where does fresh air come into cabin from?
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Not completely, but several cars that I've worked on do vent outside air from that location. Honestly, I haven't paid that much attention to that particular system on the Protege. Basically, I'm making an assumption here, but you know what they say about assumptions, heh.nate0123 said:
i think i was looking at the protege manual on protege.ugly.net? i forgot the exact web location but I think i remember seeing it saying something about a vent in that position. i know the celica has a vent around that position cause i red about ppl saying they would flip down one of the seats to allow hot air to get out of the car quicker.nate0123 said:
if air is constantly recycled then won't we all die from CO2 poisoning?
tttP5 said:
It's acually more of CO poisoning. CO2 is carbon dioxide and we breathe that out anyway and will take a long time to build up that much CO2 to be toxic. And our cars are not 100% air tight anyways.
Anyhoo, it's an issue if your car is stationary and there's no air flow around to disperse the exhaust gas away from the car. That's why people die/kill themselves when they're in the car and have the car running in the garage
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Hmm...I was at an understanding that US-spec models had no filter. TheMAN posted quite an intesive How-To (clubprotege.com) on equipping the US-spec Proteges with the J-Spec filtration system (he's quite intuitive as you may know).barfly said:Just like pungdum said.. passenger side front. There is also a filter there, that you should change once a year or so.
thanks.
my concern on this topic was because i just got a CF hood and i installed some weather stripping under the leading edge of the hood with some weather strip sealant. i'm not sure if that stuff would melt with the heat generated within the engine bay and so i started smelling this faint sour smell and i thought i mabye comimg from the chemical in the sealant..... which probably isn't too good for me if i inhaled too much.
so thats my concern, cause if outside air in NON RECIRCULATING mode was coming in from the engine bay then i might probably die of some chemical accumulation in my body.... but since it seems like it is not coming from the engine bay area then my perception of the sour smell must be just mental.
my concern on this topic was because i just got a CF hood and i installed some weather stripping under the leading edge of the hood with some weather strip sealant. i'm not sure if that stuff would melt with the heat generated within the engine bay and so i started smelling this faint sour smell and i thought i mabye comimg from the chemical in the sealant..... which probably isn't too good for me if i inhaled too much.
so thats my concern, cause if outside air in NON RECIRCULATING mode was coming in from the engine bay then i might probably die of some chemical accumulation in my body.... but since it seems like it is not coming from the engine bay area then my perception of the sour smell must be just mental.
