ooooook, in the city this would create your own smog box!
Where do you think the ac gets it’s air from? Either inside the cabin, or the same place this thing gets it’s air from.
Except the car’s HVAC system passes air through a filter. How much of a difference that makes is going to depend on the type of filter and whether it’s been changed sufficiently often, but it’s definitely doing more than nothing.
That would be genious if it didn’t need an open window.
Maybe it was an idea from back when trucks used to always have those little triangle windows?
I miss these. There’s many a day that i wish I had one of these vents on my work van
I’ve often thought that
wing mirrorsquarter glass should make a comeback. We must have solved the whistling problem by now.Have wing mirrors gone away?
I meant quarter glass.
Some days I shouldn’t comment before coffee.
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I hate to be that guy, but they’re actually called vent glass/windows, even in modern vehicles where they don’t open to ventilate. The quarter glass is in the rear of the vehicle on the quarter panel.
In the janky old vehicles I had back when that was a thing I would do stuff like smear some heavy grease on the edge to block the wind. Bottom dollar cars get bottom dollar fixes.
When I had a Volkswagen, I called it, “180-60 air conditioning.” Flip it 180° and drive 60 mph.
Funny enough my dad used to mention about 4*80 ac in the car for similar reasons, which makes me wonder if there where a lot of speeding tickets at the time.
Yeah, I didn’t have to worry about speeding in my bug.
I got to 85 mph in mine once on a straightaway while on a long trip. It wouldn’t go faster, but the engine gave it everything no questions. It also didn’t feel all that safe, so I didn’t do it again. Would I recommend a Beetle to anyone today, absolutely not. But I loved all four that I had in the past, and wouldn’t have traded them if I didn’t have to. A fun and needy death trap.
According to my dad, bugs were the easiest cars to steal.
You could lower the window from the outside just by firmly pushing against it and down with both hands, then turn the ignition with a flathead screwdriver.
My sister had a Plymouth Duster with little flaps under the dash that you could open to vent in some air from the outside.
The faster you go, the cooler you are. And also cooler.
What’s old is new again. 1930’s car cooler.
This cannot be good for your fuel efficiency.
Neither are other methods of air conditioning/circulation.
I wasn’t trying to imply they aren’t.
man my old Cruze dropped about 1/3 of its power efficiency if you wanted to use AC while trying to get up to speed and merge on the highway
gotta cut the cooling to engage the afterburners
My Dodge Shadow and Neon were the same.
As a geek, I want to refer to this as transferring life support to main engines.
I still do that in my fiesta. Easier than kicking out a passenger
Beyond the moderate dubiousness of the intended mechanism here, if that thing isn’t somehow strapped down or secured beyond being nestled into the half rolled up window, that could very easily come ajar from significant braking or accelerating.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in cars where the driver just piles loose shit all over their dash, or has a fucking chandelier attached to their rearview mirror, which have come loose and hit people in the face or gotten wedged in some wonky position, and this has lead to an actual or near car accident.
Yeah, who doesn’t want hot and humid air blowing in their face on a hot and humid day?
Don’t forget about the bugs! Bees and wasps, funnelled right at your face. Pure, car crash convenience.
I’ll be honest. I think insects are either learning not to go around roads or there are way fewer insects. I can’t remember the last time I had a bug on my windshield
The insect apocalypse is real.
Every gas station used to carry bug-b-gone to get the guts off your windshield and headlights.
We’re something like 75% down seasonally and 80% down midsummer since 2000.
Yes, the insects have been getting smarter, avoiding roads and living happy lives on lush meadows without disturbing us.
That’s the reality I chose to believe in!They have all gone to live happily on a farm.
Better than nothing.
no, not really.
Yes. You have no clue what you are talking about. This crap is run on cheap race cars all the time.
Fucking internet armchair experts running their their mouths all the time.
They could just remove the front and rear windshields and wear goggles.
When you want the bugs shot directly into your face
If only we still had bugs.
But we don’t, and that should fucking terrify everybody.
If only more people used redneck air conditioning. And I’m not kidding I’m going to school for HVAC cause I don’t want to starve in the street. Do y’all understand how bad this shit is?? It was supposed to be a medical device and y’all mofos set that shit to 65 to sleep. I’m not bougie and I understand that the 1% does most of the polluting but we need to change how we live
Problem is, I moved somewhere cold so I wouldn’t have to run the AC, and now summers here are just as hot as they were where I grew up. I can’t take the heat but it seems to be following me wherever I go.
I’m not saying people shouldn’t use AC but we should focus more on building homes to stay cool. Living spaces used to be designed with airflow in mind and windows were constructed to optimize capturing the breeze. Window tech has come a long way as far as heat rejection but awnings used to be everywhere. People focus too much on looks vs functionality and tbh modern houses are ugly as hell imo. AC should be used in tandem with all of the other things we’ve learned. I go to houses all the time that have the windows that don’t work or have been nailed closed with no ceiling fans and it blows my mind. I live in Texas so I get escaping to the north. We’re expecting some nasty weather so everyone is currently panic buying everything, I bet you miss that stuff lol
Agreed, I wish people built better instead of just slapping AC over the problem.
In practice, with a normal amount of bugs it doesn’t really happen
The inside of the intake gets dirty as fuck.
Dang, the Land Rover was ahead of its time.
That’s a Defender, the Goat of off road vehicles.
I’m pretty sure this is the Goat of off roading:
