AC Blowing into Truck Bed

[Flabirder]

Hello all. Had my R1T delivered yesterday (8/31/22) after a 3 1/2 year wait (RB with revised dark wood OC interior). The A pillar speaker grills are black, matching the other speaker grills.

Anyway, I haven’t found any visible interior or exterior flaws yet, but noticed that the AC blows into the gear tunnel and truck bed (under the tonneau cover). The flow is strong enough that it can be felt outside the truck immediately under the front of the opened tonneau cover. The cover itself works great (> 20 cycles) and was told that this is likely the upgraded tonneau mechanism as my VIN # is 10XXX. Wondering if anyone else has experienced this. It seems like an awful lot of cool air is blown directly out of the cabin and wasted. I searched and did not find a post about this so I figured I ask before I put in a service ticket.

BTW, this truck is amazing and so far has exceeded my expectations. Love it!

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[MountainBikeDude]

Any air coming into the cab has to have an equal rate of escape to be effective. Most vehicles have the "exhaust" vents in the rear walls. My xterra has them in the rear cargo area behind storage nets. If you look at the top back of the rear seats in the T there is perforated grill which is likely where the escaping air starts it's journey out of the cab

 

[Dark-Fx]

Also comes out the door handles

 

[agame32]

Someone needs to turn this into a feature for cooled gear tunnel, truck bed, and roof top tents!

 

[MountainBikeDude]

Also comes out the door handles

Gotta keep those grips at optimal finger gripping temps

 

[Flabirder]

Any air coming into the cab has to have an equal rate of escape to be effective. Most vehicles have the "exhaust" vents in the rear walls. My xterra has them in the rear cargo area behind storage nets. If you look at the top back of the rear seats in the T there is perforated grill which is likely where the escaping air starts it's journey out of the cab

Thank you for that explanation, MBD. However, my AC was set to recirculate. Should the air blow out in that case?

 

[crashmtb]

Thank you for that explanation, MBD. However, my AC was set to recirculate. Should the air blow out in that case?

If the pressure inside is greater than outside, yes.

 

[Madsen203]

Gotta keep those grips at optimal finger gripping temps

Defrost in winter is important. Otherwise you won’t be getting into your snow and ice covered rig. Hopefully they heat the charge port too like Tesla does.

 

[Dark-Fx]

Thank you for that explanation, MBD. However, my AC was set to recirculate. Should the air blow out in that case?

Recirculate still introduces ~30% new air. Otherwise you would use up all the oxygen and die.

 

[Flabirder]

Also comes out the door handles

Yes, haha, and I thought that was unique to Tesla "feature".

 

[Dark-Fx]

Yes, haha, and I thought that was unique to Tesla "feature".

Tesla's unique feature is aircon coming out the charging port.

 

[Flabirder]

Recirculate still introduces ~30% new air. Otherwise you would use up all the oxygen and die.

Ah! Makes sense. I just never noticed losing so much cooled air in any other vehicle.

 

[Aubs]

It would be better if some of that air went into the Frunk. The frunk can get pretty hot from the batteries/motors.

 

[moosehead]

Not quite sure, but sometimes feels like the gear tunnel gets AC air without pass through being open.

 

[MountainBikeDude]

Not quite sure, but sometimes feels like the gear tunnel gets AC air without pass through being open.

gotta keep the kids alive somehow when they ask one too many times "are we there yet"

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