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I've never used the auto climate control setting on my cars. Like you experienced it always seems to start full blast to do a quick cool down but never really gets it right. I use the manual settings most of the time
I have a 2015 Hyundai Sonata and a 2016 Chevy Silverado and the auto climate works great in both of them. Set it and forget it.
I have a 2015 Hyundai Sonata and a 2016 Chevy Silverado and the auto climate works great in both of them. Set it and forget it.
Could be. But I see you're in AK. Where I live it can get to 95-100 in the summers. Inside the cabin over 100 easy. This throws off the sensors in my cars and have them go full blast where a gradual cool down would do. And it keeps it at full blast for seemingly the full ride.
If these things are so terrible, and I don't doubt that they are, why in the WORLD are they doing this? Do they have any brains at all? Have they ever tried using these things while driving?
Besides that, yes, I'm a control freak, so if I want the AC turned off, TURN IT OFF. Period. I don't care if doing so means I will grow a purple mole on my male area and become impotent and my children will be shot, DO IT ANYWAY, I'm in charge here. I would be appalled at paying tens of thousands of dollars for a car only for it to insist on doing what it THINKS is right rather than what I TELL IT to do.
But hey, what do I know, our "best" car is a 2005 Pontiac Vibe, it even uses "classic" keys not chipped ones. The only annoying thing it was doing was "escalating" the seat belt alarm, I figured out how to make it shut the heck up after 5 seconds. Most times I do buckle, it's the wise thing to do, but I don't want or need to be aggravated into it, I'll buckle when I'm good and well ready and not a millisecond sooner.
Could be. But I see you're in AK. Where I live it can get to 95-100 in the summers. Inside the cabin over 100 easy. This throws off the sensors in my cars and have them go full blast where a gradual cool down would do. And it keeps it at full blast for seemingly the full ride.
Both vehicles have been to Arizona. When I drove the Hyundai up to Alaska I saw temps of 118 degrees. Car was still nice and cool inside.
I had a Silverado that was loaded with what they consider "Goodies", but to me were a PITA, I thought I would like them. Always had to take your eyes off the road to see what the systems were set at, and the Wife couldn't work half the stuff, so when she wanted a change, I had to do while driving. My new truck, is pretty basic, a lot easier to work with.....just what I wanted, let them keep the "Goodies"
If these things are so terrible, and I don't doubt that they are, why in the WORLD are they doing this? Do they have any brains at all? Have they ever tried using these things while driving?
Besides that, yes, I'm a control freak, so if I want the AC turned off, TURN IT OFF. Period. I don't care if doing so means I will grow a purple mole on my male area and become impotent and my children will be shot, DO IT ANYWAY, I'm in charge here. I would be appalled at paying tens of thousands of dollars for a car only for it to insist on doing what it THINKS is right rather than what I TELL IT to do.
But hey, what do I know, our "best" car is a 2005 Pontiac Vibe, it even uses "classic" keys not chipped ones. The only annoying thing it was doing was "escalating" the seat belt alarm, I figured out how to make it shut the heck up after 5 seconds. Most times I do buckle, it's the wise thing to do, but I don't want or need to be aggravated into it, I'll buckle when I'm good and well ready and not a millisecond sooner.
I suspect part of the reason is weight saving and dashboard design. Compare the weight of one touch screen to the weight of a stereo head unit and HVAC control unit. While the weight difference is minimal, every little bit counts. Having all controls on a touch screen means freeing up the dashboard fordesigners to play with.
I've never used the auto climate control setting on my cars. Like you experienced it always seems to start full blast to do a quick cool down but never really gets it right. I use the manual settings most of the time
I've never used the manual settings in my BMWs. Auto works just fine and I don't have to think about it. I have it set to 70 degrees and if it's colder out, it warms the car up and if it's warmer out, it cools the car down, and most of the time you don't even know it's running. I don't know why people are bitching that it's trying to do it's job by cooling the car down from high temps. Seems kind of petty complaining just to hear yourself complain, to me. Like some sort of competition to see who can be the least tolerant person on the board...
Never had auto HVAC. Content to leave it that way. Easier to fix when it breaks, even if it's redneck engineering. Someday I'm sure I'll have the touchscreen setups. Not looking forward to it, but maybe it'll work great then, never break, etc. Personally I like being a few generations behind in the tech. Let someone else debug it and drive the cost down.
When I bought my Camry I was tickled pink making new keys for it. It was like $2.50 for each key. Granted no one would want to steal my car so it doesn't need to be locked. But boy was I happy. Guess you could say, I'd rather own a car no one would want to steal than own a car that needs high end keys to prevent stealing. Simple is good.
Speaking of HVAC, I've always disliked how defrost and a/c is tied together, along with recirculate. If I want to be bad and set it to recirc with defrost and a/c off... why can't I? To be fair, that's what I use in the dead of winter to melt ice if scraping isn't an option, no worries about moisture buildup as I'm not in the car while this happens. Similarly, sometimes in summer I want defrost on the windshield, to blow moisture off, no recirculate but no a/c as I don't need/want ac. Just some airflow would work. But no, someone smarter than me thinks I don't need/want that...
Never had auto HVAC. Content to leave it that way. Easier to fix when it breaks, even if it's redneck engineering.
Some of you guys are way too worried about stuff breaking. it's never been a problem even on my BMW that's 16 years old and has 170k miles on it.
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Speaking of HVAC, I've always disliked how defrost and a/c is tied together, along with recirculate. If I want to be bad and set it to recirc with defrost and a/c off... why can't I? To be fair, that's what I use in the dead of winter to melt ice if scraping isn't an option, no worries about moisture buildup as I'm not in the car while this happens. Similarly, sometimes in summer I want defrost on the windshield, to blow moisture off, no recirculate but no a/c as I don't need/want ac. Just some airflow would work. But no, someone smarter than me thinks I don't need/want that...
Air conditioning does exactly what it sounds like: it conditions the air. By using the conditioned air to defog/defrost, you are using air that has had the moisture removed to do the work, which is more rapid and efficient than using the ambient, moisture filled air. Pretty simple.
Again, I think it comes down to people that don't know what they are doing complaining about systems they don't understand instead of actually learning something new.
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