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Old 09-28-2006, 10:22 AM
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Talking Re: Rear Wind Defroster Very Unimpressive

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Originally Posted by MFLetou
Ok, so one of the few complaints I have with my TCH is that the rear window defroster stinks.

I don't know if there's a problem with mine, or if its everyone's. Today, it was fogged up wtih mist--just normal fall morning stuff. I took a solid 12 minutes for the window to clear. For most of that time, I couldn't see a thing.

Now, I'm coming from a bunch of GM vehicles. Most of them had a lot of problems, but the rear window defrosters are great. They have a zone system that clears a middle portion first (in under a minute easily) so you can see something out back there, and in 5 minutes everything is pretty much gone. Even winter frost cleared quickly. This kind of frost today would have taken probably 2 minutes, max, for the whole rear window.

So this TCH performance is disappointing and rather annoying.
Matt, Look and see if you have the ECO switch activated, if so deactivate it and it may send more current to the defogger. SK

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