Air Con/Climate control in this really hot weather

peter_the_piper

Picanto is even simpler, just press the AC button. Temp is at cold anyway so nothing to change.

Stoke

My Audi A4 had reasonable climate control. Not amazing but it worked. My dads Passat has analogue AC and it's utterly useless. It's not worth switching on.

My girlfriend has a Peugeot 206CC, roof down or climate control. Climate control is ice cold.

AdrianC

"Climate control" is simply how automated the controls are. Whether you put a numerical temperature in, or it's red-blue-hot-cold. Whether the flaps are automated or not. Whether the fan speed is automated or not.

Aircon is how the ambient air is cooled and dried. It might be with climate, it might not. The control system doesn't affect the efficiency, only the ease of setting and pointing.

Quite simply, if it has aircon (with or without climate), and it won't blow properly cold, then it's broken.

AndyPix

roddydogs wrote: »

. PS their's nothing wrong with it, .

There clearly is


Im shivvering if i have mine on for more than 10 minutes


Get it re-gassed

takman

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Picanto is even simpler, just press the AC button. Temp is at cold anyway so nothing to change.

What do you mean you just press the AC button?. You must also have to change the temperature or you will have to keep turning it on and off to maintain the correct temperature?.

Mine doesn't even need to have an AC button it is on all the time as default and you just adjust the temperature with the dial and it will cool or heat automatically to reach that temperature.

You really can't get any simpler than one dial which i don't even have to touch because it is already set at my preferred temperature.

Also i think not having an AC button is much better because when there is a button most people won't use it for 8+ months a year; which causes most of the problems people have when they find it doesn't work when they do come to use it.

Stoke

AdrianC wrote: »

"Climate control" is simply how automated the controls are. Whether you put a numerical temperature in, or it's red-blue-hot-cold. Whether the flaps are automated or not. Whether the fan speed is automated or not.

Aircon is how the ambient air is cooled and dried. It might be with climate, it might not. The control system doesn't affect the efficiency, only the ease of setting and pointing.

Quite simply, if it has aircon (with or without climate), and it won't blow properly cold, then it's broken.

Or like my dads car, the compressor is too small for the car.

mattyprice4004

Thread summary: OP bought a crap car, and thinks every car in the UK is the same.

Pipe down, it's just your A/C that's poor. Mine is fantastic in both of mine.

BeenThroughItAll

Sam_Fallow wrote: »

Short journeys = windows open (and sunroof)

Longer runs = air con on.

These days it's worth getting in the car just to cool down
This afternoon I was out on my motorbike, nothing beats that.

I went out on my bike several times over the weekend, and I totally disagree. I'd rather sit in the car with the AC on than boil in leathers. Even moving at speed you never get cooled down.

facade

takman wrote: »

Also i think not having an AC button is much better because when there is a button most people won't use it for 8+ months a year; which causes most of the problems people have when they find it doesn't work when they do come to use it.

Mine are always on all the time, they simply break at about 2500 hours running. This has happened twice now in consecutive vehicles.

Unfortunately modern vehicles are so aerodynamic that opening all the windows does absolutely nothing.

What I need is a nice sunroof to pop open at the back and suck all the hot air out through the roof as the air slides over the top.

EdGasketTheSecond

AdrianC wrote: »

Go on, what car?

Very few compressors pull more than about 5-10bhp. It must be VERY underpowered for that to be an issue.

Mercedes C180; also notice it on my Hyundai Lantra. Some people claim (falsely) that running air-con costs nothing; I beg to differ as it is obviously loading the engine and that extra power has to be paid for somehow i.e. increased petrol consumption. The load did seem worse in the recent hot spell so I assume the compressor is having to work harder with corresponding extra load on the engine. The air is nice and cool though.