AC/ Heater Question

[MarineVet6113]

I’m not sure this is an issue but I don’t normally run my heater this time of year in Florida but decided to test it out tonight. I noticed that the airflow or pressure out of the vent goes down dramatically as you increase the temp to hi even when the pressure is turned to full bars. Is that normal? The heater does get hot for sure but if I turn it to high heat and max pressure it’s hot but seems like the actual airflow coming out of the vent is barely anything and then as I go down in temp each degree the air flow and pressure gets higher and higher until it’s full blast at the low setting. I have never seen a vehicle like this and wondering if that’s the way it’s supposed to work or am I missing something ?

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[Tanrmt09]

I would expect this to be normal my wife's 22 RAV4 does the same exact thing. It absolutely sucks when you want that heat high and hot in the winter after playing in the snow but you get used to it.

 

[MarineVet6113]

I would expect this to be normal my wife's 22 RAV4 does the same exact thing. It absolutely sucks when you want that heat high and hot in the winter after playing in the snow but you get used to it.

I wondered if it was normal. It gets plenty hot but I guess I’m used to my Jeep when the high heat blows with high pressure like a blow dryer.

 

[MarineVet6113]

Seems like on cold temps it prioritizes the front facing vents but on the warmer temps it prioritizes the defrost and the floor. If I set it manually to 85 it blows fairly good but when you click over the high it slows down a lot although it will be very hot. However if I run into it on high to the defrost most it will blow hard there as well. Almost like Toyota didn’t want super hot air blowing in your face…if this is indeed the normal operation of it. I’m sure it doesn’t take much to heat up such a small cabin but just never seen hvac operate like that. My other car is German and it blow very high heat at full blast should I choose.

 

[bresna]

On other Toyota vehicles I've owned, if you have ECO mode engaged, it ignores your environmental settings to save gas. Make sure ECO is off and see if that changes it.

 

[MarineVet6113]

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On other Toyota vehicles I've owned, if you have ECO mode engaged, it ignores your environmental settings to save gas. Make sure ECO is off and see if that changes it.

I didn’t turn on eco mode to see if it affected it but the concern does happen in normal mode. Everything is consistent though. 85 to hi …pressure slows down …back down to 85 it picks back up.

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