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11-24-07, 03:04 PM
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Anyone else struggling with the heater settings.
i live in the northeast and i usually leave the temperarture at 72 degrees year round. here are the issues i seem to be having:
*even when the system automatically (or i manually) set the airflow to the floor, quite a bit comes out of the top stacks, and while my feet are cold, my face gets way too hot. if i turn the temperature to 70 my feet freeze, especially the left one.
*when on dual mode, i set driver to 72 and passenger to 78. my left foot is now ice cold.
*by hand (im trying to figure out a way to measure) it seems that the right side yields much cooler air than the left when set at 72.
*closing the top vents help, but when it is a little warme rin the day i have to always open and close. kind of annoying
*summer / hot temperatures are no problem at all. just when it gets cold.
i have had other vehicles where when the heat is on, it is bottom only, like it should be. also, with auto temp the upper air is usually a bit cooler, never hot, but here on the IS i get hot air from the top which is particularly annoying (especially when my foot is cold).
i asked the dealer about it last winter and then said since i kept it at 70F thats why my foot was cold, system was OK. going to 72 helped my feet, but now i get a face fuill of steam.
the only thing i can see as a potential root cause is the difference in temperatures between the two sides. these should be the same if both sides set the same, no?
thanks for the help, obviously i would like to get as much info as possible because i know the dealer will look at me like i have 6 heads and tell me teh system is fine.
i live in the northeast and i usually leave the temperarture at 72 degrees year round. here are the issues i seem to be having:
*even when the system automatically (or i manually) set the airflow to the floor, quite a bit comes out of the top stacks, and while my feet are cold, my face gets way too hot. if i turn the temperature to 70 my feet freeze, especially the left one.
*when on dual mode, i set driver to 72 and passenger to 78. my left foot is now ice cold.
*by hand (im trying to figure out a way to measure) it seems that the right side yields much cooler air than the left when set at 72.
*closing the top vents help, but when it is a little warme rin the day i have to always open and close. kind of annoying
*summer / hot temperatures are no problem at all. just when it gets cold.
i have had other vehicles where when the heat is on, it is bottom only, like it should be. also, with auto temp the upper air is usually a bit cooler, never hot, but here on the IS i get hot air from the top which is particularly annoying (especially when my foot is cold).
i asked the dealer about it last winter and then said since i kept it at 70F thats why my foot was cold, system was OK. going to 72 helped my feet, but now i get a face fuill of steam.
the only thing i can see as a potential root cause is the difference in temperatures between the two sides. these should be the same if both sides set the same, no?
thanks for the help, obviously i would like to get as much info as possible because i know the dealer will look at me like i have 6 heads and tell me teh system is fine.
11-24-07, 03:16 PM
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i have weird problems with our a.c system too... usually i have my side on 75 while my GF gets cold easily she likes to keep the temp at 80 - 84.... now if mine and hers is at 80 there's no problem but when mines at 75 and her's at 84 her "air" seems to blow out cold air... until i actually set hers to HI then it blows out hot air or warm i should say... i also tested this with the a/c on and a/c off... that was the only thing i could think of but same problem
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