Subject: Heating-Ventilation

[Mark and Aviva Woodland]

Check to see if your A/C is kicking on. De-fogging can be difficult, if not
impossible in the winter without the A/C, especially in freezing rain
situations, and expecially with the car full of people pumping all of that
vapor into the air.

 > Leaky heater core?
> > Hello All!
> >
> > I have a 1986 Audi 5000 Quattro 4 door, the heating works, it becomes
hot
> > inside car, though the windows can fog, especially in the back, and fogs
> > faster when there are more people inside the car. The rear defogger
> > functions, when degogger is turned off, the back light will fog, turning
> the
> > defogger on again, the back light will unfog. The windows have been
> tinted.
> > When turned on to "Auto" the vents on the left and right edges of the
dash
> > will unfog side windows in the front, better that center vents be turned
> off
> > to have more air exiting from the edge vents. At times I am driving with
a
> > very warm front cabin with temperature showing "HI"  with outside
> > temperature of -4C but with foggy windows.
> > I wonder if the vent like slots behind the rear speakers below the back
> > light have any role in this issue of windows fogging. On the outside at
> the
> > bottom of C-pillar, just behind rear quarter window, there is a plastic
> > covered section, painted the same as the body, I can peek in behind this
> > vent like cover. I wonder if this has any role in the fogging of
windows?
> >
> > Any suggestions to the solution of this fogging?
> >
> >
> > Max
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