Indian man in UK discovers his car has no air conditioning and no space to install it: 45 degrees in Delhi is different because…
An Indian man living in the UK explains how ill-prepared the country is for heatwaves and why a temperature of 33 degrees in the UK is different from 45 degrees in New Delhi. Sharma also said that he recently discovered that his car did not have air conditioning and could not install it as there was no space to install it. He explained that when he told friends in New Delhi about their struggles with 33 degrees in the UK, they laughed at him because Delhi was much hotter than that, but he explained that there were no ceiling fans or air conditioning in the UK. He explained that it was like having no backup power when there was a blackout in New Delhi.“Let me tell you how unprepared the UK was for this heatwave. So I bought this car three months ago. So I didn’t use the air conditioning for the first two months and the last two weeks I thought, now it’s really hot, it’s finally time to turn on the air conditioning,” said Sharma, who advises Brits to check the feature before buying a car.“I turned on the air conditioning and it wasn’t cooling. So like any other normal person would think, I thought maybe there was a gas leak and I needed to refill the gas, so I booked it in with a mechanic. I took the car to the mechanic and an hour later I went and I asked them if the car was okay and the guy said, ‘Where do you want me to put the gas? You don’t have air conditioning in the car.’ I was like, ‘What do you mean you don’t have air conditioning in the car?’ ” He said, “Your car was built without air conditioning. “I was like, ‘No, that can’t be true. Even the Maruti 800 in India has air conditioning, man. That car is so old. He opened Google and he showed me that in the UK, some brands make cars in certain years with just a heater and fan in it. Now I’m stuck with this car in such hot weather and without it, you can’t even install air conditioning because there’s no space on the bonnet, they don’t provide enough space. Oh my God,” said Sharma.Friday (June 26) was confirmed by the Met Office as the UK’s hottest June day on record, with a temporary temperature of 37.3C at Thornton Downham, Suffolk, surpassing Thursday’s maximum temperature of 36.7C recorded at Merrifield, Somerset. A yellow warning for extreme heat remains in place for southeast England and East Anglia from midnight to 9pm on Saturday. The Met Office said weather conditions in the UK will be mixed next week, with a mix of cloudy and sunny spells and occasional rain from the west.
