Funny that is Rondo A/C thread is active....
I was over at my dealer today checking out Optimas after normal hours, and I saw the strangest sight over near the dealership's repair area door.
It looks like someone left their silver Rondo parked near the entrance with this message scrawled in what looked like orange liquid shoe polish on the driver's window: "A/C is broken. Fix it shop!"
That message in and of itself wouldn't be that surprising to see, and if the owner was frustrated, the shoe polish trick wouldn't even be that weird.
What WAS weird was that every square inch of the interior surface of every window in the thing was covered with a very thick layer of water condensation! You could barely see in the car when you put your face to the glass. The driver's seat had some kind of towel or temporary cover on it.
Temps were around 60 degrees here in Michigan today, and it was sunny. So the condensation thing doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
How could a broken A/C unit cause this amount of condensation? I'm wondering if there isn't trapped moisture from a leak of some sort in the floorboards or carpet, and the sun today caused it to evaporate. It was still pretty warm when I was there, so that doesn't explain the nasty interior condensation.
The fact that the there weren't any "wipe marks" on the inside of the windshield or drivers door tells me that the car had NOT just been parked -- the driver would not have been able to see where he/she was going!
So for all you super sleuths out there.... using the message written on the vehicle as a clue..... what the devil do you think was going on here?
I feel bad for the owner, since the vehicle appeared fairly new. That interior will HAVE to have some smell or mold issues later based on what I observed.
More fuel for a possible Rondo systemic A/C problem being identified on here....
-SM
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