Air-conditioning, in the context of being parked
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 4:12 pm
I suppose many of us owners of recently-produced Polos have had the terribly unpleasant experience of climbing into the driver's seat on a boiling hot summer's day, after having left the car parked out in the open, only to find the cabin interior like the veritable centre of a furnace, and then, worse still, being burnt on then touching the steering-wheel. Certainly, sunroofs - many of which you could afford to leave partially open but still in a secured state - have become less popular and don't seem to be fitted as standard any more. Consequently, this tendency for the car's interior to transform into a heatbox in the summer has become more pronounced.
What I'd like to ask is whether, aside from taking some obvious but small counter-measures, there's anything clever that can be done with the Polo's air-conditioning (AC) and security systems to mitigate this. I mean, is it at all possible to have the AC running while the car's parked, locked and the driver and passengers absent - for, say, an hour or two? Clearly, from a security standpoint, you can't afford to leave, in a public place, one or more windows open, even partially.
What I'd like to ask is whether, aside from taking some obvious but small counter-measures, there's anything clever that can be done with the Polo's air-conditioning (AC) and security systems to mitigate this. I mean, is it at all possible to have the AC running while the car's parked, locked and the driver and passengers absent - for, say, an hour or two? Clearly, from a security standpoint, you can't afford to leave, in a public place, one or more windows open, even partially.