Outside air vs recirculating inside air

[mountie]

all cars will get air inside, otherwise you would hear about dead people sleeping inside, etc, etc
and it's also why federal guidelines dictate how long a vehicle can idle on remote start because idiots park them in the garage and leave it running, which HAS resulted in dead people

 

[Doubeleive]

I corrected that, no federal law but many state laws.... gm made it 10 minutes to cover there behind...

 

[nomech]

all cars will get air inside, otherwise you would hear about dead people sleeping inside, etc, etc
and it's also why many state have guidelines/rules/laws that dictate how long a vehicle can (or should) idle on remote start because idiots park them in the garage and leave it running, which HAS resulted in dead people

Understood, I guess what I'm saying is that I don't have this issue with foreign vehicles but I do with mine. Maybe there is something wrong with mine, but I also didn't notice this recently, I noticed it when it was still under warranty but it was never a big enough issue to take the car in and try to explain the problem.

 

[mountie]

A '70's VW Bug...... Closing the door will almost blow your ears up !!

 

[Doubeleive]

and...who was it? hyundia? that patented the fart extractor, to vent a drivers seat fart to the back seat

 

[Doubeleive]

Understood, I guess what I'm saying is that I don't have this issue with foreign vehicles but I do with mine. Maybe there is something wrong with mine, but I also didn't notice this recently, I noticed it when it was still under warranty but it was never a big enough issue to take the car in and try to explain the problem.

you could have it checked but it's likely going to have to come out of pocket because the only way to tell for sure if the vent is closed is a visual and manual inspection. a scanner can say it is closed but that really doesn't mean much with these cheap actuators, and even with a manual inspection the foam inside could be deformed or something letting air thru.

 

[nomech]

you could have it checked but it's likely going to have to come out of pocket because the only way to tell for sure if the vent is closed is a visual and manual inspection. a scanner can say it is closed but that really doesn't mean much with these cheap actuators, and even with a manual inspection the foam inside could be deformed or something letting air thru.

I meant, when it was under warranty I could have had it looked at, at no cost. At this point, I'm not taking it to them. If there was something I could look at on my own I'd have to decide if it would be worth it to take the dash apart. It isn't that much of an inconvenience. I mainly wanted to know if I was alone or if this was common.

Thanks.

 

[Doubeleive]

I meant, when it was under warranty I could have had it looked at, at no cost. At this point, I'm not taking it to them. If there was something I could look at on my own I'd have to decide if it would be worth it to take the dash apart. It isn't that much of an inconvenience. I mainly wanted to know if I was alone or if this was common.

Thanks.

in general the actuators will not give you any outward appearance of a problem, sometimes if one is bad it may make a "clicking" noise or you may hear it trying to move multiple times under the dash, but if you have a decent scanner capable of reading body codes then you could see if one or more actuators are having a problem such as a "feedback" error which means it was unable to either go to the position commanded or is unable to read the position, sometimes they will do this random and then be fine 99% of the time, but it will show a "count". that's really the only way you could check it yourself. that and feeling for air blowing from a vent when it shouldn't or feeling cold when it should be warm, etc