Ventilated Seats
#41
A different perspective:
Up here in the Seattle area it doesn't get extreme 3-digit temps very often, but this past summer we had a heat wave with 110 degrees. A black car sitting in this heat can be brutal inside. 110 degrees outside and about 125 degrees inside. Wasn't a huge issue, really. Selected LO for the temperature control, and in about 3 minutes the car was starting to feel decent, and after 5 minutes it was cool enough to be tolerated then pressed the temp control to my usual 66 degrees and all was good. Even my back seat passenger was comfortable with his air vents blasting away. I'm not sure what the criteria is to gauge and give a score for how efficient air-conditioning is, but in 110 degree weather, ANY cool air is a good thing...
Up here in the Seattle area it doesn't get extreme 3-digit temps very often, but this past summer we had a heat wave with 110 degrees. A black car sitting in this heat can be brutal inside. 110 degrees outside and about 125 degrees inside. Wasn't a huge issue, really. Selected LO for the temperature control, and in about 3 minutes the car was starting to feel decent, and after 5 minutes it was cool enough to be tolerated then pressed the temp control to my usual 66 degrees and all was good. Even my back seat passenger was comfortable with his air vents blasting away. I'm not sure what the criteria is to gauge and give a score for how efficient air-conditioning is, but in 110 degree weather, ANY cool air is a good thing...
#42
A different perspective:
Up here in the Seattle area it doesn't get extreme 3-digit temps very often, but this past summer we had a heat wave with 110 degrees. A black car sitting in this heat can be brutal inside. 110 degrees outside and about 125 degrees inside. Wasn't a huge issue, really. Selected LO for the temperature control, and in about 3 minutes the car was starting to feel decent, and after 5 minutes it was cool enough to be tolerated then pressed the temp control to my usual 66 degrees and all was good. Even my back seat passenger was comfortable with his air vents blasting away. I'm not sure what the criteria is to gauge and give a score for how efficient air-conditioning is, but in 110 degree weather, ANY cool air is a good thing...
Up here in the Seattle area it doesn't get extreme 3-digit temps very often, but this past summer we had a heat wave with 110 degrees. A black car sitting in this heat can be brutal inside. 110 degrees outside and about 125 degrees inside. Wasn't a huge issue, really. Selected LO for the temperature control, and in about 3 minutes the car was starting to feel decent, and after 5 minutes it was cool enough to be tolerated then pressed the temp control to my usual 66 degrees and all was good. Even my back seat passenger was comfortable with his air vents blasting away. I'm not sure what the criteria is to gauge and give a score for how efficient air-conditioning is, but in 110 degree weather, ANY cool air is a good thing...
Here in Southern AZ, temps like that are not unusual, but all homes have cooling. Of all the cars I have owned here, the RDX was not the best for cooling, but it certainly worked. You found the secret, setting the AC to LO, fresh outside air, with perhaps a window open to exhaust the hot air to help cool the car, then "auto" at what ever temp you usually use. And seat ventilators set to high.
Last edited by JB in AZ; 09-10-2021 at 06:28 PM.
#43
About a month ago I went to get fish tacos with a female friend up on the North Shore. It was in the upper 80's with low humidity. Car was sitting out in the sun with the sunshade closed, as there were no trees to park it under. After eating for about an hour outdoors (comfortable enough that my sweaty ass wasn't sweating), we got back in the car. Obviously, it was hot, A/C already turned to Lo (where it's almost always set) and I cranked up the fan. After a couple minutes of driving, even my female friend made a mention of how shitty the A/C is in the car. We opened the windows as it was basically doing as good of a job at cooling.
The air coming out of the vents is cold, it's just that it doesn't do a good job of actually cooling the cabin. I don't know what it is, though I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the bullshit panoramic sunroof.
The air coming out of the vents is cold, it's just that it doesn't do a good job of actually cooling the cabin. I don't know what it is, though I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the bullshit panoramic sunroof.
#44
I can't even begin to imagine the difficult time you guys had during that heat wave! I assume that most homes there do not have AC.
Here in Southern AZ, temps like that are not unusual, but all homes have cooling. Of all the cars I have owned here, the RDX was not the best for cooling, but it certainly worked. You found the secret, setting the AC to LO, fresh outside air, with perhaps a window open to exhaust the hot air to help cool the car, then "auto" at what ever temp you usually use. And seat ventilators set to high.
Here in Southern AZ, temps like that are not unusual, but all homes have cooling. Of all the cars I have owned here, the RDX was not the best for cooling, but it certainly worked. You found the secret, setting the AC to LO, fresh outside air, with perhaps a window open to exhaust the hot air to help cool the car, then "auto" at what ever temp you usually use. And seat ventilators set to high.
At any rate, it's a helluva lot better than back in the old days (the 70s) when our cars didn't have A/C, at least the ones we could afford didn't.
#45
About a month ago I went to get fish tacos with a female friend up on the North Shore. It was in the upper 80's with low humidity. Car was sitting out in the sun with the sunshade closed, as there were no trees to park it under. After eating for about an hour outdoors (comfortable enough that my sweaty ass wasn't sweating), we got back in the car. Obviously, it was hot, A/C already turned to Lo (where it's almost always set) and I cranked up the fan. After a couple minutes of driving, even my female friend made a mention of how shitty the A/C is in the car. We opened the windows as it was basically doing as good of a job at cooling.
The air coming out of the vents is cold, it's just that it doesn't do a good job of actually cooling the cabin. I don't know what it is, though I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the bullshit panoramic sunroof.
The air coming out of the vents is cold, it's just that it doesn't do a good job of actually cooling the cabin. I don't know what it is, though I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the bullshit panoramic sunroof.
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