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Old 10-06-2013, 03:46 PM   #120
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external circulation opens "automatically" on 2013

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Originally Posted by Anaxilus View Post
I'm just glad I can defog the windshield w/o the car opening up external circulation on its own. That shit pisses me off.
Well, not completely automatically, but if the vent selector knob is turned more than one mark from vertical towards the defrost setting, the internal circulation control appears to be bypassed. Setting the vent "one mark to the right" (almost everything coming out the floor vents) works okay, but it's slower than blowing only on the windshield and has a harder time keeping up. And in a thunderstorm with crazy bad visibility and associated high humidity it's definitely more dangerous than it should be. Seems like bad design to me.

My Gen 5 prelude got it right --- automatically turned on the a/c but let the driver control the circulation.
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