One of the things I like about the '93 Rodeo is when Isuzu built it, they assume ed their customers had brains.

If you want to heat the windshield to do a minor defog or melt ice, you switch to heat and windshield. Do not press the A/C (compressor) button.

The temp in Tucson was such that I turned the 2004 Rodeo to combo defog/foot heat. The Rodeo kept kicking forward at a stoplight. I did not have the A/C (compressor) button in.

A few minutes and holding the brakes very lightly let me verify that when the dial is on Windshield or Windshield/Feet, then the A/C automatically turns on, no matter what the A/C button says.

I blame the idiots who sued, the jury that awarded the price, and the general stupidity of the population as a whole who did not bother educating themselves as to how their expensive vehicle worked. "I just put gas in, right?"

When my Amigo was overheating, I'd switch it to dash, heat, high fan to blow off heat, but not in my direction. No more doing that. With the A/C compressor running, it makes the engine hot and I don't know the net effect.

When I want to heat up the window, I have the compressor fighting the heater. Great.

When I just wanted very gentle, indirect heat, I can still do it--but have to waste the excess gasoline to blow the defroster.

I know, minor complaint. But if you have a specific button just for the compressor, use it. Or light it up whenever the compressor is on. Trust people to be a little smarter. OK, so a guy died Monday because he was hanging his butt outside the subway car to relieve himself on the tracks and the oncoming subway train hit him, but still.