RE: climate control replacement

["Livolsi, Stephane" <livols1@investorsgroup.com>]

Thanks Fred, but...... the defrost button on my car is an integral part
of the climate control unit.  It is a switch on the face of the unit
next to the lo, auto, hi, defrost buttons.  There is no separate dash
mounted switch for the rear window defrost.  I think the original
climate control also had the defogger switch built into it because I
don't see one on the dash and all the wiring in there looks original
(ie. not cut and spliced)

Stephane Livolsi
180 Yorston St
Williams Lake, BC, V2G 3Z1
ph 250-392-2637
fax 250-392-2693

'86 5KTQ stock (if you don't know what it means, you aren't in the club)

>----------
>From: 	Fred Munro[SMTP:munrof@isys.ca]
>Sent: 	October 23, 1999 3:10 PM
>To: 	Livolsi, Stephane; 'Audi Quattro List'
>Subject: 	Re: climate control replacement
>
>The rear window defrost has nothing to do with the climate control,
>Stephane. It is an electrically heated grid powered from the switch in the
>dash. Check the fuse & the switch. If these are OK, check the wiring
>connectors to the window grid and check the main grid lines (vertical lines
>at the sides of the window) for breaks.
>
>HTH
>
>Fred Munro
>'94 S4  91k km
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Livolsi, Stephane <livols1@investorsgroup.com>
>To: 'Audi Quattro List' <quattro@audifans.com>
>Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 4:10 PM
>Subject: climate control replacement
>
>
>> Hello all.  It's a gorgeous day here and probably one of the last nice
>> days of the year so I am taking advantage of it and really going to town
>> on the little things wrong with my car.
>>
>> 1. Driver seat heater does not work
>> 2. Passenger power seat just stopped working 2 days ago.
>> 3. rear defrost does not work
>> 4. climate control does not work properly
>> 5. major cleaning and lubing, etc
>>
>> I figured out that the problem with the seat heater is somewhere in the
>> wiring between the switch and the relay.  I swapped the driver side
>> switch with the passenger one. Passenger side still works, drivers side
>> still doesn't. OK the switch is good.  Swapped the driver side relay for
>> the passenger side relay. Neither one works.  Hmmmmm..... OK driver side
>> relay is toast (opened it up and couldn't find anything wrong but the
>> tests indicate it must be bad), but when I put the good relay from the
>> passenger side, into the driver side slot, it still doesn't work.  So I
>> figure I have both a bad relay and bad wiring somewhere.  Any ideas
>> where the wiring could go bad?
>>
>> I took the climate control unit out of the dash and noted that it is not
>> original, it has auto wrecker markings on it and is labeled 87 5000
>> turbo.  NOW, I know that starting in (late?) 1986, the climate control
>> unit got some sort of diagnostic feature built into it.  The date of
>> manufacture on my car is 9/85.  Do you see the problem?   I suspect this
>> is why my climate control and rear defrost don't work properly -
>> internal wiring on the climate control may be different.  Can anybody
>> confirm that the 87 unit either will or won't work in my 86 5K?
>>
>> As always, thanks for the help, gang
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> Stephane Livolsi
>> 180 Yorston St
>> Williams Lake, BC, V2G 3Z1
>> ph 250-392-2637
>> fax 250-392-2693
>>
>> '86 5KTQ stock (if you don't know what it means, you aren't in the club)
>>
>
>