Issues with Climate Control

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19 years ago

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 5:12 AM

Recently I switched from a 91 to a 2000 Maxima. To my disappointment,

2000 Maxima's climate control does not have an option of cool air circulation through top vents (you can't have hot air supplied to your feet, and cool air to your face). I also noticed that interior windows of 2000 fog up easily when driving in temperatures below -15c. Can anything be done to deal with fogging issue? And does anybody know why 2000 does not have cool air circulation? It was an awesome feature, and I can't see why they would remove it... Thanks!

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19 years ago

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 2:33 PM

There's an icon on the climate control system, it shows a person sitting with 2 arrows, one pointing straight ahead at the person's upper body and the other pointing down at the feet. If you push that button and set the tempurature, varying somewhere between hot and cold, you will find that the warmer air will be pushed to your feet and the cooler air will come out of the vents.

As for fogging issue, it could simply be as a result of the 2000 Maxima's glass area being much larger than the 91's, so the 2000 will be affected by outside tempuratures more, and hence tend to produce condensation more which is the fogging of the windows. Putting the AC system on, in hot or cold mode, will clear that up.

HTH

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19 years ago

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 4:50 PM

If it is any consolation, my 2K maxima is also very susceptible to window fog problem in cold. If I drive my 94 Integra with recirculate on and AC on, windows rarely fog up even on cold days, whereas my Maxima fogs up routinely on recirculate even with AC on. It is very annoying but I have learned to just with it by switching to fresh air periodically. I wish I could switch to defog mode on climate control without it switching to fresh air automatically as well. Defog with recirculate on and AC on just might do better.

============= Khalid Aziz