Car temperature fools

[V8Granite]

Normally we leave ours at 21, unless its incredibly hot and we didn't put the windscreen shade up.

But......I use airport taxis at least 12 times a year and notice the following....

People who turn it off completely, who needs air in the car.

People who then panic when you ask for some air in the back, they then turn it at max speed at full hot or full cold, depending on the time of year.

Ones who see you adjust the speed up, down, temp up, temp down etc. Then instantly notice youve turned it in that direction and decide to go full fan or full temp.

Any taxi driven by someone born in a hot climate, 25 degrees is not a sensible uk car temp.

Ones who instead of waiting 30 seconds to de-mist, instead rub the windscreen giving themselves a smeary view out for the rest of the day.

Anyone getting into a car with a wet coat and then wondering why the car is misting up.

Dave!

[dinny_g]

Air Con is set to Low (16 degrees) for 11 months of the year - I may allow 18 degrees in the depths of winter but only in the mornings. During the day - it's Low... always

My Dad always collects us from Dublin Airport when we go home and as soon as we get into the car, he sets the heater to 28 and the fans to full - even though for the past 25 years, I've immediately had to remind him my other half suffers from migraine so he has to turn it down.

[mik]

Air Con is set to Low (16 degrees) for 11 months of the year - I may allow 18 degrees in the depths of winter but only in the mornings. During the day - it's Low... always

Good grief - why? Do you only ever drive in a goose-down onesie?

Or do you have it set to Low, but with the fan turned down low so it never actually reaches 16?

[dinny_g]

No not really, I'm just a warmer person.

there are only 2 radiators in our 4 bed house that are not isolated OFF . The living room and my sons room, And heating won't go no now until at least mid November and then, for no more than an hour each evening

[GG.]

Do your cars have not air conditioning? That's the only fathomable reason for having them set to "Lo"

This is a perennial problem with London uber drivers who pretty much always have the a/c and sometime all the climate turned to off to save 1mpg. Pretty irritating if you're in an Uber Exec and paying through the nose for it. Typically being English I rarely complain.

[Matty]

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there are only 2 radiators in our 4 bed house that are not isolated OFF . The living room and my sons room, And heating won't go no now until at least mid November and then, for no more than an hour each evening

I read this in the voice of competitive dad from The Fast Show

Only two rads? For an hour? In a 4 bed house? In winter? Are you and your family particularly hairy?

[mik]

Are you and your family particularly hairy?

glol

I'm happiest at 21-22 DegC

[Mito Man]

Do your cars have not air conditioning? That's the only fathomable reason for having them set to "Lo"

This is a perennial problem with London uber drivers who pretty much always have the a/c and sometime all the climate turned to off to save 1mpg. Pretty irritating if you're in an Uber Exec and paying through the nose for it. Typically being English I rarely complain.

The hybrid black cabs are terrible for it too. Middle of the heatwave I get into the cab which must be 40 degrees and ask him to turn the AC on. He says he can only do it for a bit as it kills the range on his car

Between the radicalised Uber drivers who can’t drive and the rip off black cabs I can’t wait for Waymo or some other self driving cars to get legalised.

[V8Granite]

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there are only 2 radiators in our 4 bed house that are not isolated OFF . The living room and my sons room, And heating won't go no now until at least mid November and then, for no more than an hour each evening

I read this in the voice of competitive dad from The Fast Show

Only two rads? For an hour? In a 4 bed house? In winter? Are you and your family particularly hairy?

That sounds like our house in the winter, but we have the fire going all day and it's a toasty 23 degrees in the living room, aka sleepy town

Dave!