Rolling down windows with remote transmitter?

DrivenDaily said:

I respectfully disagree with that statement.


Without remote windows or remote start, experts (reader: you decide if you want to accept them as such) have commented for years that to get a hot car cooled the fastest, drive with the windows rolled down for a few minutes, then roll the windows back up and turn on the AC if you didn't already. Why? Gets the most heat out of the car the fastest and lets the AC concentrate on reducing the temp from, let's say, 110 instead of a much higher temperature.

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Actually, what I do is open the windows slightly and turn on the A/C. That will cool the interior the fastest as the A/C is pushing the hot air out through the open window. From what I noticed, opening the windows on a hot day doesn't do much to cool the interior down, especially if the car is not moving.
If I sit in the car with the windows opened, it gets quite hot in there.

Opening the windows may help if it's relatively cool outside and the car got warm from sitting in the sun.

I guess we're not really gonna see eye to eye and that's ok. By cracking the window and using the blower to replace the air with conditioned air you're pretty much accomplishing the same thing as rolling them down and letting nature take its course.

Imagine an oven. Which is faster at removing the heat from it, opening the door or cracking it slightly and blowing air into it? I guess it'd take a true experiment to bring us an unequivocal answer, but you're doing more to help by cracking the window, since you're replacing the air and not just pumping the heat from the inside to the outside via the refrigerant.

I'm sure we both arrive at a comfortable car soon enough.