you go through the different modes regarding air flow. For example, if I have it on head and feet icon and want to get it back to head only, when I hit the mode button and reach defog head and feet icon the ac light comes on (and I presume the compressor turns on) When I then hit it again to get the head only icon, the a/c lite is still on and I have to manually turn it off. Bad design, very bad design feature. Boo Infiniti!!

 

what annoys me more is that you can't recirc w/o the a/c. I've never had a car not allow me to do that, usually its the other way around since recirc can freeze the coils and switching to fresh air in can help to prevent that (on my volvo it would automatically switch to fresh air as needed). That and I don't need A/C on to heat my car for re-circ. ARGH!

 

Too many people don't know how to defog properly. It could be a liabilty avoidance thing.

 

Yeah the A/C goes on for Defog because it draws cold air from outside is discussed in the manual, I hear you on wanting it to go off when you switch tho, but on the otherhand then it would create a conflict when you wanted to defrost and keep the a/c on because it would turn it off when you switch. The manufacture probably figures that if you dont want the a/c on you will turn it off while you are in defrost mode and then it will stay off when you switch.

hope that makes sense.

 

Give me back the sliders or *****. With a seperate A/C button. On my last toyota it would turn the A/C on when it was in defrost mode, regardless of the A/C on/off button being on. BUT as soon as you took it out of defrost mode it would go back to whatever the A/C button was set to previously. Even with that people complained about it turning on the compressor for defrost and many people including myself bypassed it so the compressor only ran when the a/c button was on.

I am not a fan of auto climate control. I don't like it in my wifes maxima, and I don't like it in the G35. I always have my car on manual and adjust fan speed and temp and in/out air myself.

When I bought my last maxima I was torn between getting leather or cloth. Leather came with climate control, cloth came with a slider a **** and some buttons for where you wanted the air to go. I decided on the cloth to avoid the climate control.

It is better now than it was - I had a 90 300ZX with the climate control in the little pod stuck off the side of the gauges - I never could get the hang of that. I drove that car for 187,000 miles and never liked the climate control. It basicaly had an on/off button and temp/fan up/down buttons. It would decide the rest.


While ranting about the A/C - Does anyone know what ECON does? I assume it is more efficient somehow - does anyone know how?

 

Reason: when you defrost/defog, you need dry air. AC not only provides hot/cold air, it also dries the air before blowing it out the vents.

 

I agree climate control can be too much...just give me hot or cold and how fast :-)

econ i believe limits the cooling or something...I'd like to know also.

 

Only problem I've had with the automatic climate control was when I started the car up in summer with the setting at 72 degrees. It went full blast for about a minute then turned itself off. Scared me because I thought it broke already at 127 miles.