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A self-proclaimed car expert is turning heads on TikTok after sharing a surprisingly simple trick to cool down your car faster in the summer heat.<\/p>\n
Cole (@6spd.e38), who describes himself as \u201ca car guy trying to make it online,\u201d recently posted what he called a \u201csummer tip\u201d for anyone roasting in a parked car. The video, seemingly aimed at drivers without garage parking, had pulled in more than 54,100 views as of this writing.<\/p>\n
When you climb into a scorching car, your first instinct might be to blast the A\/C or roll the windows down, but Cole said not so fast.<\/p>\n
Instead, he advised rolling the windows down first to vent the hot air. Then, flip the A\/C on\u2014but make sure the air recirculation setting is off. (That\u2019s the button with a U-turn arrow inside a car icon, usually near the A\/C controls.)<\/p>\n
\u201cThis button, when it\u2019s lit up, means it\u2019s recirculating the air from inside the vehicle \u2026 through the air conditioning,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
By leaving recirculation off at first, you let the system flush out the hot air. After a few minutes, roll the windows back up, turn recirculation on, and the cabin should cool down much faster.<\/p>\n
\u201cWorks way better than just cranking the A\/C to max and leaving the windows shut,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Motor1<\/em> hasn\u2019t tested the tip firsthand, but several car experts say the logic tracks. One YouTuber backed the idea<\/a>, recommending drivers switch off air recirculation on hot days to cool their car faster.\u00a0<\/p>\n Recirculation mode has its benefits\u2014but not when your car\u2019s been sitting in the sun. With it on, the A\/C just recycles the already-hot cabin air, forcing the system to work overtime. Turning it off allows the system to pull in outside air, which\u2014even on a sweltering day\u2014is often cooler than what\u2019s inside.<\/p>\n As one Quora<\/a> user put it, letting in that fresh air can make a noticeable difference during the first few minutes of cooling.<\/p>\n Of course, recirculation isn\u2019t all bad. It\u2019s great for blocking out odors or keeping things cool once the cabin\u2019s already at a comfortable temp. In winter, though, the strategy changes: Keeping recirculation off helps prevent foggy windows caused by trapped moisture.<\/p>\n In a statement to Motor1<\/em>, Cole explained that the tip is grounded in basic HVAC principles.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s simple,\u201d he said. \u201cThe hotter the air is going through the A\/C system (of a house or a car), the longer it\u2019s going to take to cool it down. Letting out the extremely hot air from inside your car and letting it get to ambient temperature, even if that\u2019s 95 degrees outside, is going to speed up cooling down the air inside the car no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cSo open the windows or doors, let that super hot air out, pull in air from outside by turning off the recirculation function, and then after a [few] minutes the air inside the car will be the same temperature as outside\u2014as opposed to 120+ degrees like it was when you got into the car, and then you circulate the air inside the car and the A\/C works a lot quicker that way.\u201d<\/p>\n Plenty of drivers were grateful for the easy summer A\/C hack, saying they had no idea a simple adjustment could cool their car so quickly.<\/p>\n \u201cGreat advice!\u201d one user wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOmg I never knew this,\u201d another added.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI love a good tip,\u201d said a third. \u201cThanks, man.\u201d<\/p>\n Not everyone was sold, though. A few viewers pointed out limitations, most tied to specific car setups.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have windows,\u201d one joked.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMine won\u2019t turn off without also turning off the air conditioning,\u201d another said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWrong! Read your owner\u2019s manual,\u201d a third chimed in.<\/p>\n But Cole pushed back: \u201cI\u2019m literally an HVAC tech, that\u2019s how it works best, trust me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A self-proclaimed car expert is turning heads on TikTok after sharing a surprisingly simple trick to cool down ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Viewers Applaud the Expert for Sharing the Tip\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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