LX driver here in Northern Louisiana where it's hot hot hot with a side of humid. the A/C is so cold on my hands that I have to re-angle the vents when driving to work. late in the day (when its sat in the sun) it might take a few minutes to cool down the car but overall i'm happy with it.

 

I finally got to use my a/c for the first time. It seemed to work pretty well, granted it was only 83deg but it was pretty humid. This morning however, it dropped back into the high 40's, so no a/c needed today.

 

I don't think it was designed to be used this way but the recirculate knob on the 2015 fit allows you to adjust the size of the opening through which interior air is drawn in to be recirculated. If you move the knob to the middle of its travel, the opening is about 1/2 the size it is when the knob all the way to the left, all the way to the recirculate position - the flap is about halfway opened. There is no detent but there is enough friction in the moving parts between the knob and the flap to keep the flap sitting in the middle of its travel. The flap is cable-operated - you don't have "flap by wire" as you may have in some other models.

 

Dear God, where are you in Wisconsin? We're coming to visit Madison in a few weeks and we may freeze to death given what we're used to ;-)

 

83 degrees and humid!! Try 118 degrees and monsoon season in Arizona!

 

That is sounding like the place to be right now.

 

Well we've pretty much run the gauntlet of high temps (up to 115) here in the desert and my Fit's ac keeps up. Dashmat and tinted windows help a lot as well. I do wish it wouldn't blow so much hot air on startup.

 

You'll be fine. Just bring your winter coat, ear muffs, insulated gloves and a scarf.

 

Can verify about the warm air from A/C- I drive an '09 sport and what I've noticed is the length of time driven: under an hour A/C is quite cold, no problems. Over an hour, A/C REALLY struggles to keep up with demand...and I only run it at lvl 2 max! Air warms up, sweating warms up, anger levels warm up lol. One crappy chain reaction. Can also confirm that air seems to blow colder from lower power levels. I live in hot and humid NC and all the variables that everyone has mentioned already really pile up. I will employ the methods of many wiser users; hope it helps.

 

Same boat as you with a 2010, let me know if you find a solution. I measured the freon and it is fully charged.

 

I live in Phoenix, sort of a hot place, and the A/C Will freeze you out.

 

My white Fit does not get as hot sitting in the sun as my previous blue car and my A/C temperature at the center vent never gets less than 40F no matter of the temperature outside. My previous car has colder A/C even now after 12 years of owning it and never recharging it with more R134. In the Fit I went as far as insulating the cold freon lines under the hood but that did not get the temp lower but I think it makes the compressor turn on slightly less often as the pipes stay cold longer.

 

You DO know this is a car, not a refrigerator, right?

 

Hot summer in Jacksonville, Florida. AC at 10 o'clock most of the time. Fan on 2 at most. No discomfort in LX at all and I am an AC fan (no pun intended). If there was an issue with the AC, I'd be upset and blowing hot air, but -thankfully- I'm not.

I drove a Ford Fiesta as a loaner recently, and it's AC was almost uncomfortably cold. I don't need my car to be an icebox. The Fit is very comfortable temperature wise.

 

Just a follow-up, it was 102° here yesterday. The AC was perfect!

 

This happens on long trips in our 2009 Fit Sport. The evaporator is freezing so that airflow is blocked and cooling capacity falls, leaving the cabin too hot.

My solution is to shut off the compressor and keep the fan running on 3 or 4. The ice will melt and actually cool the air without the compressor engaged. Once it's gone, the discharge temperature rises noticeably and I switch the compressor back on.

This melting process takes between 3 and 10 minutes depending on conditions outside. It's not ideal, but it works for us.

Note that in defrost modes, the compressor runs regardless of the a/c switch setting. This feature, which I believe is for US drivers only, can be disabled by pulling a white single conductor wire from the back of the a/c switch assembly.

 

'15 LX here. My a/c is awful. Any temperature over 80F and it feels like its blowing warm air. About 26k miles, about to take it in, I don't know what to expect.

What's strange is that in the 70F range it genuinely feels like the a/c is working, albeit a little weak.

 

2015 EX air conditioner is not a refrigerator, but holds up fine in Atlanta summer weather.

 

I'm from Atlanta (GA) and was surprised to find it gets every bit as hot and humid here in the Middle West where I live now as it did back 'home.' The difference is it only lasts for a few weeks each summer! Our near-100-year-old farmhouse doesn't even have central air - we 'make do' with window units that get run maybe two or three weeks out of the year.

That said, it was 91° and very humid today. Took a while to cool the cabin down (no tinted windows), and it was fine within 15-20 minutes of leaving work (50 minute commute out to corn and bean country). I start in recirc/high, but move to fresh/2 as quickly as I can, and that generally keeps it comfortable the rest of the trip.

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Try running in recirculate mode. In that mode it will freeze up less often In the recirculate mode most of the moisture is removed from the air on the first pass. The next time the air flows through on recirculate there is little moisture left to accumulate on the evaporator. In recirculate you still get a little outside air so you will not eliminate all moisture collection on the evaporator but you will greatly reduce it and the amount of ice accumulated.

Your real problem is the system is slightly undercharged. As the amount of r-134 in the system goes down, the evaporator temperature also goes down. If you can put up with having to turn off the AC occasionally to allow it to melt and run off, I would do that.

If not, then you can stick a $10 digital meat thermometer from Walmart in the vent and watch the temperature. You would like it not to go below 40 or 41 F. ever. If it does, add a little r-134 and watch it again.

DO NOT ADD too much or you will have a problem with the system not cooling enough. I would initially try no more that 1/4 of a can of R-134 and see what the thermometer does for the next few days.

You can also get a recharge hose and a can of R-134 form Walmart. Get the cheapest brand. Do NOT get r-134 with stop leak in it.

If it were my car I would leave it alone until it gets worse. I have one car that has been doing that for several years. I have all of the stuff to recharge it. I have not bothered. I just turn of the AC for a few minutes with the fan still on when the problem occurs.