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AdamLalana

AdamLalana

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I will add some picture after, but I have removed the glovebox and having a good look at the motors and everything is moving freely.
The issue I have is that when the flap opens to 21 it stops there, maxed out. Is it possible the teeth have slipped and its in the wrong position?
 

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AdamLalana said:
I will add some picture after, but I have removed the glovebox and having a good look at the motors and everything is moving freely.
The issue I have is that when the flap opens to 21 it stops there, maxed out. Is it possible the teeth have slipped and its in the wrong position?
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Is this something that was OK, but isn't now, or always a problem in your ownership? Wonder if it's been worked on, and reassembled incorrectly?
Mac.
 
When you say it stops at 21 (degrees?) - is this when the broad tooth on one of the interacting pinions interacts with a non-gap in the other one so it stops moving? If you look at the intermeshing teeth, there is a broad tooth and a corresponding broad gap on the interacting partner to ensure that the system lines up properly to give full movement range. If as @PlasticMac has said above the reassembly instructions haven't been followed properly in terms of starting position of vent and motor it is quite possible that this is the case.
 
Robin_Cox said:
When you say it stops at 21 (degrees?) - is this when the broad tooth on one of the interacting pinions interacts with a non-gap in the other one so it stops moving? If you look at the intermeshing teeth, there is a broad tooth and a corresponding broad gap on the interacting partner to ensure that the system lines up properly to give full movement range. If as @PlasticMac has said above the reassembly instructions haven't been followed properly in terms of starting position of vent and motor it is quite possible that this is the case.
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Is there a guide or picture?
I see that there are 3 tabs holding the lot in place, but the black flap is part of the whole matrix. uptop looks like the cogs that open the directional controls, is it safe to pull the lot out and try and realign ?
 
Have a good read of this thread...


Anatomy of the A2 climate unit

Introduction: Recently I have needed to do work on the climate unit in my A2. As I found certain information for right hand drive cars hard to find, I purchased the complete interior climate unit from a breakers. This allowed me to learn how it is put together, a task not possible with the...
www.a2oc.net
 
audifan said:
Have a good read of this thread...


Anatomy of the A2 climate unit

Introduction: Recently I have needed to do work on the climate unit in my A2. As I found certain information for right hand drive cars hard to find, I purchased the complete interior climate unit from a breakers. This allowed me to learn how it is put together, a task not possible with the...
www.a2oc.net
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that has made me even more confused..
this image, shows the white cog as the demister cog.. but on mine the white cog is opening the temperate flap...has mine been fitted upside down ??
 

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It looks the opposite, but my white cog has a lot less teeth..
 

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AdamLalana said:
that has made me even more confused..
this image, shows the white cog as the demister cog.. but on mine the white cog is opening the temperate flap...has mine been fitted upside down ??
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that would presumably result in your Climatronic drawing air out of the cabin, chilling it and blowing it out of the bonnet... :)

being serious for a minute, I think I've read somewhere that there are early and late versions of the V68 temperature flap motor. Could it be that you've got a different version from the photo here?

Resolved this question - from the linked thread :

"The picture shows the early motors on the left and a temperature flap motor from a 2004 MY car on the right for comparison.
The later motor design has fewer gear teeth which makes alignment easier. The later motor can be realigned by feel as the last teeth of both wheels match up at the very end of travel.
By comparison, the earlier motor design’s teeth extend further so it is only possible to align the gears visually."

Hence the different number of teeth you commented on.
 
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Robin_Cox said:
that would presumably result in your Climatronic drawing air out of the cabin, chilling it and blowing it out of the bonnet... :)

being serious for a minute, I think I've read somewhere that there are early and late versions of the V68 temperature flap motor. Could it be that you've got a different version from the photo here?

Resolved this question - from the linked thread :

"The picture shows the early motors on the left and a temperature flap motor from a 2004 MY car on the right for comparison.
The later motor design has fewer gear teeth which makes alignment easier. The later motor can be realigned by feel as the last teeth of both wheels match up at the very end of travel.
By comparison, the earlier motor design’s teeth extend further so it is only possible to align the gears visually."

Hence the different number of teeth you commented on.
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PlasticMac said:
That's the later motor, is your car 2004 on?
Mac.
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audifan said:
Hence why I said to have a GOOD read of the thread.....
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I swapped them over and it works.. can you believe it.. The top one functioned the wrong way, but the bottom one only half functioned hence maxing out at 21 on the digital display.
I now have a hot car for the first time in about 9 months, since I bought it..
 
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