Re: A4 nits (was Re: 98 Passat Wagon - Helicopter mode)

[Steve Manning <stephenm@ix.netcom.com>]

At 05:53 PM 5/20/98 -0400, Robert Houk wrote:
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>override for most of the operations like which vents, fan speed, and
>so on (although *why* does the fan speed keep changing even after I
>put it in manual mode?????)

Actually I think this is one of the really nice features of the A4 climate
control...when you manually change the speed of the fan, you are setting a
*relative* speed, not an absolute.  So if the climate control decides that
the fan speed should be '8', and you set it down one notch to '7', it
doesn't stay forever on '7'.  Instead it subtracts '1' from every fan speed
it wants to set.  So if it decides the fan speed should be '5', it
subtracts '1' and makes it '4'.  Sounds a little weird until you use it,
then you love it.  Makes the auto climate control on the 200 with its lousy
manual fan speed setting of either 'waft' or 'gale' seem really
primitive............SLM

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