[s-cars] climate control issues

[Taka Mizutani]

That's not normal- you should swap units to see if it is the control unit.
If it still does that, I would suspect the flapper door motors.

Taka


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Patrick Moores <pfm2316 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Less urgent.... but is a perfectly normal CC unit supposed to be incredibly
> difficult and ornery to live with and operate? I have no previous
> experience
> with any other than the one that came with my 95 S6 but this thing has a
> mind of its own....like it will give me heat to my feet whenever asked, but
> I cannot get it to respond to the central position, and sometimes it
> refuses
> to defrost the windshield, sometimes it won't go into auto and other
> times it won't go out of auto,and other times I cannot get it to lower
> the speed or temp when I return to my car after work when its 70deg
> inside but I had the heat on in the morning when it was sub 40deg,
> so upon start up it blasts heat at high speed for 20min when its already
> hot in the car....
> I've purchased a used CC unit as a backup.....should I be swapping
> it out and stop putting up with this stubborn unit that i have or is this
> thing trying to operate as intendedc thinking it knows best....seriously,
> most of the function it allows me to perform it does so grudgingly,
> do I get a new CC unit or an exorcism?
> (above description may contain slight exaggerations - slight)
>
> patrick - blown away - moores
>