When it is hot and humid, it would be miserable to sit in a hot car waiting for the traffic to start moving. To over come this type of problem, we make the following suggestions to make comfortable when driving.
How to cool a car without air conditioning
- Put a wet cloth over the middle vent of your car
- By placing a wet cloth on the middle vent, the air that blows over it will be much cooler.
- Keep a few pieces of wet cloth ready to replace when it dries.
- Drive your car with barefoot
- Driving your car with barefoot might be a little unusual idea. But your body can let out some amount of heat through your feet. So traveling with barefoot will help keep you cool to some extent.
- In some places or countries it is illegal to drive with barefoot if that is the case just avoid this suggestion.
- Bring freeze water bottles to use as ice packs
- Bring freeze water bottles to use as ice packs. Wrap the frozen bottle in a towel and put it behind your neck.
- Once the freeze water bottle liquifies, drink the cold water in it to cool off.
- Plan your traveling time when the day is cool
- Plan your traveling time in cooler parts of the day like early morning is often the coolest time of the day.
- if you are traveling is not on a fixed schedule then plan driving as possible before the heat becomes unbearable in the day.
- Try to avoid driving in mid-afternoon to avoid worst heat of the day.
- Look for shady routes as your frequent routes
- When driving, make sure that you are traveling in tree lined streets and roadways that are often shady for a long part of the day.
- Roll down the windows of your car
- Sometimes, the noise and odors of city driving may tempt you to keep the windows closed.
- To increase the air circulation open rear window to draw fresher air.
- Opening the car’s sliding back window to draw fresh air.
- Roll down the windows a little while parking
- Roll down the windows for a short while while parking. It will allow the hot air to pass out of the car pulling in cooler air.
- Put a fan on the dashboard
- Put a fan on the dashboard. You can get an inexpensive 12 volt fan available at auto parts stores.
- They are attached on the rear view mirror, or stand on the dashboard and plug in to move fresher air.
- Switch it on during driving, to help circulate the air and keep you cooler.
- Passengers can use a real fan to help circulate air around themselves.
