"Windows up or down?" Topic

When you are driving around (thinking about wargaming) do you roll the windows down for climate control or adjust the internal thermostat? Assume warm, no precipitation.

Seems to me this is a type – one does one all the time and the other, never.

If its warm, I turn on the AC! :)

Damon.

In my country assuming warm and no precipitation is a bad plan.

In late Fall and most of Winter, windows. During the rest of the year, AC.

No AC in car, so windows down.

Windows down if alone, AC if the wife is along.

I'm in the same country as Jim Duncan.

x42

How would you game that?

Outside, on a windy day, with cards.

A/C, almost always.

No A/C in the car (nor the house for that matter) so windows down.

It is funny, what they call hot here we call February in Texas. Of course I am completely acclimated so I am also roasting when it is "hot" here.

If its warm, I turn on the AC! :)

Too right!

Around 45 to 70 degrees is open-windows weather. If you see me with my window down warmer than that, either someone is about to hand me a Chick-fil-A sandwich, or my car is overheating.

Aircon. Windows always up.

I prefer LINUX.

If it's reasonably warm and I'm not lugging a tonne of stuff, I'm on a motorcycle (including taking armies to club to play games with).

Which option do I tick for that?

John T

Windows down whenever possible.

windows down till sweat appears.

AC because the wind going by the window interferes with my music.

I got 460 AC in the ol' Truckster…4 windows down at 60mph…

I'm also in the same country as JimDuncan. I usually drive about with my window down. I also often have a wet arm…

Almost always windows down, I don't like AC for the most part.

Open windows used to be my AC until I replaced my vehicle two years ago with one that has the new-fangled mechanical variety. Whether it goes on depends on a combination of the ambient temperature and solar intensity (as determined by the degree of cloud cover), but generally the windows get closed when it reaches the low thirties (celsius).

Lesson from the natural AC years: a forty-something degree wind in your face can be very soporific!

Down, since the A/C equipment wasn't replaced after the accident by the lazy auto repair place. Should have sued them for that, but they managed to drag their feet for too long, and then we moved, so…….

Generally, if it's not too hot, I prefer real air.

Here though, it's frequently 100+ in the shade, so I miss A/C a lot.

I've watched too many Zombie shows to ever leave the windows down.

I often roll down the windows and run the AC at the same time.

Down when driving less than 30mph. Up and AC over. If the temp is over 75, AC

I use the AC when it is hot. Sometimes I open the sun roof with the AC on. I rarely roll down my windows. Most people I know that drives with the window rolled down in a car with AC are smokers.

As the a/c is broken, I wind down the Windows.

I drive a two-seater. The top is down whenever the weather makes it feasible.

Rick

There is a mithbuster show on if window down ruins the airflow causing more drag lowering gas mileage as opposed to the air conditioner putting drag on engine. I think it's equal as I remember so go with air conditioning mostly.

My first car, a Toyota Corolla in the 70s, said plainly in the manual I would get better gas mileage at freeway speeds with the windows up. The manual for my second, a Nissan Sentra, said the same thing.

Also I had allergies. Though a couple decades later, Clariton made those a non-issue. (Lucky.)

And 30 years after those first vehicles, I developed a new habit. Lately, on a fine day on city streets I decided I should "live a little". I have taken to driving with sunroof open and all windows down. I didn't put this together until a friend pointed it out, but just before I started this, my doctor prescribed Vitamin D supplements.

The rest of the time, shuttered up with AC going.

I should mention I live in southern California so we have quite a number of "fine days", and I even try to do same on chilly days (with jacket). And on some hot days with AC cooling the great outdoors. Not on very hot days though, then it's time for windows up.

I live in the SE of the UK. Windows down until the rear view mirror starts icing over; same rule for wearing shorts.

Just bought a convertible with AC and a sun roof! So its roof down if its dry and there is a hint of sun. Even if that needs a leather jacket and scarf! I haven't tried the AC yet but the heated seats are nice. That's the joy of British weather lid down and heating on at the same time is well within "normal" parameters!

Depends on who I'm riding with.