Do any cars not mist up inside in winter?

My theory is that it's the rise of climate control that's to blame for that. To save cost, climate control systems don't have any positive way of shutting off "ram air". All they can do to control airflow is change the fan speed. So to allow the computer to fully control the airspeed, cars have to designed so that, with the fan off, you get very little airflow. It doesn't matter if your car doesn't actually have climate control. If the manufacturer thought about including it somewhere in the range, they will have knobbled the ram air effect for the whole range.

'course, pollen filters don't help much either...

Cheers,

Colin.

It doesn't matter if your car doesn't actually

I know the Sierra didn't have that ... you just got used to being covered with a shower of leaves when you put the blower on full (and full it was!). ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

After reading this thread I noted they sold suff like this in Homebase (with bags of refils) but I think they disolve into the water?

Silica gel I think is the stuff that can be 're-charged' (by forced drying as suggested) or you can buy little units that must have a small mains powerd heater built in (overnight recharge) ;-)

like:

I also believe silica gel powder is carcinogenic so you might not want to be playing with it out of it's packaging ;-(

All the best ..

T i m

Alaways amazed at number of cars driving around all steamed up, I've never had that trouble except in extreme circumstances, simply keep the fan on all the time, in damp comditions it may need to be on second speed, and that should pump enough air into the car to "push" out the damp air.

Tony

Also sprach "apk1" :-

It's often pilot error - air intake lever set to recycle.

The silica gel that turned blue used cobalt chloride as the indicator, plain silica gel isn't AFAIK listed anywhere as harmfull.

Saw one of these on the M56 tonight. Crawling along in good conditions. Pulled along side and it looked like they were having a sauna in there.

They probably thought the weather was awful :-)

Pete.

yes, i educated one of my fellow drivers. Wondering why they were driving around with the air on recycle and the windows open... She now thinks I'm some sort of car-god because she donest have to freeze and the windows don't steam up (as much).

And blocked pollen filters don't help