Do Not Attempt Southwest Road-trip During Day

[Dave711]

Drove from San Diego to Santa Fe in my R1S which took me through Phoenix at 3pm.
1) A/C on Max Recirculate, lowest temp
2) Seat Cooling on high
3) Wearing t-shirt, shorts, flippy floppies
4) Ice water in Yeti

The drive was miserable. Heat from glass roof overpowered everything and I was sweating.

lesson learned: It is not worth driving in heat and sunshine like that without some sort of insulated sunshade for the glass roof. Will be doing night driving near term for long road trips, if possible. Trip home at night was amazing. Less traffic and lights are awesome.

if anyone knows of quality sunshades, please let me know!

I think I bought this one.
https://www.evbase.com/products/riv...UIFrLTyphoCrlAQAvD_BwE&variant=43830660399347

I live in Long Beach. I couldn't drive the R1S during the day. No problem now.

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[tylerdurden03]

Amazing to me that anyone rolls around without a sunshade in the roof especially living in the southwest (or traveling through it.). its a must have in the summer.

 

[Mark_AZR1T]

Amazing to me that anyone rolls around without a sunshade in the roof especially living in the southwest (or traveling through it.). its a must have in the summer.

I've never had a problem and don't have any sunshade on my roof glass. I have full ceramic on every other window and that is more than sufficient. I suspect an A/C issue with OP. High quality ceramic is the key for all the other glass. Prior to that, it was a challenge. This is my full second summer in the desert with the R1T

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