Mirage heater is absolutely **** for Canadian Winters
I have to be honest with you all, the Mirage is an absolutely **** car for Canadian Winters. The base base model has horrible condensation issues, no model has a heater strong enough to defrost the top of the windshield while driving on the highway in the winter, and it's the main resounding complain that I hear day in and day out from my customers. Most people who have racked up the miles on their Mirages are switching to the RVR when time comes for the next vehicle. Going way back through old files, nobody has reupped. Either they are still on the road in the original Mirage, or they've moved on to an RVR. The most common trade in on a new RVR is a Mirage when it comes to those who have stayed with the same brand.
I mean, I like mine, but it's cold all the time. Without Air Conditioning, if you try to warm your feet up the windshield immediately fogs up. If you defog the windshield, your feet turn to ice. I believe that I should be able to drive my car in flip flops and a t-shirt regardless of the weather, and that's simply not true of these little things. They just can't.
Don't even attempt lots of short trips and tracking snow into the car with carpet mats. Can't happen! I could only imagine if you added a couple kids or other moisture creating creatures to the rear seats. It's not bad by myself, it can be rough with 2 people...
Cold, damp, 100% humidity, 2 people breathing, weak as **** fan speed blowing warm air through a poorly designed defrost vent below the windshield that only spans the middle third of it...
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View my fuel log 2018 Mirage ES 1.2 manual: 43.5 mpg (US) ... 18.5 km/L ... 5.4 L/100 km ... 52.2 mpg (Imp)