[s-cars] climate control woes

[Ian Duff]

Might be a busted tstat, broken open, so the coolant never gets warm  
enough to provide enough heat to warrant the full on hurricane  
setting of the fan. Busted tstat is a fairly common issue. HTH
-Ian Duff.

On 22 Oct, 2007, at 11:43, Matt Russell wrote:

> hey y'all-
>
> first - congrats Paul K on the p-car! jealousy my way across 2000  
> miles
> at you...8-)  My day will come *sigh*...
>
> second - I'm having issues with heat - with Auto selected, no matter
> how warm Temp gauge says the car is (on it's way up to, or operating
> temp) fan is only max 3 to 4 lines in operation..... Anotherwords, if
> the car is 40 degrees, the Auto setting produces heat as if the  
> climate
> control is trying to heat up the interior, but at a fan speed that
> won't rise above 3 or 4 lines.
>
> overriding the fan setting (manually) and increasing it will produce
> more heat and seems to operate as it should.
>
> MFTS was replaced 6 months ago along with T-stat.
>
> Now, channel 1 in the CC shows no codes, but channel 51 doesn't show
> any temperature greater than 50-54 degrees, even when car is fully
> warmed up.  This sounds like a direction to head in, but where to  
> start
> testing?
>
> last - Does anyone know what happened to the complete list of codes
> that used to be at the 12v.org site? i cannot seem to find it, or the
> links i found in the archive search are down...
>
> -Matt, CO
> 92 s4
>
>
>
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