On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:58:53 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 2:19:18 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 2/25/2016 11:54 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:




When driving the vehicle with the fully automatic climate control,
there needs to be some tweaking done in occasion as conditions change,
such as sunshine, outside temperature, etc. I'm talking about
during a given driving session, not day-to-day.

In other words, there is no such thing as "set it and forget it"
in any of the vehicles, automatic or manual. The automatic climate
control is not like a house thermostat where it maintains fairly
consistent conditions. There are too many variables associated with
a moving vehicle for the climate control system (at least mine) to
be a completely hands-off system.

I beg to differ. My last two cars (2013, 2015) have been amazingly
accurate. Once to temperature, they take care of any adjusting for sun
load, humidity, whatever. I never touch the controls all winter or all
summer when I keep it a few degrees warmer.

It sure could be the age of the vehicles. Mine is an '06.

7 - 10 years is a long time in car age, technology wise.


My 02 is pretty consistent too. (Ford) The '96 Mystique was good too.
So was the '88 New Yorker. Even the climate control on the 85 LeBaron
was pretty good - but on the 2600cc 4banger you could feel when the AC
cycled.


My present car I bought on Sept 28. I adjusted the control the next day
and have not touched it since. My wife a couple of times has turned up
the temp on her side, but I just set it back by touching the sync button
when she it not with me. My last car was the same. I do recall a couple
of older cars where I did twek a bit though.

Oh, it also turns the defroster on when needed too. Only once did I do
that manually. It senses the windshield ready to fog.

Only thing I do when the car is still cold is turn on the heated seats
and heated steering wheel, but after 10 minutes, I turn them off too.
It kept the temperature just as good at 12 below too!