View Poll Results: Do you use your A/C with the top down?
No - The thought simply disgusts me.Yes - I'll gladly use all technology at my disposal.Does the S2 have an A/C?
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A/C with the top down
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From: St Petersburg, FL
I've done it, but I'm always afraid I'm causing wear and tear on the AC compressor. I'm starting to think that down here in FL. it doesn't make much difference, if you have it turned on it probably runs all the time anyway. Top up or down.
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From: EstesPark/BocaRaton
Honda expects you to, right? I mean, there'a setting for it.
An interesting second-level question is: who uses the A/C with the top down and keeps the recirculation button on?
(Disclosure: I do this, because it boosts the fan up a notch.)
HPH
An interesting second-level question is: who uses the A/C with the top down and keeps the recirculation button on?
(Disclosure: I do this, because it boosts the fan up a notch.)
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From: Loveland, CO
Originally Posted by Golden Eagle,Jun 23 2006, 04:36 PM
Summer version... A/C with top down and windows up
Winter version... Heat with top down and windows up
Still have the benifit of the open air but beats the heck out of roastin' (or freezin').
Winter version... Heat with top down and windows up
Still have the benifit of the open air but beats the heck out of roastin' (or freezin').
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From: Randolph, NJ
I've been doing it for years. In the summer, top down air conditioner on. In the winter top down, heater on. The windows are always down.
The only times the top goes up are 1) If I get caught in the rain (that only happens once in a while as my S isn't allowed out of the garage in the rain) or 2) If Liz is in the car for a long drive (she doesn't like long drives with the top down, but she doesn't ride in the S very much so it's not been an issue.)
Why wouldn't you use the air conditioner with the top down?
The only times the top goes up are 1) If I get caught in the rain (that only happens once in a while as my S isn't allowed out of the garage in the rain) or 2) If Liz is in the car for a long drive (she doesn't like long drives with the top down, but she doesn't ride in the S very much so it's not been an issue.)
Why wouldn't you use the air conditioner with the top down?
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From: Clifton, VA
I would have responded to the last half of the second question. But it seems that you poll got a bit screwed up?
The answer is yes! That is why they have both heat and A/C.
Back in January we had a beautiful winter day, not a cloud in the sky but the high temperature for the day was in the low twenties. I was out running errands that day and put on my Eddie Bauer down jacket and dropped the top turned on the heat and enjoyed the day. I have to admit that I did get some strange looks.
On the other hand: Last June when we took our 2400+ mile road trip to upstate NY and NE it was just our luck that we did it in the middle of a heat wave that rode up the east coast with us. We drove virtually the whole trip with the top down the windows up and the A/C going full blast in the top down mode.
The answer is yes! That is why they have both heat and A/C.
Back in January we had a beautiful winter day, not a cloud in the sky but the high temperature for the day was in the low twenties. I was out running errands that day and put on my Eddie Bauer down jacket and dropped the top turned on the heat and enjoyed the day. I have to admit that I did get some strange looks.
On the other hand: Last June when we took our 2400+ mile road trip to upstate NY and NE it was just our luck that we did it in the middle of a heat wave that rode up the east coast with us. We drove virtually the whole trip with the top down the windows up and the A/C going full blast in the top down mode.
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I only use the A/C with the top down when Martha is in the car. She tends to be much more sensitive to the heat than I am. She lived in Houston most of her life and I spent most of mine in New England. Go figure.
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From: Canton, MA
It has to very hot for me to do this. The 105 degrees mentioned at the top of the thread is well into my uncomfort zone.
Cloudy is right, there is a setting for this mode of operation right on the knob. (Lainey's +1 pointed this out to me about two years ago.)
Cloudy is right, there is a setting for this mode of operation right on the knob. (Lainey's +1 pointed this out to me about two years ago.)
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From: Calif - Sierra Foothills
Deb drove back from work yesterday (her office is in Sacramento and we live 50 miles east toward Lake Tahoe) and when she went through Roseville (a former All American City for those who remember the Life Magazine annual pronouncement), her outside temp gauge read 119 degrees. It had been 105 in Sacramento some 16 miles earlier and it was 95 when she pulled up the driveway.
People here have been wondering if being designated an All American City might carry with it some unintended consequences in the form of vortexes or other such stuff that concentrates heat and energy that can't be dissapated so it migrates to the intersection of I-80 and C-65.
One day, I'll get the poll thing right.
People here have been wondering if being designated an All American City might carry with it some unintended consequences in the form of vortexes or other such stuff that concentrates heat and energy that can't be dissapated so it migrates to the intersection of I-80 and C-65.
One day, I'll get the poll thing right.