nosuchthing
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I finally got to try the heater.
I expected instant heat like, say a hair dryer. Not happening. I put the temp at 90 (highest) and ran it at lowest fan speed. Lukeworm at best. I got tired of that fast and cranked up the fan to the middle. It took 1-2 minutes to finally feel the heat and warm up the car (outside temp about 40 F). I turned the fan down to one notch afterwards and it seemed fine with the heat output finally holding. So it actually works when needed.
Here is my suggestion for improvement. In older cars a turn knob does the analog temp setting that takes about 1 second to turn. In the last 20 years I have always kept it at 3 positions: cold, hot or middle of the range. I do not want to spend 15 seconds doing click click clik click and more click click clik clik up to 30 times to get from the battery-saving 60 F to range-anxiety producing 90 F and another 30 clicks to get back to 60 F again.
If Nissan thinks we need this degree-by-degree obesessive temp management then they need to change the clicking to holding the button that allows FOR FAST NUMBER RUN. Right now when I hold the button down it goes SOOOO SLOW that it is actually faster to change the numbers by going click click click.
Secondly, since most of the drivers I observed are like me, which is, hot cold or middle, why don't you, Nissan, just change the temp to increments of 5 as in 60, 65, 70, 75 ... all the way to 90. It will be scalable by 6 clicks, not 30 with pretty much the same result.
I expected instant heat like, say a hair dryer. Not happening. I put the temp at 90 (highest) and ran it at lowest fan speed. Lukeworm at best. I got tired of that fast and cranked up the fan to the middle. It took 1-2 minutes to finally feel the heat and warm up the car (outside temp about 40 F). I turned the fan down to one notch afterwards and it seemed fine with the heat output finally holding. So it actually works when needed.
Here is my suggestion for improvement. In older cars a turn knob does the analog temp setting that takes about 1 second to turn. In the last 20 years I have always kept it at 3 positions: cold, hot or middle of the range. I do not want to spend 15 seconds doing click click clik click and more click click clik clik up to 30 times to get from the battery-saving 60 F to range-anxiety producing 90 F and another 30 clicks to get back to 60 F again.
If Nissan thinks we need this degree-by-degree obesessive temp management then they need to change the clicking to holding the button that allows FOR FAST NUMBER RUN. Right now when I hold the button down it goes SOOOO SLOW that it is actually faster to change the numbers by going click click click.
Secondly, since most of the drivers I observed are like me, which is, hot cold or middle, why don't you, Nissan, just change the temp to increments of 5 as in 60, 65, 70, 75 ... all the way to 90. It will be scalable by 6 clicks, not 30 with pretty much the same result.