Ok, I live in a area that get's fairly cold and in the mornings when driving my 1hr drive to work my teg's windows ALL fog up unless I do like full blast heat and rear defogger to get the foggy windows to stop or uhh I can drive with a window cracked which then makes me get cold but makes the windows unfoggy... anyone know of anything I can use or do to make my windows not be foggy.. I checked my carpet and none of it is wet.. so I am not having a leak but I am not sure how to deal with this.. any advice is needed.

 

stop getting hot and heavy in the teg? I used to have the same problem Rain-X actually makes an interior anti-fog window cleaner aerosol, worked fine for me last winter.


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There are 2 things I know of first you can take shaving cream and wipe a very thin layer of it on the window. let sit for about 5-10 min and wipe as much off as you can with a terry cloth. And or Rain X makes some fog-X stuff but both will work

 

And all will this stuff work on tinted windows? or will that really make a difference?

 

Well you can do a couple of things that i found to work.

keep your interior windows CLEAN, less stuff for the moisture to stick on the better.

the other thing is to put soap on your windows, like get a bar of soap and rub it(the soap) against the glass.....it will leave marks like chaulk, and then after that remove the soap like removing wax from your car...this works. I didnt come up with this idea, i got it from wrxracer111 on a cold lonely night last year. I wrote a long winded post about how it worked, along with rainX. here's the summary:

Water has two properties of sticking, adhesion and cohesion, adhesion is water sticking to other molecules, cohesion is when it sticks to itself. Water also has pretty high surface tension, this will come into play here.

Wax, and Rainx do the same job. Their purpose is to first make the surface smooth so water cant stick to it easily, nextly form a layer of molecules that are hydrophobic or at the very least, the intermolecular attraction of the water to other water atoms is greater than that to the film. SO basically, since water would rather stick to itself than the waterhating surface, it forms a bead. and viola flies off due to less "attachment" to the surface

clean glass and soap is the other way around. Since glass has a lot of oxygen in it, clean glass tends to be water friendly, and therefore water "wets" it. Water essentially spreads over the glass, not really beading. What soap does is lowers the surface tension of water, therefore making the water to water attraction less strong so it would be more willing to bond with some other molecule, such as glass and what not.

Try it , it works. put some soap on your window in your house, clean it, and blow on it, it shouldnt fog up.

 

LOL. Funny, I read this title and thought I'd post that idea. Anyhow, a variation on that which I tried out at a rainy autocross on member Warren's car uses liquid handsoap instead of the bar soap. It's a little more messy, and takes longer to buff off, but it too does the trick. I just put a little on a paper towel which I smeared all over the windshield, then took another paper, and buffed it off. It works surprisingly well for an ultra-cheap fix. It's worked many a time on me ski-goggles.

 

rainX

 

Try turning the A/C on with the setting on heat. The A/C will dry out the air and stop the window problem

 

This is what I do.

 

I thought it was bad to run heat with your a/c?

 

heat & a/c?

 

I've done it before, not sure if it's a good or a bad thing but it works. I remember reading before on a site i forget which mentioning that the AC stands for air conditioner, not air chiller
so i guess you could use the heat also....i just use normal heat :-/

but i think this individual is fogging up before the engine gets warm enough to let hot air into the cabin...since if you turn the heat on and drive, it takes FOREVER to warm up.... somtimes i would just turn the car on and let it warm up a bit while i start taking snow and ice off the glass and the rest of the car. Hop in and it should be almost good to go. Waste of gas yes, but it's a lot better than driving around perfectly normal and then BOOM instant fog and cant see a THING.

But somtimes when it's cold and rainy, and i hop in the teg it fogs up as well (moisture being emitted by me and the clothing), once again, the defroster and heater usually works in this case, and the case above....

btw does anyone else notice the integra's cabin heating abilities is much greater than it's cooling abilities? aka, the heat is mad hot and the ac is pathetic.

 

Its what its made for. Hondas AC was called All Season Air for just that reason. The Air ir real dry when put through the evaporator...its a nautral de-humidifier.

 

The other thing to check is that you don't have the Recirculate button on. Recirculating cabin air in cold conditions will cause your windows to fog up pretty darn quick. Bring in that fresh air, and use your AC, that's what it's for. Oh...and yes, it's just fine to use the heat with it, in fact, the manual tells you to do this for fogging windows.

 

my windows used to do the same thing and i just turn off the recycle button and it worked. my new civic when i turn on the defrost for the front window the ac comes on and you cant turn it off. its not blowing cold, and it works really well getting the window defogged. so try the ac with the heat.

 

Thank's fellas for all the good advice I will give it all a try... on the way home ill turn the recycled thing off and see if that works and then do the soap

 

wait you normally use the recyle mode? that is most likely the cause of your problem. Even the owners manual said not to use the recirculation button unless you drive through dusty areas because it can cause foggy windows....you did read the manual right j/k
But it really does say that in there.