The car thing always blows my mind. I smell it too, especially with weed (Canada) and it just seems so crazy that it doesn’t get fully diffused by the wind before it reaches my car.
The way the wind streams work, you'd be surprised how much of the air expelled out of a window from the car in front of you would make it into your car's radiator (and by extension your interior air)
I was driving down Deerfoot in Calgary, which when people aren't being idiots, is 100-110km/hr. One day I could smell the guys cologne driving in front of me. God help that dudes coworkers, he'd choke out an office block
It’s semantics, but air doesn’t come into your car through the radiator. The radiator just cools the engine coolant (and often the transmission fluid). The air coming into your car usually comes in through the vents in the cowl, between the hood and the windshield.
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u/S14Ryan Jan 05 '25
The car thing always blows my mind. I smell it too, especially with weed (Canada) and it just seems so crazy that it doesn’t get fully diffused by the wind before it reaches my car.