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Originally posted by Marky:
Oh I know who it is, just wish he would stay away and take his bad advise and negative comments to another site.
Okay pal WTF I wasnt making a rude comment, not my fault your to dumb to understand what I said.
I said....
"It doesnt say it is the owners manual not to so I dont see why he would for."
He said his friend was slowing down to turn on the A/C, that was my response to it, figure it out yet???????
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I have been around cars with air conditioning for the last 40 years and have never seen a problem with this. Cars are meant to be driven and I turn the air conditioning on at any time, whether it is right at the beginning of the trip or whenever I need it.
Gary Welker
Used to Own a 98.5 T-Red SVT
Now have a 93 Corvette so I am a troll!!!!
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Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Originally posted by RogerB:
Originally posted by Plain ole' todras:
WTF? I think my I.Q. just dropped.
Stupidity by osmosis. 
OK. Let me explain.
Last year? 2 years ago? I don't remember, now because I can't find the thread. It was probably in 2003 when I was looking for info on my AC manifold, because it was leaking, etc.
Anyway, somebody asked about using a shorter serpentine to bypass the AC compressor, and gain a horse or two. The advice given at that time was that a) it was not worth it, and b) that doing so would somehow cause damage to the compressor, because the oil would be allowed to settle.
IOW, the lubricant is not allowed to settle as long as the engine is run periodically, even if the AC is not used. Disconnecting the belt from the AC for a year would be equivalent to parking your car in a barn for a year, and lead to the settling issue cited by Big Jim, which could lead to damage, etc. If you're going to do that, you might as well remove the whole system, etc. At least that was the point made at that time.
I cannot remember the source of this "info," nor can I attest to the reliability. At the time, I must have believed them. I did not mean to put it forth as gospel truth, which is why I said it the way I did.
I had hoped that someone could clear up this disparity, or find the thread, or give me some fact that would reconcile this info with what Jim is saying. I know Jim's a pretty good source, but being of sound mind, and a critical thinker, I just wanted to tie this up.
No IQ problem here, although I see that the collective IQ of Contour owners continues to drop.
Now, if anyone has anything substantive to add to the discussion, I'd appreciate hearing from you. Otherwise, go back to playing with your Teletubby action figures.
Function before fashion.
'96 Contour SE
"Toss the Contour into a corner, and it's as easy to catch as a softball thrown by a preschooler." -Edmunds, 1998
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Probably a little history would be good here.
A/C started to become really popular in the early 60's about the time that muscle cars began to emerge. Most factory hot rods didn't come with A/C at the biginning. As muscle cars developed, and A/C also became a bit more refined, muscle cars with A/C became common, but often without an A/C option for the highest performance level cars. A prime example was the L88 Corvette. No A/C, not even a fan shroud so that they would overheat if driven in heavy traffic. After all, such cars were intended for track use and were not expected to see street use.
Hot rodders, being the inovative people that we are, took these muscle cars (as well as others) as developed for street use and modified them with hotter cams and lower gears. It is these cars, lower geared (higher revs at cruising speeds) and before A/C systems were designed to run in the defrost position that most of the problems came from throwing on the A/C at freeway speeds the first time in several months. I saw a lot of them.
It sometimes still happens today as well, but not nearly as often.
Remember that our cars with manual transmissions are geared a bit low so that at freeway speeds you are often at about 3500 RPM. That is a lot more risky than the cars that are geared so high that they are only doing about 2200 to 2500 RPM at freeway speed.
So it is my personal precaution to avoid turning on the A/C at freeway speed. Even if you don't have the compressor throw a rod, you will have less wear and tear on the system.
Jim Johnson
98 SVT
03 Escape Limited
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