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Old 10-01-2013, 07:49 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by strat61caster View Post
14k+ miles, the A/C only cycles on and off when the A/C button is pushed or the defroster is on, you can hear it at an idle, you can hear the belt chirp (lots of threads made on that 'issue') and you can feel the load on the motor, I don't notice it all the time (my attention is usually elsewhere) but I have yet to feel or hear it unless the proper setting is engaged. Even on max cold the compressor isn't running all the time, as you noticed with your Toyota. I thought you had implied that the compressor will kick on even if say you had it set to warm air from outside, did I misread you?
OK we agree. That's good because I was going into the someone is wrong on the internet mode

I think you did misread me or maybe I misread mitosis. He wrote, "and at no point is the AC compressor just gonna turn on on it's own whim." Anyway it doesn't matter. He thought he had complete control over the HVAC, I thought he didn't...
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