Condensation on Windscreen

boyracer · Post by **boyracer** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:05 am

Forgive the sudden barrage of questions. One year on and 29,000kms later, who would've thought there'd be any questions left to ask ?

Most of you guys live in colder, more miserable climates than we experience here in Sydney. So, I'm wondering whether you have the same problem with condensation that I seem to get whenever I try to demist the windscreen. Never had any drama with any other car !

Basically, condensation starts creeping up the windscreen. And unless you have the windscreen wipers on as well, it just keeps creeping up until visibility is reduced to nil. The only other way to reduce the condensation seems to be to set the temperature in the car greater than the temperature outside the car. This is not always a comfortable solution in Summer, but I've found that it does get rid of the condensation.

Anybody got any thoughts ?

andrew · Post by **andrew** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:03 am

A little, but not the entire windscreen, and only when using the air con .....
sorry I cant go into to much detail as someone might imply something again

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:19 am

air con on permanently is my remedy

Post by **Lyndon** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:38 pm

no probs about the questions keep um coming

Nicck · Post by **Nicck** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:04 am

I had ice on the inside of my windscreen this morning

andrew · Post by **andrew** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:23 am

my wipers froze to the windscreen yesterday ... i had to scrape the ice away around them i dont think thats ever happened before

boyracer · Post by **boyracer** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:47 am

So I guess what you're all saying is that I should be grateful its only condensation and not a block of ice ?

Nicck · Post by **Nicck** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:41 am

yes leave the whinging to us poms

chaos · Post by **chaos** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:02 pm

I was advised by my pug dealer that the condensation on my windows was caused by a blocked pollen filter. They changed that and it seems ok to me now.

boyracer · Post by **boyracer** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:50 am

Thanks Chaos, sounds like a good tip. It'z bizarre 'cos no other car I've had has done this. Do you know if this is something I can do for myself or is a PUG service thing that only PUG people can deal with ?

Nicck - you forget: Australia is where the worst of the worst poms were sent many years ago. Generations of in-breeding over a couple of hundred years has enabled us to perfect any and all defects in behaviour, and our isolation from the rest of the world means there's no one to watch over us. We've 'improved' our skills now. We have perfected whinging and everything else to pure art forms ! ;-)

chaos · Post by **chaos** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:03 pm

I'm not to sure to be honest. They mentioned it to me and I just told them to change it. I dont think its a complicated job, and if its anything like an air filter, I would say you could possibly do it yourself, but I am guessing.

Haynes manual time I think.

boyracer · Post by **boyracer** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:26 am

I dropped by at the service centre today.

The pollen filter is a card approx. 12" x 6" x 3/4" and lies horizontally under the windscreen.

Basically, from under the bonnet, you reach in up under the windscreen from where the air vent plastic dish type thing is (my build plate is riveted to this plastic thing). There's a knack to sliding it out, but there are no clips or screws or anything else to undo.

Apparently, this filter is replaced every 40,000kms.