For some reason, my Highlander seems to trap moisture inside the car. When I turn it off, after a minute or so, I hear some things moving around the vents (dampers or gates or something, maybe?), and then when I return and it’s anywhere close to freezing or colder, then I have heavy fog and possibly ice on the inside window. When the air kicks on, the fog gets even worse before finally clearing up.
I can scrape ice on the outside of my window, but this is thr only car I’ve had that freezes I side, and I hate it. Does anybody know why it does this? What was the point of designing the vents to close shortly after turning off thr car? Why are things this way?!
Open the windows
That is a solution, but not one I had to employ with any other vehicle I’ve ever owned. My question isn’t how can I prevent the fog - the question is why the heck was the car designed in a way to trap moisture in the first place? Why doesn’t it remove all that moisture with the defroster? Why do I have to employ problematic solutions to a problem I shouldn’t have in the first place? Letting snow in through the open windows doesn’t help solve the moisture problem in the car, either. That’s a solution entirely dependant on the weather, the dew, etc - it’s not reliable.