Hello there,
I tried to look through many of the posts as I could here, and searched too.
Has anyone brought up anything about the climate control system being set to "low", the max setting, and have the system slowing your fan to nearly stopping?
Specifically with mine, here in Albuquerque it gets in the upper 90s and lower 100s. Well I can start my truck (temp us saying it's 180 outside), drive 5 minutes and get to a car wash (outside temp down to 100). Then when I go through the car wash, my outside temp will read 70 or less after the wash.
This drop in temperature (i think is a drop below 70) causes my low set ac to slow to a dip and it won't get back to blowing until outside temperature is well into the 80s (usually 8 or do minutes of driving). I can take the climate control off auto and get it to blow sometimes, but not always.
To compound this problem, if I'm parked, put up a sun shade, running the climate control on low my 'supposed' outside temperature will start dropping, sometimes very rapidly. Once it gets under that threshold temperature it will start slowing and stopping the climate control system. I've seen the outside temperature, on a 100+ day, say the temperature is 56.
So I'm thinking the problems I'm having are two fold. First being some sort of software issue is forcing my climate control to not actually run max seeing at all times when set to low.
Secondly the outside temperature sensor either does 1 or more of a few things such as; reads in the vehicle cab and outside to determine actual temperature (don't think it's this one), or it is in that little bubble in the dash up by the windshield. I'm thinking this bubble used IR to read the temperature outside. Think like the laser thermometers you can buy.
Honestly I think this second problem is because if that bubble reading outside temperature and when the windshield is covered it only reads the temp of what's covering it, like a sun visor. I proved this several times, by first getting the temperature in can stable at low setting, still running max speed, then put up my sun shade, in about 5 minutes my outside temp will start dropping. I repeated this at least 5 or 6 times and it roasts perfectly. Lowest temp I got going this on a 100 degree day was 56.
These false temperatures keep making things annoying. And just add to the list of things driving me away from MOPAR. I am still a huge fan though, just annoyed with these trucks. My challenge and charger are great, other than the charger runs half speed climate control fan in the summer but full speed fan in the winter for some weird reason.
Thank you,
Taessi
(This doesn't belong here i can remove it)
Another big issue I've been having is the horribly designed rear breaking automated system. I've left probably 30 skid for makes in my drive way because my drive was is slammed and causes this to trigger. I've disabled that safety feature, I liked it in my other vehicles but my rebel and the 2020 1500 bighorn I drove are implemented horribly.
