Managing AC Expectations

[Eric Eliel]

OK guys, Its 90 degrees out in Texas (or CA or AZ for that matter) and 30% humidity. Your car has been sitting out in the sun for 3 hours or so. How long does it take your a/c system to remove the heat in your car to make it comfortable?

Are we trying to overcome general physics and expect the car to be comfortable within 5 minutes?

(I'm especially interested to hear from Morrison with his parallel flow setup).

Do tinted windows work well at reducing the load when the car is first started up? How would you rate the tint's ability to reduce the heat load on a scale of 1 to 10?