Traveling with open windows

tatest wrote:
Interesting answers, show how our culture has changed. We always travelled with windows open, car and travel trailer, in warm weather before we had air conditioning. Kept the house windows open too. Did a lot of dusting.

First A/C in a car for us was 1980, bought that one without A/C in Michigan, added aftermarket when I got to Oklahoma. Never lived in a house with A/C before 1980, now it is almost universal in the South and common in newer homes up north.

I remember when Mom and Dad moved to El Dorado KS in 1961, the house did not have A/C. It was hot, humid and miserable. We ended up getting window A/C's until we got central air in 1972. The first car they had that had A/C was a 1961 Oldsmobile, they traded a 1955 Packard in on it.

My first truck a 1955 Dodge did not have A/C. Heater, AM tube radio, and wipers was it.

I only did it once by accident, what a mess to clean.

Interesting answers, show how our culture has changed. We always travelled with windows open, car and travel trailer, in warm weather before we had air conditioning. Kept the house windows open too. Did a lot of dusting.

First A/C in a car for us was 1980, bought that one without A/C in Michigan, added aftermarket when I got to Oklahoma. Never lived in a house with A/C before 1980, now it is almost universal in the South and common in newer homes up north.

Like most others, we keep all the windows closed and the bathroom vent open but it has a Maxxair vent cover.

I had one section of a louvered widow fall off on the road. The small screws on the end of the glass panel fell out. The mini blinds were all busted up and laying on the floor. It's on my check list to secure all the windows but we do leave the vents open at times.

If traveling in the deep south in the summer months, consider running the coach AC while rolling down the road. Opening the roof vents didn't help reduce the temps any. We took lots of readings.

We found an overheated coach leads to melting the sticker on the back of the TV remote (what a mess to clean), melted wax items (including art works), melted chocolate (ate them anyway), the sugar and instant coffee turned into bricks even though they were in sealed containers, the potato chips didn't fair so well. How hot is hot? When our TV remote sticker melted it was 114ºF in Flagstaff as we drove through.

I open the windows at check-n and find the drive to the site is enough to suck out the hot air. Little exposure to dirt and accomplishes what I need.

beemerphile1 wrote:

bguy wrote:
Leaving windows and vents open will siphon your traps and give you a bad smell in the trailer. It will also create extra vacuum inside possibly pulling water into hatches etc.

Where does the water go? Is it sucked out the window?

The water is still there, it just sucks the stink air through the trap. High pressure on your trailer roof, low pressure at the open window, air is forced down the vent pipes, into the holding tanks and it bubbles up the drains.

Drbolasky wrote:
As a rule, we leave nothing open. You may not be able to see it, but whatever dust or dirt is floating in the air gets sucked in to your TT and covers everything in it. We will open windows/vents if we're parked for a meal or at an attraction.

x2!

I made the mistake while driving down the Denali Highway (barely a road, not paved) and left my kitchen window open.

EVERYTHING was covered with road dust when I stopped for lunch. Bedding, miniblinds, the works. Took a while to clean up that mess.

bguy wrote:
Leaving windows and vents open will siphon your traps and give you a bad smell in the trailer. It will also create extra vacuum inside possibly pulling water into hatches etc.

Where does the water go? Is it sucked out the window?