Hate to bust in on this thread, but since my comment relates to 124s, maybe you all will forgive me. Suginami's comments about the system going to full it interior temp is 4 degrees out of whack either way and Larry's comments about setting and forgetting reminded me about this.

One of the most ridiculous sets of comments about my TE that I've ever heard came from someone I was dating a couple of years ago. The car actually was going to be hers, but...anyway...this person complained that the climate control system was too loud at the beginning of trips. (This in the middle of the usual very hot summer in Northern California....) The other part of that set of comments was that she didn't understand the ridiculousness of wheeling the temperature setting all the way in either direction. "I want it colder" was a stock phrase, when we'd just gotten into the car on a hot day and the system was already in overdrive trying to cool that enormous greenhouse down.

As long as I'm on this rant, the most ridiculous comment/question I've ever fielded in connection with my other automotive love, BMWs, came from the new owner of a 2002 5-Series who looked at the sound system in the dash of her new Bimmer and said to me "You're in securities. Are there special stations with market updates?"

(She referred to the "Business" designation on the sound system.)

It is purely coincidental that those two anecdotes involve women, but it also explains why I'm not involved with either one of them anymore.

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David

His:
2003 Dodge Durango SLT
2002 BMW E39 530i Sport
1988 Mercedes 300TE
Hers:
2003 Chevrolet Suburban
1999 E430