When you set AC to "Max", it takes air from the cabin, regardless from how you set intake.

 

With the dial off of the Max setting, you can still press the AC button...without that on it is just the fan

 

That's one of the minor annoyances for me on this car. When 1st purchased, I thought there was a problem as well until I figured it out. Can't recall any other car I've driven that operates the A/C this way where if set on max you only get recirculated cabin air. Would be nice where if you do bump the A/C up a notch to get out of the recirculated mode, that the A/C would stay on instead of having to manually press the A/C button again. Oh well, have gotten use to it already.

 

I would bet taking it to the coldest setting just under MAX is the coldest it will get and have outside air flow. The only real difference on both my Hyundais is MAX is auto recirculate and vents.

Raising the temp will force the blend door to add uncooled air.

 

Glad I have the automatic a.c. system. It has a separate recirculate button.

 

Yeah, my mistake on the first test drive is what DRFUNKENSTEIN is referring to. I didn't realize that when I moved it off of Max, the A/C shut off. Weird but I can live with it. Considering that I almost never put it on Max, it shouldn't bother me too much.

Anyways, thanks everyone for your responses.

 

I don't think it always shuts off when moved off MAX. I think it goes back to whatever setting it was on before you selected MAX.

 

Nope, I was wrong. It does shut off the AC, regardless of prior setting.I was thinking of one of the work vehicles I drive.

 

How hard is it to press the ac button? I understand the annoyance but couldn't be that hard.

 

there is a flaw in the design. my 2015 sonata does the same thing. not enough people complain so they don't plan on doing anything. need to contact manufacturer and open up a case. horrible customer service when nobody else ever complained about thing s like this. incompetence on their part. please pursue.

 

I agree the way it functions is not ideal, but I believe calling it incompetence or poor customer service is quite a stretch.

There are minor quirks with any car, and I would consider it very lucky that the fix to this one is simply pressing the AC button again.

 

The warmish air is most likely the result of the warmer outside air mixing with the air conditioned air.

I am not sure if the ECO has it, but you can most likely just press the re-circulation button to force the car to take the cooler air from the cabin instead of the warmer outside air.

That is how the MAX setting differs from the standard AC setting...so that should solve your problem.

 

There are three settings:

1. Fan only, blows in fresh air
2. AC blows in chilled fresh air.
3. Max recirculates chilled air.

Max works great because it cools the air that is already partially cooled. I think that the recirculate function is automatically turned off when the defroster is on.

If your windows are fogging up don't use the recirculate function.

In bitter cold weather recirculate will warm up the car faster but you will have to switch to fresh air fairly early as the windows will fog up.

 

I think gkawakaw is a trol. he just joined this month

 

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I hardly think someone's join date and differing opinion makes them a troll.. but to each his own.....
At least this "problem" is fixed by pressing the A/C button again. Happens in my car and I stopped caring about it 10 seconds after noticing it for the first time...