My Nissan Altima has no OFF button for the air/fan/heater/AC unit.
There’s buttons for Fan, for AC, for Recirulate, and a row of choices where to blow. Middle, middle and feet, middle and defrost, feet and defrost, just feet, and just defrost.
The assholes left out OFF!
You turn off the fan you still get a fair breeze at freeway speed. You can deflect it to feet and defrost, but it still blows. So you can turn off recirculate, and then it just trickles in a little air.
So at night, when it’s set like that for least air, I still have 3 dash lights lit for recirc, for feet/defrost, and one showing my temp is set to Min.
What? Why is OFF not the most obvious choice?
Maybe I’m lucky. If I did have an off button the turds would probably make it flash and beep like the seatbelt light, so I’d be warned nothing was on.
My Toyota is the same way. If you turn the fan off but leave the vents for fresh air you get blown on.
Try turning the setting to recirculated air and see if that helps.
Osip
PS I do still believe it is a fucked up situation.
It all a conspiracy I tell ya. :D:D Actually, it is what car makers like to call “flow through ventilation”. Most auto manufacturers have something along the same lines, at least in the newer cars.
I’ll second Osip – My MR2 will blow air through, even with the fan off, if set to bring in air from the outside. Set it to recirculate air and there is no “breeze”
but, then, I almost always drive with the T-tops off and the windows down, so I dont really notice
You know, when I saw the thread title, I wondered, “what the heck does this have to do with The Simpsons?” since on the internet (espcially alt.tv.simpsons), people often refer to them as OFF, or Our Favorite Family.
Some time back, some car makers, unable apparently to make safer cars, or at least their exhaust systems, decided to have a continually running fan to blow fresh air into the cabin. However, they neglected to do this on the 1986 Isuzu Pup, long bed, large engine because some of them somehow managed to suck exhaust gasses into the cab when the back window port was open. That was the model which came without a/c, of course, so you had to ride with all windows open. It mainly happened if you put a cap on the bed.
I secretly figure that any time car makers put things in cars that run automatically, like the newer ‘road lights’, those electric radiator fans, digital dashboard, and blowers – they do so in order to generate more money in repair bills because not only will those things burn out quicker, but help wear out the battery.
Imagine trying to start your car with a low battery when those damn road lights cut on and the blower cuts in!
My peeve is, why all the funky buttons for ‘where to blow’? It has ‘in your face’, ‘on your feet’, ‘in your face and on your feet’, ‘on the windshield’, and ‘on the windshield and on your feet’. It should just have buttons for ‘on your feet’, ‘in your face’, and ‘on the windshield’. You can then activate wind anywhere you want by combining buttons.
Then, it should have a single control for vent vs. recirc. Stupid american cars with their ‘max ac’, ‘economy’, etc. What the hell does that mean? Just let me control where the freaking air is coming from!
Also, a single on/off for the A/C compressor so you can run it in any configuration. Again ‘economy’ vs. ‘a/c’ is stupid, in my mom’s car you can’t get ‘economy’ in combination with ‘bi-level’ (in your face and on your feet.)
Finally, a single sliding control for temperature - most cars already have this.
My Toyota is about the best I’ve seen, the only problem it has is the slidy control that lets you pick between ‘in your face’, ‘in your face and on your feet’, etc. It has the recirc/vent and A/C compressor switches, so I’m mainly happy. That evil Chrysler minivan my mom drives just sucks, though.
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