[s-cars] No heat
Tony
tony.curran at sympatico.ca
Sat Apr 24 13:13:17 EDT 2004
If the problem is not as described below then it could be the flapper motor.
I had this problem and was a $300Cdn fix at my local dealer.
Tony
96 S6
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Levitt" <lee at wheelman.com>
To: <davidpriebe at cablespeed.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 4:08 AM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] No heat
> Sunny day yesterday? Parked out in the sun?
>
> If so, you probably don't have any problem. When you park in the sun, the
> dash temp sensor warms up and gives a (false) warm cabin reading, so the
> climate control calls for cold. It's a bug (undocumented feature?) of the
> system. Try it again today after the car has been sitting overnight (out
of
> the sun).
>
> If that's not the case, you should probably read the error codes on the
> climate control to see what's up.
>
> HTH,
>
> Lee
> '95.5 S6 avant (Bilstein/Eibach/Euros/HID/BIRA S3) (mine)
> '96 A6 quattro avant (Euros) (hers)
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of
> > davidpriebe at cablespeed.com
> > Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 1:28 AM
> > To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> > Subject: [s-cars] No heat
> >
> > I drove my wife's S6 today for the first time in a couple of
> > months, and noticed that her heater is not blowing hot air.
> > It blows cool air just fine, and directs it to all of the
> > appropriate places. But no matter how high I set the
> > temperature, no hot air came through. The coolant temperature
> > guage is reading the normal operating temp.
> > But it did take considerably longer to heat up than does my
> > 200, about 5 minutes longer. I have no idea where to even
> > begin in trying to diagnose what the problem is. So any
> > pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > David Priebe
> > Carnation, WA
> > 91 200tqa 182k (his)
> > 95.5 S6 114k (hers)
> > 66 MGB 41k
> >
>
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