My input to you on the hvac. Not so much input as criticism I guess. I pretty much leave mine on 62, and my left 2 windows down. If I bump it down to 61, it automagically turns on the compressor on and puts it in recirc mode. So I bump it back up to 62 and leave it there. There was some kind of custom setting (I don't remember the detail because it was mostly worthless). But I think the custom setting (before I changed it) would leave the A/C on, and maybe leave the thing in recirc when I bump back up to 62. Both of which I'd have to turn off manually when bumping up to 62. At least now after changing the setting, when I bump it up to 62, it reverses what it did when I bumped down to 61. Either way, it's so stupid (to me) to automagically turn on the A/C and go to recirc just because I put it in the lowest temp setting. Annoying, but I'll live.
So there's that. But also, I strongly dislike all automagic climate controls because if it were truly functioning the way it is intended, I should be able to put it on 72° (or whatever temp I find most comfortable), and never futz with it again. And at my set point of 72°, at some ambient above 72° it should turn on the A/C and bring it down to 72° inside. And at 72° and lower, it should turn off the A/C and or add in some heat if the ambient drops (some predefined level) below 72° in order to hold 72°. But no system I've ever been exposed to works like that. Including my Lexus LS 460L. If you put an automagic hvac in auto, it doesn't matter the temp you set it for, it slams on the A/C full time. And, let's say you get in a scalding ass hot car and it is 120° inside. When you crank the car and if you had left it on 72° Auto, the system should blow you into the backseat with hi fan and max cold until it starts nearing your set point. Then it can begin to back off a bit as it approaches your set point.
However, it doesn't do that. Here's what I notice. With a hot as hell cabin (in GA summers), and my automatic hvac is set at 72° and AUTO, the fan blows at probably 50% fan speed, and the air coming is just sort of cool. Yet if I manually change the temp down to the lowest setting number, then the fan speed kicks up to full blast and blows snow out the vents. That sort of ---- pisses me off to the extreme. If it is truly automagic, why is it not smart enough to realize that if I'm sweating my balls off at 120°, I want a snow hurricane in the cabin ... not just some fairly cool air drizzling in, even if I have it set at 72° versus what 61° or 60° or whatever is the coolest setting, I want a snow hurricane to quickly eliminate the hot tub inside.
And in my LS 460L, it has a separate A/C system for the rear seat (not just vents, a whole nother system). And with the front and rear system both cranking out max cool, it will cool off a 120° cabin quickly. Yet if I have it at my prefered 72°, I have to remain sweaty much longer. It's just plain dumb. That and the fact that whatever temperature number I have it set at, the average temp in the cabin is probably not so accurate to the number. Which begs the question, why segment it into so many friggin numbers? This is where a manual hvac is superior. There's usually a blue zone and a red zone (temp control) and some overlap in the middle. When you get in and it's hot, you can quickly slam to full cold and max fan, until you begin to get comfortable. But with the Mirage (and Lexus) auto climate control, I have to push the temp down button, beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep friggin beep until it gets to either max low or max high. That annoying versus slamming a slide or dial (quicker / easier) right to one extreme or the other.
Someone in another post said the 2019 ES was the ultimate because it could be had with a manual hvac. I think they were right.
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