Rear Passenger vents for cooling & heating

[Canadian Lightning]

Biggest complaint from our Rear Passengers ( our Kids and friends ) that its to hot back there. Up front I'm good cooled seats lots of vents . I have to turn the AC to max to cool or heat the rear passengers. I'm I missing something in the climate controls? Would love to have it blasting in the back and a little up front.
Anyone have this issues and have any tips


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[Heliian]

To conserve energy, the HVAC is usually driver focused but that is easily fixed by cranking up the settings.

The most common problem is that the rear passengers haven't figured out how to open and point the center pedestal vents.

 

[BennyTheBeaver]

To conserve energy, the HVAC is usually driver focused but that is easily fixed by cranking up the settings.

The most common problem is that the rear passengers haven't figured out how to open and point the center pedestal vents.

The center pedestal vents are not sufficient to effectively (and rapidly) cool/heat the rear seat passengers. Add to that that the current design of vents has the vent closing when moved completely to one side (essentially making air going to that side of the vent reduced if the vent is positioned only partially that way). Vents are needed in the mid-cab door pillar, in my opinion.

 

[Storm Breaker]

i too had this complaint about it being hot in the back. i had some ultimate uv heat blocking window tint put on all my windows. 30% rear, 70% front, windshield and sun roof. that helped keep the over all temp down so the air could actually keep up with the ambient heat.

 

[astricklin]

My old Mercury mountaineer has a dedicated fan for the rear that you can turn on and off from the main HVAC control along with 3 different speeds that can be controlled from the rear panel. Guess thata too expensive for an $80k truck these days.

 

[viennaxmas]

Just use the pro power and one of these:

 

[WoodduckMN]

My wife has made the same complaint when she rides in the back

 

[RickLightning]

Two tips:

1) Turn off "Driver Focused Mode". If no one is in passenger seat, and this is turned on, it will shut off the floor duct on the passenger side. The floor duct is where the air comes from for the back. Page 155 of manual.

2) Instead of using Auto Mode, try directing air to the vents and floor ducts, or just the floor ducts.

 

[Sneakypetie78]

Sort of same issue with my 2013 f-150, but kind of as with any car, I suppliment with front vents blowing up and over my head in front. Secondary fan and control for the rear would be ideal, and not hard imo.

 

[kbuicker]

Plenty of air in the bed of the truck.

 

[GDN]

These are the little things that just make you shake your head at Ford. Number one in trucks for how many years? Deliver 250K of them a year and they can't figure out the little things like this.

The auto HVAC in the Lightning has to be the worst implementation I've seen. I like the update GUI controls, but it still works poorly. The 3 level of "auto" do not adjust the fan according to 1, 2 or 3 bars. The air blowers in the seat can be loud, but barely move air through them. Little to no air making it to the back seat is absurd - figure out how to work actuators or put in a booster fan in the duct work. So many easy things to do.

However they seem to take steps backward.

 

[astricklin]

I feel like the extra blower for the back seat is most likely something that got cut due to the bean counting at some point and not enough customers complained for them to ever put it back. Now with "chip shortages" good luck getting any little extras added back.

 

[RickLightning]

I feel like the extra blower for the back seat is most likely something that got cut due to the bean counting at some point and not enough customers complained for them to ever put it back. Now with "chip shortages" good luck getting any little extras added back.

Why do you believe there is an extra blower? I have not played with mine, but most vehicles simply push floor vent air from the front through those vents.

 

[lightspeed]

These are the little things that just make you shake your head at Ford. Number one in trucks for how many years? Deliver 250K of them a year and they can't figure out the little things like this.

The auto HVAC in the Lightning has to be the worst implementation I've seen. I like the update GUI controls, but it still works poorly. The 3 level of "auto" do not adjust the fan according to 1, 2 or 3 bars. The air blowers in the seat can be loud, but barely move air through them. Little to no air making it to the back seat is absurd - figure out how to work actuators or put in a booster fan in the duct work. So many easy things to do.

However they seem to take steps backward.

After living with the HVAC system for a while, it works fine, but I agree that the AUTO feature and the controls in general are not great.

When heating in AUTO, the truck never uses the forward vents. Why is that?

When cooling in AUTO 3-bars, once the temp get close to setting the fan speed is so low that it doesn't move much air. What's the point of having the 1 to 3 setting if it doesn't affect the final fan speed?

I constantly have to override the AUTO settings because they suck or just go way past whatever temp you actually want to force AUTO to be agressive.

 

[astricklin]

Why do you believe there is an extra blower? I have not played with mine, but most vehicles simply push floor vent air from the front through those vents.

In the past, some Ford products had one. I have an old Mercury Mountaineer (Ford explorer) that has a rear fan in the center console with multiple fan speeds.

I wasn't trying to say the lightning ever had one and it got dropped, just that Ford used to use one and they stopped at some point.

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