Type 44 cabin ventilation (lack of)

[Kneale Brownson]

If, like me, you're vertically challenged and horizontally over-endowed 
(short & fat), it's no fun lying half on the seat, half on the doorsill 
with your head in the footwell and no room to get your arms through the 
opening between your belly and the glovebox, so you'll need to remove the 
glovebox and attendant trim pieces.  Then it's relatively straight forward 
to take off the door, install something to hook the spring to (unless it's 
the spring itself that broke--it's usually the plastic anchor for the 
spring in the evaporator box) and reattach the door.



At 12:29 AM 03/26/2001 -0700, Zsolt wrote:

>Speaking of which, can someone tell me how I can get to the box in front of
>the passeger seat to change the spring for the recirculating flap? It broke
>the other day and my windows are fogging up since.
>
>Thanks,
>   Zsolt
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Doyt W. Echelberger <Doyt at nwonline.net>
>To: rob hod <rob3 at hod3.fsnet.co.uk>
>Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
>Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 9:27 AM
>Subject: Re: Type 44 cabin ventilation (lack of)
>
>
> > Possibly the cabin is so tight that air can't be forced in, because it has
> > nowhere to get out. The planned exit points may be blocked.
> >
> > You could test this by invoking the flip-up mode of the sunroof while in
> > motion. If that worked, you would have some evidence that you could
>improve
> > the inflow of fresh air through the dash vents by opening up the built-in
> > ventilation _out_ of the cabin.
> >
> > Doyt
> >
> >  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > At 02:54 PM 3/24/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >      I have to say that the cabin ventilation in my avant (non climate
> > control)  is about the worst I've ever encountered.
> >
> >      What I'm used to is having a source of fresh air that I can direct to
>my
> > head even if I've got warm air going elsewhere.
> >      The dash vents are fairly useless  even with the blower on and it
>seems
> > that without it no air enters the cabin at all.
> >
> >      Has anyone got any mods that improve upon the standard sorry state of
> > affairs. All I want is some nice fresh air without opening windows.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > rob
> >
>
>