How to save yourself from the heat if there is no air conditioning in the car

Even if the car has an air conditioner or air conditioning system, it is not insured against malfunctions, and this happens during the most inopportune summer period. We have to remember all those tricks that made it possible to survive in a heated cabin at a time when car air conditioners were a rare exotic.

True, then it was easier, the intensity of traffic in the cities was absent. But the physical principles have not changed, and they help a lot.

How to prepare your car for the heat

The value of many useful little things in a car is known only after they are taken care of in advance.

Regarding heat, their list boils down to methods of protection against external solar thermal radiation, as well as removal of excess temperature from interior elements and directly from passengers:

• A lot of thermal energy comes from heating the outer and inner body panels.

Remembering physics, we can distinguish two ways of protection - reflect energy or absorb. In the first case, a light color will help. Ideally - mirror, but this is not allowed by law. If the car is white - that's great, you can notice the predominance of such colors in the southern regions.

For the rest, we can recommend pasting at least the roof with a white film, which does not apply to repainting and does not require changes to the documents. Energy absorption works in tinted windows.

It’s impossible to protect everything, but the rear hemisphere already helps a lot, and the windshield and front side ones come with partial dimming - athermal, but only factory-made, it’s difficult to catch the right line between comfort and safety on your own.

• Simple, but effective is a conventional electric fan.

No wonder it can be seen in aircraft cabins. This is a great tool for life without air conditioning, many believe that it is no worse.

There are also those who blow through the built-in wet filter, this device is able to lower the air temperature at the outlet of the stream. Although there will be no miracle, it does not replace air conditioning.

• The interior should not have any seat trim and other elements in dark colors.

You can use white covers and other screens, they quite tolerably reflect solar energy back through the glazing that lets it through. Anyone who at least once, forgetting, sat on a black leather seat after parking in the sun, he understands how important this is.

But still, the best way to prepare will be timely repair or refueling of the air conditioner. Now cars without it are already very rare.

How to prevent overheating of the car in the parking lot

Technical means of protection against heat must be supplemented by the simplest operational methods. Starting with the elementary - the car must be washed, dirt even from a white body makes it heat-absorbing.

Parking in the shade

Even a heavy-duty climate won't help if you mindlessly park a car, especially a dark-colored one with the same interior, in the open sun.

It is better to go a little further, but at the same time be able to immediately get into the car without cooling it after parking, and this takes more time than even warming up the interior in winter.

Seat, steering wheel and glass heaters are much more common than their cooling or ventilation.

sunblinds

In the rear hemisphere, the glazing blinds can be used permanently, moving them only when maneuvering. It is very convenient when they are equipped with an electric drive.

Front side and windshield use is allowed only during parking, regardless of their degree of transparency.

But in the parking lot you can put at least mirror ones, they are the most effective. The main thing is not to forget to deploy them when leaving the car.

Opening the cabin windows

On the move, open windows work no worse than an air conditioner. But in the city, the car costs more than it rides, and this happens in the most climatically unpleasant places with heavy traffic. And no one canceled the drafts, and it is extremely undesirable to catch a cold in the summer.

Therefore, it is worth not fully opening the windows, but slightly opening them by turning on the standard fan. At the same time, making sure that the path of hot liquid through the heater, or heated air from its radiator, where there is no stove tap, is reliably blocked.

You may even have to turn to service station specialists so that they completely block the circulation of liquid through the stove for the summer. Although this is dangerous, sometimes the heater can save when the engine overheats.

Protective case

In the old days of automobiles, few people left a car in a sunny parking lot without an overall cover. These covers were purchased ready-made for a specific car or sewn independently from light, but dense matter.

Under the cover, the car stood with the windows ajar, and all this worked perfectly, you could immediately get into the car without burns and discomfort.

Now few people do this, the car receives much less attention, having become widely available. But this is not about saving his paint from the external environment, a white cover will work better than any air conditioner.

And the time spent on its deployment and dismantling is much less than on cooling the cabin after a hot day.

Interior humidification

Moisture itself does not save, rather, on the contrary, dry heat is easier to bear. The essence of the effect is different - if you blow air through a wet cloth, the liquid evaporates, taking away energy.

There is a decrease in temperature, almost air conditioning. You can throw a wet rag on the deflectors, it will become noticeably cooler in the cabin when the fan is running.

How to cool the cabin on a trip without air conditioning

If you need to leave quickly, and you can’t even just get into the car, then you can wait a long time for natural cooling through open windows and doors.

It will help to wipe the seats, steering wheel and other elements with a wet towel. This should be taken care of in advance by placing everything you need in the car, including a supply of water. It will take quite a lot, a single wipe will not cool everything right away.

What to do in the heat in a traffic jam

The variable mode of acceleration and stops creates the danger of powerful drafts with the windows of all doors fully open. Aerodynamics only help if it's a specially designed convertible and not an urban sedan or hatchback.

In other cases, it is better to open the rear windows and turn on the fan. The air will begin to be updated, but without excessive blowing of overheated passengers, in addition, the cabin filter, if any, will be activated.

The direct exposure of the driver and passengers during stops will be kept to a minimum as far as possible from the emission of polluted atmosphere.

But constantly moving around in such conditions is still possible only with fully working climate control with all types of filtration - dust, coal and antibacterial.