A4 A/C, climate control

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

   Down here in Texas were Audis never really seem to have been really

We've been having a "heat wave" (no, really, it's "official") up here
in NewEngland . . . yesterday afternoon I was cruisin' in my A4, and
the A/C was just barely able to keep up with the heat (it was lo/mid
90's (F), and the climate control kept the fan up to [i.e., would not
drop below] two notches below max).  Anyways, I was wondering how the
A4 A/C in particular (any other Audis in general) worked out there
where it actually gets hot . . .

Also, the climate control computer seems to run the A/C in recirc
when the car first starts and it's been heat-soaking in the sun for
awhile; has anyone else noticed this? It seems to me that it would
be better to run "fresh" air, since there's good odds that the 
outside air is cooler than the heat-soaked interior air, at least
until the interior gets A/Ced back down to something reasonable.

Obligatory grumble: Not only does the #%$#!ing climate control not
let you run recirc when it's cold, it runs *ONLY* recirc when it's
hot (as in above paragraph). Further, it not only ignores the recirc
button, it does *NOT* lite the recirc symbol.  Man, if I ever get
my hands on the <deleted> who coded that thing, well, he won't be
having any more children, that's fer sur! Get them damn genes out
of the gene pool before it's too late!

Grumble . . .

					-RDH