below the round air conditioning dial there are two switches, the right one is to turn the air con on, the left one is about whether the air is recirculated

 

my question is, when the left switch is turned on, ie the yellow light is on, what does this mean please? air from outside or air recirculated?

If the yellow light is on, it means the vents are recirculating inside air only.

 

It's designed to work independently from the A/C button, however the recirculate button comes simultaneously to A/C automatically when turning the temperature dial to coldest setting and set direction dial to face or feet blowers, because you want the cold air to recirculate on passengers. UNLESS you switch to Windscreen blowers where the A/C only comes on, because you want outside air assisted by the cold to demist. (Although I never EVER use cold air to demist, always turn to warm air, windcreen setting and turn off A/C, it works better on my our 2016 Fabia Estate ).

 

Beware that when the direction flow dial is turned to windscreen and the A/C light is not on, look at your revs and pick up the car because if it feels sluggish, it might still be on. Just turn the dial to face and feet and you'll be fine.

thank you - i don't really understand why anybody would want to recirculate internal air other than perhaps for an initial warm up because it leads to the car misting, or it did in our last car.

 

now with your help i will keep it so the light is off and air from outside gets in so hopefully there will be no misting.

 

Edited 29 November, 20178 yr by bollard

The AC button lies when on demist mode- the AC is permenently on! I leave AC on during the winter, otherwise I find it steams up much worse as the AC removes moisture from the air. Having said that, I haven't tried demisting with the AC off when the engine is cold- that might work better as the air is at ambient outside temperature not being chilled. 

 

I am tempted to get one of those bags of silica gel to remove some of the moisture. 

I have a moisture collection bag from Asda for a fiver.

I put it in the centre of the dash when it is cold.

This helps to keep the front inside windscreen dry.

It fits snugly in the tray below the handbrake lever when not in use.

 

Thanks AG Falco

Hmmm there's a big Asda on my way back from the gym, might pop in!

you know, i think that you last two guys need to turn off the internal circulation switch so that it isn't lit up, if outside air can get in then it should sort misting with the air con on.

 

what do you reckon Jedispooner?

 

Edited 29 November, 20178 yr by bollard

The recirculation is always off- the exception is when cooling the car ASAP during the summer!

well, that's a puzzle, I can't understand it.

Edited 29 November, 20178 yr by bollard

It's because of the rain I think. Manchester is a very damp city, and I'm always getting into the car wet from outside or sweaty from the gym, and so there's lots of moisture in the air inside the car. They're well sealed, and when the air cools it dumps the moisture out, especially onto the windows which cool quickest. 

i haven't driven our skoda much but if that was happening to me and it wasn't raining then i'd drive a little way with the window open until the heater got going strongly but, of course, if the wife was there that probably wouldn't go down well 

Edited 29 November, 20178 yr by bollard

I bought Rainex inside anti-fog wipes. Wipe on, then buff clean. Never seen any  fogging on the inside of the screen since! 

 

Fog on the inside of my headlights, now that’s a feature as standard

and this is a VW car in essence that we are talking about,

 

thought we were dealing with excellence rather than resorting to diy measuers to resolve design faults 

 

sorry - i feel a bit fed up after getting caught out with the windscreen (see other post)

Edited 29 November, 20178 yr by bollard

Might get some RainX wipes. 

 

It's not so much an issue of it doing it while raining, but that the general air is damp (IE high humidity). It's not too bad, no worse than my previous Ford (although that had a quick clear windscreen which worked wonders) and way better than my old 2002 Polo with a leaky taillight. 

 

Modern cars are very well sealed in general, but people are wet. We breathe and sweat out significant amounts of water- only 60% of water leaves the body in the bathroom. And when we're sitting in a car that water is going into the air around us, and it then doesn't leave very easily, except when windows are down (which doesn't help that much when it's raining!) or the fan is on. I virtually never turn it completely off, but perhaps I should keep it on 2 more than 1.