What’s your comfortable winter driving temp and settings.

[Webeevdrivers]

Hi all. It came up in conversation the other day. Just curious where people have things set for the winter. Our comfort zone seems to be

TEMP 18 degrees.
Seats on low.
HVAC manual with recirc on speed 1.

Our winter temps are seldom below minus 10.

Note. We take it off recirc if it windows fog up.

 

[coconutboy84]

18!! jeeze. i like to drive at 21 or 22 hahah

 

[Birdman325]

It depends if I am on a road trip on the highway and need to conserve, or if my wife is in the car etc, but around town, just me I am usually between 19 and 19.5 with fan on 2.

 

[Marius A]

19.5C on auto all year

 

[Webeevdrivers]

19.5C on auto all year

Interesting. In summer we are obviously dressed different but we both find the mid 20's a lot more comfortable and less of a shock getting out of the car. It gets hot here though. We are in the Okanagan valley in British Columbia Canada and can hit 40 from time to time. ugh.

Cheers.

 

[M3BlueGeorgia]

70F

 

[jjrandorin]

/e googles a Fahrenheit to Celsius calendar to convert to the numbers everyone but the US uses.....

Google says I have my car set at 21.1c (70F), and I set it that way year round (but live someplace that has temperate weather, where it doesnt snow, and rarely gets below (/e converts again....7.2c (45F). I also dont deal at all with snow, and my normal outdoor winter temperatures where I live and work is (/e converts again..15.5 to 21c).

 

[Big Earl]

Hi all. It came up in conversation the other day. Just curious where people have things set for the winter. Our comfort zone seems to be

TEMP 18 degrees.
Seats on low.
HVAC manual with recirc on speed 1.

Our winter temps are seldom below minus 10.

Note. We take it off recirc if it windows fog up.

You should get a CO2 meter and see what the concentration is in your car with the HVAC on recirc for extended periods of time. I'll bet it's >2000 PPM.

I run 69F on auto for most of the year. I'll usually select fresh air mode rather than auto-recirculate unless it's super hot and humid outside. I only use manual recirculate for brief periods of time when in smelly conditions like following a jalopy or in industrial zones. If the floor heat gets too carried away in automatic mode, which it often does in cold weather, I'll set it on a manual fan speed of 2 - 4, which seems to solve the problem.

 

[Webeevdrivers]

You should get a CO2 meter and see what the concentration is in your car with the HVAC on recirc for extended periods of time. I'll bet it's >2000 PPM.

I run 69F on auto for most of the year. I'll usually select fresh air mode rather than auto-recirculate unless it's super hot and humid outside. I only use manual recirculate for brief periods of time when in smelly conditions like following a jalopy or in industrial zones. If the floor heat gets too carried away in automatic mode, which it often does in cold weather, I'll set it on a manual fan speed of 2 - 4, which seems to solve the problem.

Interesting on the CO2 thing. Thanks for the post.

 

[Gasaraki]

You should get a CO2 meter and see what the concentration is in your car with the HVAC on recirc for extended periods of time. I'll bet it's >2000 PPM.

I run 69F on auto for most of the year. I'll usually select fresh air mode rather than auto-recirculate unless it's super hot and humid outside. I only use manual recirculate for brief periods of time when in smelly conditions like following a jalopy or in industrial zones. If the floor heat gets too carried away in automatic mode, which it often does in cold weather, I'll set it on a manual fan speed of 2 - 4, which seems to solve the problem.

Does the auto setting ever use the foot well vents for heating? In all my other cars they do but i've never seen my Tesla use teh foot vents on auto.

 

[Big Earl]

Yes, almost always, while blending cooler air from the dash vents. My 3 sometimes gets too carried away with the foot heat in auto mode, which is when I switch to manual control. Early Model Ses were notorious for poor floor heat, so maybe Tesla overcorrected with the programming. Dual zone temp control doesn’t work well in the 3, either. I run the system in single zone mode almost exclusively.

Surprisingly, our 3 behaves the same now as it did when it was new. I expected HVAC improvements with software updates over time.

edit and note to self: try dual zone in manual mode as opposed to auto mode.

 

[KenC]

Hi all. It came up in conversation the other day. Just curious where people have things set for the winter. Our comfort zone seems to be

TEMP 18 degrees.
Seats on low.
HVAC manual with recirc on speed 1.

Our winter temps are seldom below minus 10.

Note. We take it off recirc if it windows fog up.

Since my car is outside, I have to dress for outside, and I don't take my coat off just because I'm in the car; so, 18C or 65F, seats usually low, but sometimes medium, fan on 1 or 2, set usually for windshield or feet, with recirc. I have a heated leather steering wheel cover as well, but I usually keep my driving gloves on.

 

[Gasaraki]

I do like the seat heaters in the 3 compared to my other cars before. In my other cars, i never go above level one because they are lava on anything above one and even on one, I turn it off after a bit.

 

[Ev_Rider]

72 F or roughly 22C year round

 

[Chisale]

70F in summer. 66F in winter.

 

[Sklith]

21c summer, 18.5 winter.

Sometimes, I love to set the heated seats to full blast but normally I just leave it at minimum when it's cold.

 

[TraumaDoc]

Same as my house.

18.5 all year round, no ac, no recirc, fans to 3.

Seats on while I'm charging and watching Netflix.

 

[puckpurnell]

21° summer & winter

 

[Tres_Azul]

AC set to Lo, fan on 2-10. Usually on fresh air. Same as summer.

 

[chdavis]

21 or 20.5, auto

all year