My cars always just had a lever for how hot you want the car to get. These new cars have specific temperatures you can set. What do you set it at for heat?
21 degrees Celcius.
I like it freezing so i only use it half of the year. Right now its cold enough outside.
The only exception is for clearing the windshield.
293 kelvin
I’m lazy and just set it to the max/min possible depending on if I’m cold or hot. This probably isn’t good. Does it feel good in the moment? Yeah.
Right now, the outside temperature oscillating between 5°C (41°F) and 12°C (54°F) where I live, I set it at 18°C (64°F) because I wear a big wool sweater and don’t want to completely undress/dress when going in and out of the car. I live in France in the countryside, so cities a pretty walkable (so you have to dress accordingly) and our cars small (compared to American standards). I drive a Seat Ibiza which is a pretty standard sized car here :

Base: 23°C (because fuel vehicle. It’s waste heat, might add well make it t-shirt weather inside)
Was I cold before getting in? +1°C Warm? -3°C
Am I dressed for cold weather or is it warm outside and I don’t want it to heat up the air from outside further? -5°C
Is sun on my side of the car? -1°C in winter, -6°C in summer (52 degrees north)
Am I arriving within a few minutes? AC off
Is the stuff around me radiating heat or cold? - 2 / +2 °C because the air temperature is only one factor in how warm you feel (imagine a hot lamp vs. cloudless night sky above you)
gets in car
pulls out abacus
22° C
Opposite of what one might think. In the winter I keep it at 17C or 18C because I am going to be getting out into even cooler temps and I am often wearing a jacket. In the summer I keep it at least 22C and up to 25C depending on outside temp so I don’t feel like I’m going from the fridge into the oven when I get out of my car. I haven’t found that having the passenger seat set at a different temp works so I keep the whole car at the same temp. However I also have heating and cooling seats and heated steering wheel which I also use to offset the outside temp.
I maintain a fleet of cars. When I do my weekly inspections, I set every single temperature on the HVAC system to 69f. It’s been several years, my boss hasn’t said anything.
Always set to 69.
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Hah, joke’s on you! Mine still has a dial with no numeric measure whatsoever
In the winter:
- 23 in the driver’s position (me)
- 25 on the passenger side with seat warmer on full (my GF).
- All back seats on both rows get 24 (my kids), as they’ve never really complained about temps.
In the summer it’s 20C across all seats.
Ergo, in general the opposite of outside.
Generally 23-24 for winter and a couple of degrees lower for summer.
22 when it cold, max cool (18 and max fan speed) this time of the year in the afternoons until the air temp comes down, then just reduce the fan speed
21.5C in the winter, 19.5C in the summer/for drives over 1 hour long.
I like how accurate these are ^^






