I actually have the opposite issue. I never want recirc, I like the induction of fresh outside air, I live in a clean air area. When it's hot and running AC it will switch on its own to recirc even without setting on Max.
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Recirculate Setting?
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I've been complaining about this for a year. It is especially bad when you have allergies & asthma and it turns off after every single minute. Once it's over 60 degrees outside it will stay on & sometimes even be on after starting & stopping the vehicle. We are surrounded by chicken houses & my recirculate will not stay on long enough to get to the end of my driveway. Total crap.
And so now, I stead of the SLIGHT possibility of breathing your own exhaust in the car, we have to breathe every ody else's going down the road, PLUS everybody's cigarettes & joints & chicken crap. I can recirculate for 1 minute & instead of watching the road, I stare at the button waiting for the light to turn off so I can switch it back on ASAP over & over again & hope I'm fast enough to keep something else from coming in & being trapped in there with me. Great fix Ford. I used to be your biggest fan...
It happens whether you are heating, cooling, have vent or A/C on. It doesn't matter.
My hubby's 2022 F250 doesn't turn off unless you have defrost on. We got it 4 months before my Bronco finally arrived.
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I get that randomly. The faster you go, the harder your vents blow. That shows you something isn't right with the whole system
I also have all these issues. It is very NOT ok when the floor vents don't blow or the heat decides it won't go warm when it's 7 degrees outside & my feet are numb before I can get to work. FORD NEEDS TO FIX ALL OF THIS!!
So like everything else in this cry baby world, one idiot screwed it up for everybody else
AMEN! if someone is too stupid to try to get rid of exhaust inside the car, THEY are the problem. Ford needs to stop forcing us to choke on everything else. Guess who's getting sued if I wreck or die from having an asthma attack from not being able to block out things that cause me problems?
Same here. This was horrible when I had a 4 hr drive on the highway at -40. The heater could only keep up if it was on recirc and it constantly shuts off.
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I upgraded from a standard BD package to the mid this past weekend. The options for where to blow the air are now on the screen where before I could manually control them. I noticed that on the mid package I’d have the air set on Level 1 & it would blow ridiculously. I didn’t have this problem on the standard package. So much for technology.
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I was experiencing this stupid phenomenon this weekend. Went on a weekend get away with the family and there happened to be a crap ton of skunks in the area.
Stupid recirculating kept turning itself back off. It would go longer than 1 minute, but not stay on.
Did some brief research, and started finding out about how this is all designed, how it measures the humidity, bunch of BS.
The only fix I read about was a guy on a F-150 forum who actually installed a toggle switch to cut the power from the blend door.
So he would turn the recirc on, then flip the switch and the vehicle couldn't reopen the door.
I can't imagine people living in highly smog cities that get stuck behind diesel trucks for an hour during their morning commute!
Stupid recirculating kept turning itself back off. It would go longer than 1 minute, but not stay on.
Did some brief research, and started finding out about how this is all designed, how it measures the humidity, bunch of BS.
The only fix I read about was a guy on a F-150 forum who actually installed a toggle switch to cut the power from the blend door.
So he would turn the recirc on, then flip the switch and the vehicle couldn't reopen the door.
I can't imagine people living in highly smog cities that get stuck behind diesel trucks for an hour during their morning commute!
It may be only on square-backed SUVs, that body style creates a low pressure area around the back of the vehicle while driving, that can cause exhaust to be pulled n through the cabin vents under the body at the rear. Leaving the climate control in the fresh air mode causes the cabin to be slightly pressurized preventing exhaust from being drawn in. Pickups don't have the problem, the exhaust exits under the bed, not the cab.
This was only true for me if the outside air was above 60 degrees. I've had the A/C on at a warm temperature on the floor or face vents to help keep everything from fogging up. I avoid the defrost vents unless absolutely necessary. I need the heat (when it works) only blowing where it can keep me warm. When you actually need it, you can't get it to blow hard enough even when focused on one area.
Yeah, try getting trapped in a drive thru line behind an older diesel, or someone smoking & you can't get away to save your life. They'll find someone dead in a drive thru line one day with everybody honking & wonder what happened. I think I'll make a sign to keep in my vehicle.... "If you find me dead in my Bronco, it's not from my own exhaust. It's from everything else that I was forced to breathe because I couldn't hit the recirculate button again fast enough". I wish I still had my Range Rover. I had to do it every time I restarted the car, but at least I could push & hold the button for a few seconds & it would stay on as long as you didn't turn defrost on.
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