J4CKO

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What cars have the most effective aircon, our Sharan has it and it does cool but I remember cars in the states having it so cold you cant keep your hand in front of the vent !

My Saab doesnt have it, so turbo engine + 32 degree heat = unbearable, my brother in laws one has it but its not that great. Had an old Audi 100 years ago and that had it, bloody chilly when it worked but it just got rid of the gas inside six months.

MikT

Honda's are notorious for having extremely cold air con. I have had a few cars with air con, including 2 honda's, and would have to agree that it has defo been the best.

stilover

Audi's seem to be one of the best around. My old man's had Audi's for years now, and after justa few minutes, your shivering.

My Impreza's on the other hand is cr@p. Barely gets you cold.

Renaults are the worst I've been in. Still sweating with it on full blast

KiwiGTI

BMW's is rubbish too (E60 530i). Always found Toyotas to be excellent, anyone who has sat in a Bangkok Taxi will probably agree.

Brendan Hughes

My Toyota's isn't much good, and is new. Maybe EU market spec is different to Bangkok?

ScoobyDoo555

My Audi S4's climate control is AMAZING. In the 30 degree heat today, got in the car and it was COLD with 2 mins

love it

Dan

KiwiGTI

To be honest I've found aircon doesn't work well anywhere in the UK, in shops, offices or cars.

wilftwo

In my Audi A8 yesterday I noticed condensation on my breath (like you get on a cold day) when I directed the fan at me - beat that

paulg1979

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Had a VW golf with climate and could breathe steam when it was really cold and i'm being serious!!

AndyC_772

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You guys are depressing me now! I was thinking yesterday how much better the system in my E46 3-series was compared to my previous two Imprezas, but it certainly wasn't making the car 'cold' within a couple of minutes. With it on full blast it was certainly nice, but never in any danger of being described as over-powered.

Seems I have a knack for picking systems that aren't very good... maybe it just needs a re-gas? The car's less than two years old, though.

paulg1979

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Have you seen the advertising boards for Kwik Fit. Apparently they can gaurantee colder air conditioning. Apparenty some car manufacturers over fill with gas which affects how cold your AC gets so you could be the unlucky one.

Jonathan Davies

Imprezas are pretty poor on that front I reckon. My Jag is so-so: very very cold, but could be quicker to get there. But it's ten years old, so I don't think that's too bad.

Scoobedoo

Impreza was ok although used to blow warm on accelerating.

Skoda's seem to blow cold all the time

*Sonic*

Imprezas work like that due to the air con pump switching off when the engine is under load (ie accelerating) cruise again and it comes back on

My Scoob Air Con was lovely and cold, too cold most of the time, so much that I had to keep turning it right down

Scoobedoo

yeah, true enough I have actually heard that somewhere else.

Preferred the Impreza in that it was semi-auto and not crummy Climate control which takes the ability to turn it off away.

Fabioso

I hate the heat and have had air-con on my last 5 cars. I have always found it cold enough in fact I normally only have to switch it on for a few mins and then turn it off its that cold and efficient.

From my experience I have always found air-con very effective, didn't realise on some cars its ****e

Just must have been lucky I guess.

lsandie

i think renaults have very cold air con compared to some other cars.

TopBanana

The advanced climate option is supposed to be better

Stainy

Only noticed today that the radiator fan comes in and out with the air-con to keep it nice and cool (at least it does when at stand still.)Quite impressed with how cold mine was today tbh (04 WRX)

KiwiGTI

Had that, still didn't seem cold. But then again I like it icy.

TopBanana

Standard one must be really rubbish then!

StiX

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My Seat Leon Cupra is much, much better/colder (digital climate) than my MY00 Impreza which has just been regassed.

Set it to 18 deg c, on Auto and leave it. Soon icy.

My Impreza today, had to leave the fan on 3. 2 and 1 were not cold enough.

Tim-Grove

My fiats aircon is awesome. Had to open the window up today to let some warm air back in it was that cold. Shame about the rest of the car

Petem95

Yep Audi aircon is excellent - went out for lunch today, and within minutes of driving off it was icey cold in the car - yet 32degrees outside!

They use pretty much the best (brand) aircon compressors available (whereas VW's use cheaper brands - one of the little differences between VW and Audi - you dont JUST pay for the badge!)

logiclee

Just a few cars I can think of.

Old shape Octavia, not bad but took a bit of time to cool.
Focus, felt ice cold from vents but didn't cool the interior.
Alfa 156 totaly crap.
Scooby classic, only slightly better than the Alfa.
Fabia, good but takes time to cool interior.
New Fiesta, slightly better than Fabia.
Last E Class - excellent
Last 5 series - excellent
Old Mondeo - fair
New Mondeo - Very Good.
New A4 - Very Good.
X type - see Mondeo.
By far the best and quickest I've felt is, suprisingly, a Rover 75.

Cheers
Lee

pete1977

We use a Ford excursion over here (temps reached 117F today) and the aircon does the job just nicely.

fivestring

My Forester is good, only need to keep it on the low setting if the car has not been in the sun. No problems, but then the car's done less than 20,000 miles and is less than 3 years old. My previous car a Mitsi VR4 was equally as good.

I think generally Jap and yank cars a/c seems to be more hardy than Euro cars.

Trucker Ted

Remember guys, airc-con is for comfort,its not supposed to be like a fridge, in fact it isn't a good idea to be driving around in an ice box then getting out into warm temps outside,used to get warned of this regularly when abroad with the truck, as a lot of older boys would get out and drop like stones.

Although must admit the scoob isn't as cold as my brothers BMW!

ScoobyDoo555

have to admit I did this by accident the other week - got to work, opened the door and nearly passed out.

DIdn't have the temp set low, but still came as a shock when I opened the door

Dan

watto52

just re-gase my rover 600 and that seems pretty cold especially compared to my dads vectra and my mates xantia