Defrost

I thought I wouldn't have need of the defrost for several months yet, but today we had unusually cold rain and my windows soon fogged up. The fan (not a/c) was already running at a very low setting (one or two clicks only) when I depressed the defrost button. Roughly 15 seconds later, it was like a hurricane in the cabin! The fan moved to the highest setting all by itself. This did clear the windshield in seconds, but it was a bit disconcerting. This phenomenon repeated itself all three times that I engaged the defrost button. Is the defrost supposed to do that? I swear, the sudden change startled me so much, I hit my head on the ceiling of the cabin. LOL

 

Thank you, Ashley.

This is the first car I've ever owned that wasn't manual everything (except transmission), so I was quite surprised. All my other Toyotas (this is my fourth Toyota) have required manual adjustment of the fan, even in defrost mode. Yes, I know I can turn it down... not that it was necessary to do so, the hurricane force defrosted the windows so quickly that there was no point in turning it down, I simply shut it off.