If you listen to the engine several times at idle you will soon recognize the sound of the compressor cycling. The compressor cycles on all modes except non-AC dash/vent and non-AC dash-only modes.

 

That's the symptoms (disease, err, um...plague) with my 8. However, I still need to get the AC amp fix. The (insert expletive) dealership never got back to me. I think I'll try to remember to call them tomorrow. Bad choice of words. I'll Talk to them tomorrow, already know what I want to call them...

Wonder if the AC cycling fix makes a difference? Also, I've gota 2004. Maybe this "Feature" has been modified for 2005.

Mini Rant: WTF have an AC button if it is useless and can't even override Big Brother/Nanny idiot programming?

 

Yipes!
In Automotive Enthusiast Circles, methinks that’s about as close to a Negative-Dowry as one can get. Wow…still taking it all in. :D To overcome adversity like that, she must be one amazing woman

I once rented an Escort (complete with “Attack Seatbelts” many years ago and I’m still thoroughly F@#ed-up from the “experience.” Note: do not open driver’s door and stick head out when backing up. $heeatt…

Okay, this is going to sound like an exaggeration, but it’s not. I was at 7,000 feet and I started the car up the next morning after it got down into the low 20s. By this time I had lost all respect for the car and was treating it like, um, a rental car.

Without allowing the thing to warm up, I put it in drive and floored it. Something I’ve never done to a car since as it really goes against my “car morals.” I don’t know what it is with those cars, but they just incite hostile feelings and actions that continue to grow as exposure to the car increases…

Anyway, the thing just sat there with an elevated engine speed going rrrrrrrrrrr. Zero movement. It couldn’t even lift its leg high enough to get out of the way of its own Pi$$.

After taking a minute or so to fully take in what was happening or, more exactly, not happening, I rocked the steering wheel back and forth and heard a little crack from the front tires breaking free from semi-icy gravel driveway. The car sluggishly moved forward, and for the next two minutes I could not get the thing to go above 18 MPH.

 

:D :D