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If you get into a car to pick a family member up in a 119 degree afternoon, your car’s internal temperature may very well be over 130 degrees.

Yes, you will splash some water on your car to make it tolerable to drive.

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I live in Texas where it can also get to over 110°, and I have never seen anyone do this. We've all done the open the door, jump in to start the car, crank the AC, roll down the windows too. You gotta exhaust that baked air inside. It's so bad you avoid touching the car with bare hands. But again, not once would I think wasting water on the car would be a good idea or even a good thing to do.

It might be better to look at it as a "strategically timed" car wash. Its so dusty in the summer your windshield can be hard to see out of. We have little humidity in July. Just horrid oven like heat. We open the door and windows to get the air out too. Probably the lack of humidity in June / July allows this to work in a way it would not in non-desert places.

Also after a week or two over 115, 110 feels absolutely "cool" to us here in Phoenix. We really do say "Hey, today the high is only 110! Fall is coming!".

It's been a long time since I've seen someone so committed to something so obviously a terrible idea. You've doubled down and splits 8s with this while charging up a very odd hill to die on and whatever other cliche fits.

You remind me of the neighbor's teenage kid I once saw cleaning cut grass from the drive way with a garden hose sprayer. I still remember his dad realizing his failure in raising a kid with common sense and explaining what a waste in water it was, how expensive it was, and just illogical of a decision it was. I feel I've now become that dad.

It’s not terrible when it’s 119 in Phoenix. We also have green summer lawns that we water too. We live, the lawns help keep the interior of the city cool, as do the trees.

I’m sure many think it’s illogical to try to live on Phoenix. That’s alright, it’s our choice.

I'd be worried about eventually cracking glass from the extraneous, repeated, rapid thermal stress. Garage the car OR park in the shade OR put up a solar shade in the window, crack the windows, and/or crank the A/C before getting in. Also, don't have a car with a dark paint or interior, or metal seatbelt buckle housings.

Everybody puts solar shade reflectors in the front and side windows - else you’ll burn your hands on the steering wheel. Phoenix historic downtown homes don’t generally have garages and shade is hard to find. We always leave the windows cracked. It’s a very extreme environ akin to Death Valley and it’s hard to imagine if you haven’t lived through a summer here.

I've been around a bit, but I don't understand people who don't help themselves by practicing enough adaptive habits. My mom appears allergic to solar shades for some reason.

I gave up on those collapsible shades you have to take down and put somewhere in the car until the one day you're in a rush and put it in the trunk trying to make space or just hide it because it doesn't look cool on date night, but then you park to realize it's in the trunk but your in a hurry and decide you get it back out next time. Continuously for weeks.

I upgraded to the retractable ones that attach to the either side of the windshield. They were never put in the trunk ever again

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