Hi,
I recently bought a used 2000 sentra and am fairly pleased with it. There is a feature that this car has that's really annoying that I'd like to disable if possible?
When I select venting for the front window on the HVAC selector dial I notice that my air conditioning goes on. In general, I am not a huge fan of using air-conditioning and don't really need it all that often, seeing as how I live in the mostly chilly northeast U.S. I can understand, I suppose, why the designers might have hard-wired this into the system but I don't understand why they don't leave it up to the driver whether or not A/C is required for defogging the front window. Often times, just applying some heated air takes care of fogging problems. In extreme cases I have in the past, in other vehicles, switched on the A/C to clear things up quicker.
The biggest reason why this feature is annoying is because when the A/C is turned on, I notice a reduced performance in the vehicle, which is my experience with all other cars. The car lags a little, presumably because more juice needs to be applied to conditioning air. I'd much rather apply this extra juice to the engine than to my front window.
Has anyone else observed this feature or is this an anomaly and a bug in my system? Is it possible to disable this feature?
Thanks, bb