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philhusbands
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Hi everyone!
I've had a search through the archives, but I cant find any answers to this...
This recent gloooorious weather does have the adverse effect of making the interior of my A2 very warm indeed! No problem though, as I have Climate Control.
I've got a bit of a query regarding its performance though, so I thought I would put this to all of you and see what you think.
In the past, I have set the CC to something like 18c and let it do its thing. I have found however that doing this did not really ensure a steady cold blast to get the temperature down as fast as possible. So instead I set it to LO and always made sure that the ECON is off of course.
What I have found is that the resulting expelled air is not always really that cold. In fact, it's temperature seems to vary between mildly tepid and definetely chilly!
It does this on AUTO, but I thought it was because the CC's 'brain' was at work making all of its clever adjustments.
In my experience with other cars with run-of-the-mill AC, switching the AC on ensures that the air is unquestionably refridgerated. In my A2, I am sometimes left wondering if it is working at all.
On my return home today I was sure that the CC was not chilling the air as much as it should be. I switched on ECON and felt the air from the vents - not too cold at all as expected. I switched the ECON off, and I could hear things in the dash whiring into life, but only detected a very small drop in the temerature of the air.
And then further curiosities. I turn the engine off, and then restart. After a brief pause the CC jumps into action and joy! Ice cold air streams from the vents. It was as if switching off the engine had somehow reset something?
The net result of all this is of course that I am still unsatisfactorily hot in my A2, even with the CC on LO and ECON switched off. [7]
Has anyone experienced anything similiar? Is there a problem? Or am I using the CC incorrectly? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Cheers everyone...
Phil. TDi Sport, silver, with Climate and OpenSky.
I've had a search through the archives, but I cant find any answers to this...
This recent gloooorious weather does have the adverse effect of making the interior of my A2 very warm indeed! No problem though, as I have Climate Control.
I've got a bit of a query regarding its performance though, so I thought I would put this to all of you and see what you think.
In the past, I have set the CC to something like 18c and let it do its thing. I have found however that doing this did not really ensure a steady cold blast to get the temperature down as fast as possible. So instead I set it to LO and always made sure that the ECON is off of course.
What I have found is that the resulting expelled air is not always really that cold. In fact, it's temperature seems to vary between mildly tepid and definetely chilly!
It does this on AUTO, but I thought it was because the CC's 'brain' was at work making all of its clever adjustments.
In my experience with other cars with run-of-the-mill AC, switching the AC on ensures that the air is unquestionably refridgerated. In my A2, I am sometimes left wondering if it is working at all.
On my return home today I was sure that the CC was not chilling the air as much as it should be. I switched on ECON and felt the air from the vents - not too cold at all as expected. I switched the ECON off, and I could hear things in the dash whiring into life, but only detected a very small drop in the temerature of the air.
And then further curiosities. I turn the engine off, and then restart. After a brief pause the CC jumps into action and joy! Ice cold air streams from the vents. It was as if switching off the engine had somehow reset something?
The net result of all this is of course that I am still unsatisfactorily hot in my A2, even with the CC on LO and ECON switched off. [7]
Has anyone experienced anything similiar? Is there a problem? Or am I using the CC incorrectly? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Cheers everyone...
Phil. TDi Sport, silver, with Climate and OpenSky.