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Old 01-19-2004, 12:09 AM
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Originally posted by Aredubjay
Heat will not come out the dash vents. The engineers of the SVX designed the system NOT to blow out the vents. Heat is directed to the floor and a bit to through the windshield vents, but not to the dash. The reasoning (or so I've read) is that the Subaru engineers decided that the air, coming out of dash vents, dried the driver's eyes out. Since heat rises, they figured that the car would warm nicely without sending heat to the dash.
But heat will come out of the dash vents on non-US models. Did the Subaru engineers not care about non-US drivers?
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