The heating system.
I always thought the two dials control front and rear air temperature.
Well, today I discovered that the temperature of the air was significantly different between the left and right outlets. I felt mine were a bit cold and didn't check the passenger's. I thought it was just the engine being cold but after a considerable time, air was still cold so I checked the passenger outlets and do you know?
Toasty warm.
Now that is the kind of betrayal that makes you think your life is one big lie and you want to murder someone right there and then. Given I was by myself I put that on the to do list and I resigned to adjusting the temperature down on the left dial, which swiftly resulted in cold air being expelled by the respective outlets. No change on the right. Hmmm. Playing with the right dial had little effect, but after even more time, the air coming out in my face turned lukewarm so I could check that indeed the right dial controls the right outlets only and the left controls the left.
Alright. I'm totally ignorant about how my car works (at least partly intentionally) but now I wonder what is wrong.
Does it have two heaters and each is controlled by its own dial? Sounds complicated. Or just one heater with two separate sections? Sounds idiotic. Does it have two sets of mixing flaps, one for each dial? Still complicated but plausible. But that still means something is wrong. Given the dials feel like any jog dial I've ever come across I would hazard a guess they control some sort of stepper? servo? motors that open and close the flaps. Which would be have to be quite accurate in their movement to control that perfect mix of cold and hot air given the dials display the temperature in half a degree steps. I mean, the precision, man, the precision! Well, maybe it's just to impress the public, after all can anyone here tell what temperature their room is down to half a degree? Well, I can't.
Either way, can anyone let me know if I'm up for a new servo? Or is there some sort of brain/control module that kicked it?
Alternatively, if stupidity won over greed and there are two heaters, what sort of hell am I going to throw myself in should I decide to replace the miscreant one?
And just as I type I have this revelation. What if this is the design, a dirty conspiracy to keep the driver alert?
Screw this, I'm swapping the plugs over. Or the servos. SOMETHINGGG!
And it's cold as shit, can't put it off.
Grrrrrrack! Work under the dash. Yuck.
I always thought the two dials control front and rear air temperature.
Well, today I discovered that the temperature of the air was significantly different between the left and right outlets. I felt mine were a bit cold and didn't check the passenger's. I thought it was just the engine being cold but after a considerable time, air was still cold so I checked the passenger outlets and do you know?
Toasty warm.
Now that is the kind of betrayal that makes you think your life is one big lie and you want to murder someone right there and then. Given I was by myself I put that on the to do list and I resigned to adjusting the temperature down on the left dial, which swiftly resulted in cold air being expelled by the respective outlets. No change on the right. Hmmm. Playing with the right dial had little effect, but after even more time, the air coming out in my face turned lukewarm so I could check that indeed the right dial controls the right outlets only and the left controls the left.
Alright. I'm totally ignorant about how my car works (at least partly intentionally) but now I wonder what is wrong.
Does it have two heaters and each is controlled by its own dial? Sounds complicated. Or just one heater with two separate sections? Sounds idiotic. Does it have two sets of mixing flaps, one for each dial? Still complicated but plausible. But that still means something is wrong. Given the dials feel like any jog dial I've ever come across I would hazard a guess they control some sort of stepper? servo? motors that open and close the flaps. Which would be have to be quite accurate in their movement to control that perfect mix of cold and hot air given the dials display the temperature in half a degree steps. I mean, the precision, man, the precision! Well, maybe it's just to impress the public, after all can anyone here tell what temperature their room is down to half a degree? Well, I can't.
Either way, can anyone let me know if I'm up for a new servo? Or is there some sort of brain/control module that kicked it?
Alternatively, if stupidity won over greed and there are two heaters, what sort of hell am I going to throw myself in should I decide to replace the miscreant one?
And just as I type I have this revelation. What if this is the design, a dirty conspiracy to keep the driver alert?
Screw this, I'm swapping the plugs over. Or the servos. SOMETHINGGG!
And it's cold as shit, can't put it off.
Grrrrrrack! Work under the dash. Yuck.
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