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Originally Posted by 93543hollander
Do you sleep or cook with the engine running?
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No, I do not. But when I am driving for six plus hours and it is 100 degrees out and I want the interior cooled off it is REALLY nice to have the rear AC handling the rear area part of the van and not have the coldest air possible only coming out of the dash right in my face.
And when it is zero degrees out and we are driving into a campsite we arrive the the interior nicely warmed up throughout without frying ourselves trying to heat the back of the van past us.
The balance of managing environmental temperatures with low fan settings because the conditioned air is distributed via two locations 12 feet apart is pretty logical.
Seriously, what are you really gaining by removing a truly functional HVAC unit mounted at the rear corner of the van? Maybe 1.5 cu ft of usable space? If you put a cabinet, bed, bench seat in that area it has negligible impact.
Rear HVAC is easy to pull out and a nightmare to rein$tall.
Your situation may warrant no need for rear HVAC but most people are traveling through serious temperature ranges. One trip to Baja for a month or through Portland at 116 deg and a person will be glad they have the rear sources for HVAC. Spend 10 weeks skiing out of your van never seeing temps above 30F and the benefits of the rear HVAC will be greatly appreciated over the small amount of mostly unusable space one gains by removing the rear HVAC.