As if you’re not hot enough, you open your car door, sit down, and a haze flashes over your eyes as you feel like you’ve entered a sauna. Your AC at full blast will take 4 minutes just to make a dent in this heat. The heat is so intense that you’ll have to change your shirt for the second time today and take your third shower!
A hot car is unavoidable in summer months, but there are 4 ways to minimize and control the heat:
- Lower all windows 1/4 inch. Nobody’s going to steal your car, break your windows, or vandalize you. If they want into your car, they’ll get in no matter where your windows are, so don’t be paranoid…lower every window a quarter inch.
- Place a white towel on your dashboard. Your dashboard, laying flat in your windshield, gets the most direct exposure of any area of your interior. A large white towel can reduce interior temps 20%!
- Use a sunshade. Not pretty, but these do work. Autoshades.com has a variety of applications.
- Tint your windows. We tint windows at our Beaverton location. Genuine SunTek film installed by experienced techs. Lifetime warranty. 30 day comeback for any flaw of any size.
- Install a remote car starter. Start your car from within your home/apartment with the A/C on and jump into a cool car 5 minutes later.
Use as many of these as you can, as consistently as you can, and you can avoid a lot of discomfort during your summer driving trips.