asemaster April 28 Report
"They didn’t provide any way to start moving in second gear in icy weather.
This is the way the majority of automatic transmissions operate. Does your car not have traction control?"
Traction control doesn’t act until the wheels have already started to slip, making the ice slicker. Second gear start acts before the wheels slip.
"- On my old car, in mild weather, I always left the defroster on with a low fan speed. I like indirect air. This car makes me manually select the defroster every time I start the engine, and then it turns the blower on high.
This does seem annoying, but what does the climate control default to at every start? If I remember correctly, it should retain the previous settings."
It automatically selects the outlets based on the outside temperature. But I do not want it directing cold air on my feet before the engine warms up. I have to go through a menu to manually select the outlet each time iI start the engine.
"- When the defroster is on, and in some other seemingly unspecified cases, it won’t let me choose fully internal air circulation without first choosing another air delivery outlet. But when there is a dead skunk on the road ahead, I want fully internal air NOW.
Recirc should never be available in defrost mode, and every car with a system that is not operated solely by cables and levers will not allow recirc and defrost simultaneously. Recirc will just fog up the windows in the rain, just the opposite of what you want."
I just want it for a few seconds, until the skunk is way behind me. The way it is, I have to go through a menu to select an outlet before applying recirc. I should not be doing this while driving.
The engineers must live where skunks are not.
"- It won’t let me choose an air temperature below 60F. Sometimes I want colder air on the passenger side to keep frozen food cold for the long trip home from the store.
Actually, setting the temp to 60 IS “max” cooling, the same as keeping the dial all the way cold on a manual system. You do want recirc for this."
It won’t even let me bring cold outside air in. It heats the air to 60 degrees. When I am in a winter coat, I don’t want it to heat the air that warm, or I fry inside the coat. But I will freeze if I take the coat off, and then get out. There is not room in the seat to put on or take off a coat.