My HVAC - hot, cold, and not much else . . .

[Chippy]

I have the opposite, it just takes forever for the engine to heat up and the heater gets luke warm at best. I was wondering if this was normal for these cars or not.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by chaoskaze

To be honest the best thing in the car is the seat warmer.....

BTW I don't know why but I hear you talking in this voice.

Why is it that all the guys that live in the hot places like the seat warmer but the ones where it actually gets cold usually don't?

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by billwot

I'm not "in the business", but I do have a state HVAC Engineer's license, and I keep a small back-stem dial thermometer in the center vent of all of my vehicles. I only have the standard HAVC system in my FRS.

On a 90F summer with the A/C on, I can modulate the air temp from the vent anywhere between about 42F to about 85F.

On a 30 F winter day with the heat on, I can modulate the air temp from the vent from about 40F to 80F.

Why don't you just modulate the air temperature in your cars when you "feel" hot or cold .......

edit: Oh, I missed the part about you having an engineers license, that explains it ......

(jest ah messen wich ya)


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Chippy

I have the opposite, it just takes forever for the engine to heat up and the heater gets luke warm at best. I was wondering if this was normal for these cars or not.

WELCOME .......Chippy ......to posting to the forum .....

I've found that my FR-S is a bit slow for the engine to warm up and even slower for the heater to be able to blow warm air.

In the winter (maybe 35 degrees F) I can drive into town (about 2 miles) and the heater is still blowing cool air. If I stop and do a quick errand and start off again, it seems really warm. I reckon it just likes to heat soak a bit.

As long as warm as eventually comes out of the vents, I reckon your heater is working normally.


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Why is it that all the guys that live in the hot places like the seat warmer but the ones where it actually gets cold usually don't?

Maybe because the guys that live in hot places have skinny asses .......


humfrz

[arrow34]

Originally Posted by Chippy

I have the opposite, it just takes forever for the engine to heat up and the heater gets luke warm at best. I was wondering if this was normal for these cars or not.

I have the opposite problem. Once my car is heated up it heats up to the point I have to turn the heat down. My frs gets waaay to warm. Plus in the late summer/fall(only one so far) it was blowing warm air on full cold without a/c running.

[nextcar]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Why is it that all the guys that live in the hot places like the seat warmer but the ones where it actually gets cold usually don't?

Because we don't have cold weather clothes!!!!

[Chippy]

Originally Posted by humfrz

WELCOME .......Chippy ......to posting to the forum .....

I've found that my FR-S is a bit slow for the engine to warm up and even slower for the heater to be able to blow warm air.

In the winter (maybe 35 degrees F) I can drive into town (about 2 miles) and the heater is still blowing cool air. If I stop and do a quick errand and start off again, it seems really warm. I reckon it just likes to heat soak a bit.

As long as warm as eventually comes out of the vents, I reckon your heater is working normally.


humfrz

Thx for the info. I wont worry about it at this point.

[danman2_2999]

Do you guys notice the heated seats are very intermittent? Sometimes I can drive for ten minutes before they turn on. Also they seem to get hot and then turn off for a while. My girl's RAV4 has heated seats that work great, they heat up fast and stay heated until you turn it off.

Love the heated seats, and I too am in SoCal.