well that and give us an interior weather report. Is it comfy inside? And none of this subversive Celsius stuff; give it to us in Fahrenheit as god intended.

 

I know Celcius is for the birds....grew up with Farenheit. In the winter here I go by 2 things....how quick the dogs want in after a pee and if when I take a deep breath my nose hairs freeze ( below 16 degrees F.) Ha Ha.

 

well that and the squeaky noise the snow makes as you walk on it. Ahhh memories. I remember snow.

I always thought it was the snot freezing in my nose. Nose hairs, eh?

edit: low of 1, high of three. that's kinda boring.

crap saturday you might as well stay in bed! (low -25f, high -13f). Do you have an electric blanket for your Fit?

 

How offensive. God is always capitalized.

You even put Fahrenheit capitalized so you should know better.

Celsius gets my vote for actually making sense and being more civilized.

 

$400 for registration lol it hasn't gotten that bad [yet]. this year's registration cost me $230 , i paid only $100 the year prior. it is expensive to live in cali, although i can't imagine living anywhere else.

as far as the window condensation thing goes, i open up my windows a tiny bit but keep the heater on. it works. been using this technique since i learned to drive. i only use the defroster when it stinks outside.

 

True, but saying it's a balmy 25 isn't the same as a balmy 77.

What about the Norse gods? They endorsed Fahrenheit long before the US did. (actually it was my spell checker that made me capitalize them).

 

If you have the advantage of a reasonably warm, dry garage, open some windows while the car is parked. That will let it dry out inside.
Moon

 

Arghhh Damn Alberta Weather !!!! It warmed up to just above zero f. However the humidity came up too from about 35% to 85%. Nasty roads. Good news everyone!!!! No fogged or frosted windows. Lots of heat inside. Decided to run on outside air and air conditioning!!!! Will have to try that when it get colder . Happy Happy Happy!

 

well 85% humidity at zero farrhenenenenhichttttt when warmed to comfyness is about 40% humidity. Just guessing, but it's something along those lines.

Does your Fit sleep indoors or does it huddle in the cold whimpering?

 

Lucky for Stormy she live in an unheated attached garage. No more scraping windows and yeah we have wild humidity changes here. When the humidity is up in the 80 to 90 % and we are colder than about -16f we get these weird ice fogs. The sun can be shining , not a cloud in the sky but you can see the ice crystals forming in the air.

 

Here's another test you can perform for us warm climate dwellers (ha, we're being attacked by Canadian air right now; it's only 39 outside. farhehehehit, not celsius):

Cars typically disable the A/C below freezing to avoid freezing their tubes (A/C evaporator coil). They do this simply; there's a thermostat on the coils that prevents the A/C compressor from running when the evaporator (the part that cools the car) gets close to freezing. If they didn't do this the condensation on the outside of the coils would freeze blocking airflow.

You can tell when the A/C compressor engages by the click-whir as the clutch engages and the condenser fans (radiator fans) come on.

My hypothesis is, even with the A/C button engaged, at low temperatures the A/C doesn't really come on. Others here have noted that it does come on, laying waste to my 2nd paragraph. I dunno: if it really comes on maybe the evaporator is after the heater core to keep it from frosting up.

Just curious, but the corollary to this is that the A/C comes on when in defrost/defog (even though the button doesn't light), and my assumption is it doesn't do this at low temperatures making the infamous defog-A/C-defeat mod a bit redundant.

Also how long does it take to get comfy inside (shirtsleeve comfy, not parka comfy)?

 

Wish we had snow over here. It was 80+ here in Orlando yesterday, in the middle of december WTF.

 

yeah sucks to be warm, doesn't it.

 

It sucks to be sweating bullets the moment you step outside, then waiting 10 minutes for the Fit's AC to pump out enough cold air to lower the temperature of the car to at least 100 F. All of this in december. Don't even get me started on july/august. I hate FL.

 

The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. Use it.

 

Hmm...I just had something weird happen to me yesterday. For the first time ever, I stepped into my car and the inside of the windshield had DROPS of water! I've never had some much condensation that drops of water would stream down the windsheidl... (~4-6 drops).

Has anyone else had this happen? Or is there something wrong with my windshield...?

Thanks!

 

You are correct, it is your problem. Recirculate is only for extra cooling when fresh air cooling is not enough.

 

I have a 2008 Fit and 2009 Fit. They are both unbelievably bad for condensation. I've never had and problems like this from any of the dozen other cars I've owned. I haven't the slightest idea why. Good thing they have AC to clear up the problem windows. We'll just have to live with it.

 

First, clean the windows on the inside. Secondly, make sure you are using fresh air, not recirculated. Third, if you don't want to use defrost constantly because of compressor draw (or mod defrost to not run the compressor) you can run the floor setting, it does blow some air on the windshield, typically enough to keep the windows clear once defrost does the trick.

 

And clean, and clean. If not done regularly, I find that it takes 2-4 passes to get rid of all the schmutz that outgasses from the plastic and upholstery. This is not uniquely a Honda problem; it's inherent with most new cars, due to all the plastics (the real source of that "new car" phone).