matic

Ive said it before and I'll say it again. Waste of money, for a fart masker. It takes over 25% of the already small glove compartment plus you can buy a so called "fragrance dispenser" for 2 bucks and hide it somewhere you cant see it.

Eilers

I get the joke, but in all seriousness, You can refill the vial with your own favorite alcohol based scent, so here you go.

http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/fresh-ca...9yNxha.GCZW4pw

floridadriver

Amazing. The fact the car has such a cool option, AND that Nordstrom can make you smell the way people try NOT to smell around law enforcement. If anything alcohol based goes in there, why not add some 18yo single malt Scotch?

I like the possibility of the option for double carbon filtration and ionizer as much as the scent. It's a chump change add on and great conversation piece.

schvamf

Cheaper option...
https://www.touchofmodern.com/sales/...anical-air-oil

jolt8631

Hmm, not that it looks cheaper.....

I think I would rather go without, sorry.

floridadriver

OR...if looking for an even CHEAPER option...this way you have fresh air and can skip the Mercedes all together

DCDude1776@me.c

That wheel's already been invented-->

floridadriver

Has anyone with air balance refilled their own canister yet?

ManiacGT

When I watched the marketing video for Air Balance it showed that you not only got the smelly insert bit but it also means the air gets ionised so perhaps there's more to what you pay than just a canister of smell?

abstractls

Except that you are incorrect and it also includes an ionizer. Plus a full can which is $50 anyway. So you really dont pay that much extra and you don't look like some cheap guy buying walmart air fragrance for your car

ManiacGT

This is the excerpt from the S Class promo material, but from what I can see its the same setup in the C Class. As seen on the Merc TV C Class Air Balance video.


As a world first, the new S-Class Saloon has an “active perfuming system” as part of the AIR-BALANCE package. ‘Active’ means that the perfuming system is switched on and off manually, with manual adjustment of the intensity. The perfume atomisation system individualises the smell of the vehicle interior. It neither changes the interior smell permanently, nor are perfume molecules deposited on fabric surfaces or clothing.

Another feature of the AIR-BALANCE package is improved filtering of the outside air fed into the vehicle interior by the climate control system, and of the air recirculating in the interior in air recirculation mode. The filter system is now even more efficient, and is able to reduce the peak levels of certain gaseous emissions while lowering their concentration below the perception threshold. Ionisation is another component of the AIR-BALANCE package, the air from the climate control unit being conducted into the interior via an ioniser. In a combined operating mode this renders certain viruses, bacteria and spores inactive (cleaning effect). At the same time the air can be freshened by an increased concentration of negatively charged oxygen ions (relaxing effect).

StanNH

Wow! This stuff could put Viagra out of business.

ManiacGT

I think its rather the antithesis of Viagra.

zyxclaes

I have a new car with the Air Balance package. The setting is on high and I really can't smell anything. My wife and my kids can't sense any smell either. I have taken the vial out and re-inserted it.

Just have to ask you guys before I take it to the dealer (and be declared as an idiot with no nose)... Is the smell clearly recognisable when the setting is on high?

floridadriver

Try stopping the atomizer in the settings, ensure the cartridge is seated deep in the glove box holder. The glove box must be closed, then when turn on the atomizer in the settings, you'll hear it engage in glove box. The scent is not dispersed immediately or constantly, but intermittently. Noticeable on a 5 minute drive. Very nice, subtle, but noticeable.

seanvree

Yeah, I'm not smelling it clearly. I have mine on high as well. I have 10K+ miles on my 2015 C300 and the fluid has only gone down maybe 1/8th?

floridadriver

If you turn air freshener off, on a restart of the car and turning it on on in the vehicle settings, do you hear it engage? (sounds like a little motor). Does led backlight work on it? If in doubt, take it in. It's not in your face powerful, but just like at top of bottle smells, it disperses, through all the A/C vents. Even when in heat mode, it turns on the A/C vents very little occasionally (can hear motors turning the vents on/off as well). Very trick little system, and with the double filters and the ionization, seems a nice trick for the cost.

zyxclaes

I'm not in my car now but will try as soon as I can. I know for sure that I can hear a motor for approx. one second when opening the glove compartment. I suppose it disengages the little bottle so you can take it out. The LED backlight seems to work.

ThompasMB

Why can not ionisation be on all the time? Why can it be turned off?

floridadriver

It can be. Separate settings in Comand/Audio 20. One for ionization on/off. One for fragrance with off-low-med-high. The double carbon filter is always present.