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Old 10-08-2009, 04:57 PM
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We posted simultaneously. AUTO works fine for me, with a couple of adjustments per year. I always thought it was about getting the settings right, and then leaving it alone. Think of it this way: how often do you adjust the thermostat in your house? For us, it is the same temp all year, possibly down a degree for more AC in the summer. Once you get the vents set correctly, and the flows balanced, then it can be left alone.

Or maybe I personally just have a very consistent sense of what temperature I want the car to be, I'm not sure. I do know that while I like 19, my wife likes 21 on the passenger side, and the car seems to be able to deal with that just fine.
How do you set up the settings? You just put it on auto and just set it to what you would normally have it and then click on whatever setting once again and from then on it turns on to whatever it previously was set to? :/
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JCL - just curious, what do you set your manual temp dial (center vents) at? Red/Blue/Center?

Although I am able to keep the HVAC on Auto, I still need to mess with the dial to avoid hot/cold air blowing. If I leave it on center (I assume blend), there seems to be a bit too much fan noise.
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JCL - just curious, what do you set your manual temp dial (center vents) at? Red/Blue/Center?

Although I am able to keep the HVAC on Auto, I still need to mess with the dial to avoid hot/cold air blowing. If I leave it on center (I assume blend), there seems to be a bit too much fan noise.
One blue dot, as I like the air at face level to be 1 C colder than the ambient in the car. Sometimes 2 blue dots for 2 C in the summer.

Centre means no offset from the ambient cabin setting to the temperture of the air flowing out the face level vents. Every dot is one degree warmer or colder for that centre vent only. Designed to keep the driver alert by having fresh air on the face.
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