Defroster takes 15 mins. or more to clear medium frost in the mornings. I wonder is this common on 5th Generation Max's. While, my Subaru Outback rear defroster SLICES - DICES - Makes Julienne fries of Ol' JAck Frost. What's the Dealio?

 

I dunno wassup with that. I've got a garage so I rarely have to use it. It's always seemed fast enough but its not THAT cold in Seattle. I do have to pretty much keep the front defroster on all the time or the windows start fogging. Maybe I breath too much?

 

I have not noticed mine being that slow. Though, I keep the car in the garage and rarely have to deal with a lot of frost.

 

I haven't noticed either... but I usually park under the car port. I'll pay attention the next time I don't.

 

The rear takes forever. The front one rocks.

 

Agreed... under tough conditions, the rear one COULD be better!!!

 

The rear defroster sucks! Takes forever!

 

I had that experience with my rear defroster too. It turns off every 15 minutes and most of the time I have press twice (Once @warmup and once more while driving off).. What I normally do now while waiting for the car to warm up is wipe it myself.

 

Now thats friggin irritating when you need it on and it keeps turning itself off. GRrrr

 

Sorta makes you wish you could "OverClock" it :-)

-Tom

 

I too noticed that the defroster on my 01 SE is much slower that my 93 GXE. Oh yea, what's with the lacking side mirror defroster of the 5th gen. Sure, I could have opted for the meridian package, but it was standard on my bare bones 3rd gen GXE.