Using the fan, heater

[otterhere]

Which brings me back the one of the things I MOST hate about this car, which is that you can't drive with the ding-dang windows down unless you want banging in your ears; this is crazy car design!!! It's hot from April through October here, so there goes my gas mileage for MOST of the year (I almost never ran a/c in the Swift; windows were always down and life was good). Honestly, I'm not sure I can last long with this car... Yes, I know you can "do things" and "add things" to mitigate that; I paid big bucks (relatively speaking) and would like not to have to remake it to make it work...

[NJBob]

Originally Posted by otterhere

Which brings me back the one of the things I MOST hate about this car, which is that you can't drive with the ding-dang windows down unless you want banging in your ears; this is crazy car design!!! It's hot from April through October here, so there goes my gas mileage for MOST of the year (I almost never ran a/c in the Swift; windows were always down and life was good). Honestly, I'm not sure I can last long with this car... Yes, I know you can "do things" and "add things" to mitigate that; I paid big bucks (relatively speaking) and would like not to have to remake it to make it work...

I agree that you shouldn't have to FIX something to remove the bludgening effect from high speed driving with the windows down. I added the Weathertech Window deflectors which DID ease up the pounding. However if you're driving at 60+ mpg you may as well turn on the A/C. If you have no A/C or prefer not to use it then I'd look into another car and test that bad boy at Hiway speed.