[s-cars] No heat

[Jerry Scott]

I had the same problem and found it to be the plastic linkage for the 
heater control flap, binding on other parts of the linkage.  The fix was 
to file off the interference. The motor for the flap was not the problem.

 E-mail me for a write-up.

Jerry Scott

Tony wrote:

>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.
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>Tony
>96 S6
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>----- 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
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>>Sunny day yesterday? Parked out in the sun?
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>>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
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>>the sun).
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>>If that's not the case, you should probably read the error codes on the
>>climate control to see what's up.
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>>HTH,
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>>Lee
>>'95.5 S6 avant (Bilstein/Eibach/Euros/HID/BIRA S3) (mine)
>>'96 A6 quattro avant (Euros) (hers)
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>>>-----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
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>>>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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