Funny, we have the exact same vehicles.. Anyway, I used mine today with the top down and a dash board reading of 90 degrees. It worked fine.

 

Yep, always cools the car right away, despite black interior in south Florida. One of the best advances over the old air-cooled cars is that we now have "real" A/C.

 

We all know this is a joke, we rather push our Porsches than drive Toyotas.

 

Tippy: Yes, it was meant to be a joke ...I guess I forgot the smiley

 

My wife was going for an overnight vacation and meet up with our daughter earlier today in another town. She didn't want to take her Boxster because she's afraid to leave it parked outside overnight at the hotel and such. But her '06 Lexus 400h Hybrid with 11k miles broke down and will have to be flatbedded to the dealer. So much for Toyota reliability.

She will have a new appreciation for her Boxster, I'm sure.

 

I checked my vent temps with an OAT of about 90 degrees and got 51 degrees from the center vent. Colder than my wifes Toyota

 

Toyotas come with A/C? Is that standard or optional?

 

Yup, always works. Now if I just could get over the weird way the controls work.
A lot of button pushing ...

 

I use the manual setting too. It is 90+F here and I noticed the air temperature set at 69 deg was not as effecient as it was a couple weeks ago.

My solution -turn temp down to 64 deg.

There has to be a way to re-charge the system.

Now lets find out how.

 

Yes, only when I'm not WOT, which isn't very often. And no it's not cold as soon as I start my car but once I get moving it cools down quite well.

 

Our 1999 a/c blows nice and cold but It did require a repair a few year ago. I'm not sure what the part number is, but it is a line that runs under the car from the engine (presumably compressor) to the front condensor. Not too cheap, and it was back-ordered over a month so I'm assuming it may be a common fault. The a/c works far better than our ML, but I'm not sure as well as our old 928 did. On a side note, we still have a 2000 Cavalier Z24 (no jokes please - it was my car at university and now my fathers daily run about - and possibly the most reliable car we've had..) and it has by far a better a/c system than any German car, new or otherwise we've ever owned. If there is one thing the American's can do it's a/c!

 

Yes.....I LOVE my a/c...due to the fact that my air cooled targa's a/c was basically non existent. It was ninety here today.....no issues with the a/c....never really had it over half blast too long. I did notice some outside fogging btw....just a bit...nothing that obscured my view.

I do notice however that in the center vents....the left vent blows a bit less than the right...anyone else have that? and yes...both vents are fully open with the side adjustment.

J

 

Mine gets high marks on the "Nipple Meter" and I turn it on briefly whenever I drive the car in the Fall and Winter.

 

Uh oh....

 

I have seen some triple digit temps in bright sun here the past week. It has mostly been ~95, but it most certainly has been triple digit at times. AC is enough to freeze you out, even with the fabric top.

100% it works better than my ML.