The temperature inside your car??

[Coxy]

This one confuses me and I'm probably not alone, but here we go.

In summer, when it's nice and hot outside, I get in the car and slap the temperature to 16c, turn the air con and and put the fan on setting 4 to cool down, yet in the winter, I get in the car, whack up the temp to 28c, turn the fan to high again and enjoy driving in absurd heat!

Now is it just me or surely there should be a temperature which the inside of a car should be comfortable 'all seasons'?

Let's face it, when I get in my car tomorrow, I'm not about to turn the air con on and set the temp to 16c and I doubt anyone else will either!

[Isimmo]

Originally Posted by Coxy

This one confuses me and I'm probably not alone, but here we go.

In summer, when it's nice and hot outside, I get in the car and slap the temperature to 16c, turn the air con and and put the fan on setting 4 to cool down, yet in the winter, I get in the car, whack up the temp to 28c, turn the fan to high again and enjoy driving in absurd heat!

Now is it just me or surely there should be a temperature which the inside of a car should be comfortable 'all seasons'?

Let's face it, when I get in my car tomorrow, I'm not about to turn the air con on and set the temp to 16c and I doubt anyone else will either!

18deg

Turn the Aircon on, then put the heater/cool air temp knob to the bit where the blue becomes the red. Set a Fan speed of 1.

That'll be fine...

[Booty]

Or just hit the 'auto' button on the V8 and set the temp......as you say..simples. By the way, you must have gone off like a Bastard in the 90 tonight around the back of the unit????!!!

[pimpdriver]

23C in the Caravelle......

[Ben]

I'm on 22 with a slightly grilled bum heating seat setting of 1.

[steveb]

18 in the summer 22 -24 in the winte,r air con (climate) on all the time the handbook suggests 22 for all year ('97 caravelle )

[Coxy]

Originally Posted by Booty

Or just hit the 'auto' button on the V8 and set the temp......as you say..simples. By the way, you must have gone off like a Bastard in the 90 tonight around the back of the unit????!!!

just getting the gravel drift sorted! I'll hit the fir trees one day!

[Isimmo]

Originally Posted by Coxy

just getting the gravel drift sorted! I'll hit the fir trees one day!

Do you remember this chap with the V8 a couple of years ago at CC...

YouTube- Audi V8 Proper Drift

YouTube- Audi V8 Proper Drift

Saw the inside of the Stewards office several times during the day...

[Tim C]

Originally Posted by Coxy

This one confuses me and I'm probably not alone, but here we go.

In summer, when it's nice and hot outside, I get in the car and slap the temperature to 16c, turn the air con and and put the fan on setting 4 to cool down, yet in the winter, I get in the car, whack up the temp to 28c, turn the fan to high again and enjoy driving in absurd heat!

You are not alone.

I design and build control systems, a large proportion of which are "Building Management Systems". BMS's are complicated heating controls that you may have seen in a large control panel in commercial or industrial building boiler rooms.

We can very accurately maintain the temperaure within a building, given the appropriate plant. However, (with a big capital H) the biggest variable and to be frank, pain in the arse, is people. Everyones perception and threshhold for temperature is different. A building will normally be maintained at 21 degrees throughout the year. On sunny July day with clear blue skies and bright sunshine people will be quite comfortable. On a bleak, cloudy winters day people will feel cold. Your mind's perception of temperature is influenced by more than just the ambient temperature! The primeval bit of your brain doesn't realise that you are cocooned in a well heated box.

On more than one occasion I have tried to gauge opinion of the temperature in a building by asking various occupants. Answers will range from boiling to freezing and just right.. At these times the best thing to do is retire to the boiler room, do sweet FA and tell them to call if there are any further problems. They are usually quite happy after that.

Rant over - I think I've been doing this job too long. Hope that helped anyway.

[amanda]

Originally Posted by Coxy

In summer, when it's nice and hot outside, I get in the car and slap the temperature to 16c, turn the air con and and put the fan on setting 4 to cool down, yet in the winter, I get in the car, whack up the temp to 28c, turn the fan to high again and enjoy driving in absurd heat!

Hmmmm why not just turn the A/C off and open the windows?