AC question....94 Cab.

[Tom Leppke-Hennig]

Ted Haug asked:

I know this is an odd time of the year for an A/C question, but I just
recently acquired a 1994 Cabriolet, and this appears to be it's only
gremlin at the moment.  Wondering if anyone else has dealt with this on a
B4 platform car:  When I depress the A/C button on the venitilation control
panel, absolutely nothing....I mean nothing happens - the switch doesn't
light, the compressor doesn't engage at all <<snip>>

On my '95 90Q (B4 body like a Cab) the manual A/C is disabled below a
certain outside air temperature (OAT). The manual describes this in more
detail and I do not recall the exact temperature, but it is surprisingly
not that low, like lower 40s or upper 30s (F). The disabling function is
handled by a seperate thermostat that lives in the fresh-air intake cowl, 
ie not the same thermister that is the sensor for the OAT gage/readout.

I have a wish to bypass this "feature" someday, as I would like AC
sometimes when the temperatures are in the in the upper 20s to mid 40s
(F) for defogging the windows.

Could this be what is going on with your rig? What kind of air temps do
you folks have in rainy/slushy Pennsylvania right now?

Tom LH