I will check the condensate drain as Deke suggested, but had not been
experiencing any issues over the summer when the AC ran regularly and
there
was always a puddle of water under the front passenger side of the
vehicle.
With every other vehicle I have ever owned, I have been able to use the
"heat" (floor outlet) or vent (dash outlet) settings, even in super-cold
weather. Occasionally I might need to run the defroster or select a
setting
that provided a mix of both floor and defrost to clear the wind****eld, but
this car is completely different! If I even attempt to turn the control
knob to any other setting other than full defrost mode, my wind****eld and
side windows frost over and I lose visibility. In addition, no matter how
long I run the defroster when it is really cold outside (below zero F),
even
to the point where the front wind****eld and both side front windows are
completely clear, and it is actually uncomfortable because it is so warm
in
the car, the rear windows will still stay completely frosted over. I can
run the electric rear window defogger and this clears the rear window so
there is visibility, but the rear side windows just never seem to clear up
at all.
I really think that there must be some other source for this moisture, but
I
simply can't find it! If it is not the coolant, and not from the
passengers, and not already in the trapped air in the vehicle (which is
also
sub-zero so should be very dry), then where does it come from? By the
way,
it has done this since I've owned it (4 years), but only gets really
annoying when the temperatures dip to around zero F. Unfortunately, this
winter is just plain cold so it is worse than it has been the last few
years. As additional info. I'm getting ready to hand down this vehicle to
my son this Spring and would like to solve this permanently so that he
does
not have this trouble next winter.
Bob
"aarcuda69062" <nonelson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:nonelson-206B3D.07074512022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <61dachF1t3vvcU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Bill Putney <bptn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Bob Shuman wrote:
>> > Bill,
>> >
>> > As always, thanks for your thoughts...
>>
>> Thanks, Bob.
>>
>> > Only when the setting is moved to defrost and after the wind****eld
and
>> > side
>> > windows warm sufficiently does the condensation stop and I get
regular
>> > visibility.
>>
>> I'm thinking that that sentence is the key to your problem. You need
to
>> put it in defrost from the start. No - there won't be any heat at that
>> point, but the a.c. will run to pull moisture out of the air - that's
>> how it is designed to work. You're not allowing the system to do its
>> job.
>>
>> Glenn - others - aren't I right on that?
>
> Yup.
> No different than how my 98 was behaving on Sunday when
> temperatures were similar. (-9)
> Got to warm the wind****eld enough that inside moisture doesn't
> condense, you can switch to dash vents and aim the two outboard
> ones at the side windows but then the wind****eld starts to fog up.
> Lot of square inches to the LH wind****eld...
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