GLA Class (X156) Produced 2013-2020

My "new" GLA45 smells like wet socks

Old Jun 19, 2025 | 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Baltistyle
Not to be too terribly blunt, but you are complaining about a problem and not willing to follow the solution that has been working for others for well over a decade (I first encountered this 19 years ago) that these problems have been happening. good luck. after you decide which natural disaster, insurance fraud, water infiltration from a random unknown seal or other thing that didn’t happen, revisit the first thread you posted this in and just follow the solution. If this were a towel that you dried off from a shower with, and you continually smelled mildew in your towels because you leave them on your floor wet, but someone said if you hang them up to dry each time they won’t smell anymore, most would expect that you’d learn to just pick up the towels instead of trying to figure out if the towels came from a certain region that had cotton that smells different due to the rainy season it was grown in or the fertilizer used.
I'm gonna keep doing things my way and you can keep doing things your way.

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For the record, I don't think the car had water intrusion or insurance fraud.
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Old Jun 19, 2025 | 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by MB2timer
It really doesn’t cost much in time or attention to run the vent for 2 minutes before turning on the air conditioning, and 2 minutes prior to turning the ignition off.
You're absolutely right.
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