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Old 30-06-2010, 10:44 PM   #1
Skid Marx
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Default XR5 De Misting Windscreen - Weak

Here in Perth (as in many other Aussie cities) we've had cold mornings and my XR5 is parked outside without cover. This means the windscreen is dead cold and so naturally condenses the moisture in my breath.

On every other car, I've found setting the air-con to it's lowest temp setting, selecting NON-recirculating air, selecting the windscreen option for the blower outlets and turning the fan up full is the quickest way to get rid of this. But on my LV XR5 Focus, it has little effect. In fact I think the air-con system (compressor, refrigerant, etc) simply won't switch in when it's under about 8 degrees ambient temp outside so it's probably futile.

I've tried windows down but the screen remains misted. The manual (the book, not the gearbox - yuk yuk) says to turn the air-con up the full heat. Well, that's OK but sitting there for 5 minutes waiting for it to happen just seems like bad design. My old car - 04 Subaru Impreza RS never had this problem - but made up for it with lots of other problems!

Any ideas around this? I have not tried any of the anti-fogging solutions so far as I had a bad experience with Rain-X about 20 years ago. It worked, but my windscreen had shocking glare problems with the sun low in the sky.

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