ScottishRayman

Purchased a 56 plate Hawkeye about 2 months ago and love the car. One small fault that I've come across and unsure if this is a one off fault with my car or anyone else experienced it -

In heavy rain when driving the windscreen totally mists up/steams up to the extent that it is almost impossible to drive the car. When the air fan is up full this has no impact at all, and the windscreen only clears when I put on the air con. Surely I shouldn't need to put on the air con everytime it rains, as god forbid what it would be like all winter!!!!!!!

Any help appreciated guys - car has full year warranty so can take it back to garage for review but curious to see if anyone else experienced problem.

Thanks.

Abx

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Think my old Hawk used to mist up pretty easily, just used to leave the heater controls set to front screen with low fan speed and it seemed to be fine, only got bad if you got in the car wet and it misted up pretty quickly, quick blast of ac and it cleared, never used to bother me though.

Sp33xX

i had this once on an escort took about 2 weeks to find the problem but ended up being that the seal of the front screen had a small air gap after i had it redone was fine. i had the same issue on a vauxhall this was the rear screen same fix,

hope this helps

ReggieMY99

Did you check if the outside circulation has been turned off?

i had this problem a year ago until i realised that i had turned off the circulation from the outside

exactly the same as you describe above happend when it was turned off

uk300scoob

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mine is the same in my 07 wrx

the_big_1

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I cleaned my window with rain x on the inside and it made a big differance.

PRC 126

Had same problem on my 07 sti, brought it back to the dealer and was shown how to overcome this. turn the left hand control to windscreen or windscreen/floor, middle control to auto and the temp control air con light should come on leave it on.
hope that sorts it. dealer told me this was stated in the manual, never checked.

ScottishRayman

PRC 126 - thanks for this. Already had the left hand side to windscreen but not the middle one to auto. Only question on this is, does this mean its really the air con thats kicking in to clear the windscreen as if so surely screen should be able to clear without the high use of air con as that would murder the petrol come winter/bad conditions? If this doesn't mean air con then apologises mate.

Thanks for all the other replies also guys - appreciated.

bodgeit

It happens with most air con vehicles, it could be the pollen filter is damp or/and dirty and the aircon "heat" exchanger usually condenses quite a bit on some vehicles it looks like theres a water leak as water drips from under the car,Oh sometimes you get a bad smell thats another sign that yer pollen filter wants changin...

Black-Hawk

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Make sure the heater control is on new air and not re-circ

bioforger

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I get the exact samething in my Blob 05STi. Quick blast of aircon is the only thing that will clear it. You don't need to keep it on all the time though.

TheVoices

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You should run the aircon all year round anyway, the clue is in the title 'air conditioning'

It isn't just to blow cool air in summer, it de-humidifies damp air to prevent windows steaming up etc. Mine is never turned off on both the scoob and on the company car.

bioforger

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no no aircon on = less power n worse mpg

TheVoices

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I would rather be able to see out of the windows whatever the weather / level of humidity.

You can always add more power to compensate !

MPG = who cares ????????????????????????? (by the way I do about 30k pa and have to pay for my own fuel before you ask !)

LOL !

bioforger

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Like i said a quick blast in wet weather only is sufficient, no need to run it all the time, you're just wasting fuel n power I don't particularly care about the mpg either, but wasting fuel when it can be avoided is just stupid.

ScottishRayman

correct bioforger as certainly not buying a car to have air conditioning on "all the time" certainly when t shouldn't be required, as just a waste.

subeyman

I may be wrong but my mate had this problem on his STI, he told me there was a filter behind the glove box which was literally a couple of screws to get at, he took the filter out cleaned and put back, all good.
Now that may sound like a load of cr*p but im going on what he said? may help lol

bioforger

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Couple of screws eh