Q: A question regarding my car blowing intermittently hot and cold air.
My cars air condition intermittently blows hot and cold air. When in gear cold air comes out and if in neutral or parked it blows hot air. I also noticed lately the temperature of the car will go up and down. If in neutral it tends to run hot as with blowing hot air if driving the temperature will go back down in the air will get cool.
My car has 140000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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