ZeeOh6Nut

I'm planning a summer road trip of 2000 miles into the warmer southern states. I have an A8 without any mods. Has anyone experienced any overheating in their Z while in 90+F temps under normal highway driving?

dar02081961

Unless something is wrong. It aint gonna happen.

Although I have an M7 I have been in bumper to bumper traffic at 102* creeping along at 5-20 mph for 30 minutes or more on more than 1 occasion. Never saw the temp get higher than 217*.

Go ahead and enjoy your trip and enjoy the car, You will be fine.

Snorman

No.

jaden61

Yes, just run the A/C and you will cool off. Seat vents too, ahh.

Dr. ice

That picture tells it all. 117 degrees and running cool temps!

Thomasmoto

I agree completely that as long as you don't have a component failure, like hose or cooling system gets opened by accident, you won't have any issues. Have a great time! These cars are awesome and deserve to be enjoyed.

Busa Dave

I have gone across country three times in mine, DFW to Jacksonville. Bottom line is no and the ac works great. Now in 95 degree stop and go traffic for an hour mine gets close in fact the ac even on recirculate gets only cool.


Airflow from speed is the key. When it stops the corvette struggles in high heat esp when driving east in stop and go and there is a 35 mph west tailwind.

dar02081961

Also if you look under settings on the touch screen.
I think its under user comfort settings.

You can set the highest fan speed the auto AC can command.

It comes defaulted to medium from the factory. (for less noise and wind force on us I guess).
Set it to high which allows the AC to command the interior fan speed to high when needed and not be limited to a max of medium when in the automatic AC mode.

ramyk

You'll be fine. I don't think it's possible for this car to overheat on public roads under normal driving unless something has malfunctioned.

Bigdog9586

New to Z but my 14 Stingray seems to put out a lot of heat through the floor and it really never got real cold in My cabin. Never got air checked out s upgraded to Z. So at 100 degrees was it cool inside on a trip or around town.

jaden61

Freeze your *** off.

brianinvegas

That looks just like my highway trip from Vegas to Pahrump last August. Climbed the mountain pass with the AC on the entire way. The Z with A8 never even thought about getting hot.

ZeeOh6Nut

Thanks all for the feedback. Can't wait to take the roof off and do some miles. I do love the car after owning it for a year.