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« on: 12 February 2007, 21:23:38 »
Hi - thanks for the hints. I hope to have a look this week. Been to Stansted and back (235 miles and used 35 liters of petrol - I am a bit dissappointed and I was generally driving smoothly except for a bit of stop-and-go around Cambridge. Could it be something like a water pump or so being to worn out and thus heavy on the engine causing this?) - on the way home (5-8 Celsius) the air con kept the windows mist free and the temperature nice and warm. On the way down - in a drizzle of snow (that anyway caused the whole country to grind to a halt, but I am Scandinavian so I dont scare easy - at least not by snowy roads) - the car misted up horribly. I regularly had to open a window to get some fresh air in. It seemed to make it easier for the fan to clear the windscreen. Even though it was running full speed (and I tried anything from LO to HI on the temp) it was struggling to keep the mist off. The side windows were more or less misted over all the time and needed a regular wipe. It was around 0 celsius so of course I expected some misting up, but this was really to much. Something strange happened when I did a kick down overtaking up a hill: a moment after the car misted up even more than usual. I tried it again later and there was a similar reaction. Very strange... When the road got a bit better and I could go 65-75 mph the de-misting seemed to work better. Wonder if it is something with the compressor that is bugging me and not the recirculation button anyway?
