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

[Robert Houk - SMCC WorkGroup Server Firmware <Robert.Houk@East.Sun.COM>]

   >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

Hmmm..."primitive" or "neurotic" -- which would I prefer...

I'll hafta check out that mode of operation and see if that's what it
is doing -- that could actually be useful.

On another front -- one I just today recognized:

Why Oh Why did Audi use two different classes of fuses (in the A4) --
both "full-sized" ATO and the "mini" fuses! Grrr!!!  (At least they aren't
using those horrid open ceramic fuses of the mid-'80ies)  Oh well, I'm
used to carrying an assortment of goodies around...

					-RDH