"Forest" <forest@myhome.com> wrote in message
news:1WfRb.28501$zj7.15139@newsread1.news.pas.eart hlink.net...
> Jees, I'm tired of the AC coming on every time I turn the knob to
de-frost!
> Have a 2000 Civic DX here and I can't understand why that's set-up that
way?
> Doesn't Honda realize I am quite capable of determining when I want the
> compressor to run?
>
> Anyway to change that?
>
> Thanks
>
>

The AC runs when the defrost is on so that it supplies dry air to the
windshield... thus facilitating the defogging of the windshield.
Personally, I like the feature. There must have been some designer who
said, "Jees, I hate having to turn on the AC everytime I turn the knob to
de-frost! Anyway to change that?"