Re: 5KCS Foot Heat

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

Steve;

    I noticed this problem when I got my first Audi - an '86 5ktq. My
solution was simple - I shut off the all the centre vents. This diverts all
the heat to the footwell vents, otherwise it comes out the centre vents.
This is now my SOP for winter use.

HTH

Fred Munro
'91 200q  262k km
-----Original Message-----
From: spsherm@ibm.net <spsherm@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: alt.autos.audi
To: munrof <munrof>
Cc: quattro <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 5:17 PM
Subject: 5KCS Foot Heat


>I've got a 5K CS Climate Control question that I have not seen covered
>before...
>
>The CC works fine (after some vacuum line clean-up) for summer and fall
>type stuff.  Center vents working, temp control OK all that.
>
>Now that it is occassionally sort of cold (teens at 20's at least) the
>heat to the foot well area does not seem to work in econo or auto or
>bi-level over the long haul.
>
>At first, when warming the car up, the system seems to do OK, at least
>it is putting out a bunch of hot air as soon as the engine temp get warm
>enough.  But after it reaches the temp setting, relatively cool air only
>seems to flow.
>
>Perhaps I am just used to the "dumb" climate controls, where you can
>manually direct a stream of hot air down to the foot well...but I can't
>find a setting that will get warm air coming out of those bottom foot
>well vents.  I understand the system giving priority to the windsheild
>at first, but especially on bi-level I would have expected some heat
>coming out down below...
>
>Is this just the winter version of "my center vents doen't work" or does
>this system never really put much air down in the foot wells?
>
>TIA
>
>Steve