Fragrance Diffusers G80 and G90, Any 3rd Party Options Yet?

[Riley2323]

Anyone found a solution for cheap fragrance diffusers to use in what appears to be a proprietary system?

I took my expired cartridge apart. I am pretty sure it will be a fruitless effort. It was from my new to me G90’s fragrance holder. Both were expired after only 12,000 ish miles. I assume they only last about 60-90 days?

I am guessing they might have a timestamp that starts a count down on the Genesis car computer? Or they have some sort of temperature sensor on the round metal disk like a rice cooker, that can tell when the water, or in this case some sort of essential oil has been boiled off or evaporated off?

I have a feeling someone will need to take the chip out and reprogram or reset it somehow.

I will try it tomorrow, but I just don’t see sandalwood oil in the wick, resetting the message that says it is expired. But I still seem to remember being able to turn them on?

I did refill the wick with some sandalwood essential oil from Amazon, as it was definitely on the dry side.

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[EdP]

Anyone found a solution for cheap fragrance diffusers to use in what appears to be a proprietary system?

Beans, cabbage, broccoli will give you plenty of scent to diffuse.

 

[Riley2323]

Anyone found a solution for cheap fragrance diffusers to use in what appears to be a proprietary system?

I took my expired cartridge apart. I am pretty sure it will be a fruitless effort. It was from my new to me G90’s fragrance holder. Both were expired after only 12,000 ish miles. I assume they only last about 60-90 days?

I am guessing they might have a timestamp that starts a count down on the Genesis car computer? Or they have some sort of temperature sensor on the round metal disk like a rice cooker, that can tell when the water, or in this case some sort of essential oil has been boiled off or evaporated off?

I have a feeling someone will need to take the chip out and reprogram or reset it somehow.

I will try it tomorrow, but I just don’t see sandalwood oil in the wick, resetting the message that says it is expired. But I still seem to remember being able to turn them on?

I did refill the wick with some sandalwood essential oil from Amazon, as it was definitely on the dry side.

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So after filling the cartridge with sandalwood essential oil, more like putting enough in to saturate the wick, I put it back together and reinstalled it. It still says expired in the car, but I believe it still operates. It says something that cartridge is expired, please replace for optimum performance. I am paraphrasing of course.

So what have I learned?

I think you can easily refill these expired cartridges with essential oils. If you push down on the stainless steel plunger with the spring, and then wedge something into the half moon rubber gaskets, I suspect you can just put about 1ml maybe 2ml into the opening with a dropper or syringe and the wick will absorb it and you might have a mixed scent for the first time but on the second one it will be all GYA sandalwood oil from Amazon for $9.99, in my case literally and figuratively! Don’t forget to remove the temporary wedge.

You will break the cartridge if you take it apart to the wick, but the outer shell should hold the inner shell together, I would not have reinstalled it if I didn’t feel comfortable. I will however use my other non-deconstructed expired cartridge and try below to avoid leaks from the broken plastic on the guinea pig cartridge.

Use my learnings and skip the deconstruction; just stick a plastic tooth pick in as a wedge on one of the half moon gaskets after pushing the spring plunger down, and use the dropper and/or syringe to fill it up without needing to take anything apart.