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Climate control buttons. Analog retrofit?
I have the digital climate controls. The large rocker button for the fan speed - / + is broken and often falls off. Yesterday it fell down through the ashtray thing below, I tried to get it but failed and it fell further down into the depths of the center transmission tunnel area.
I can barely see it. I think if I put something sticky on a coat hanger I might be able to get it. But I'm done with this. I don't like the panel anyway as changing from hot to cold is about 65 button presses. I think this is a common problem, and I looked earlier at repair options and just ended up being confused. It seemed really hard and worse to attempt to repair these buttons. :confused: Is there a good way to fix this short of replacing the entire control unit? If I have to replace the entire unit I believe there is a nice analog one from some rare earlier models with three dials. I would rather just get that and put that in but I imagine this would require some coding and potentially other changes? Does anybody know? |
Have you considered something like this perhaps?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/11284342717...3ABFBMoOWIht9k |
It's automatic AC. I barely never need to touch the panel. Why would you need constant button pushing?
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My wife's Tiguan has similar controls... and when I ride with her, there's approx. forty-seven button presses before we've left the garage... :rolleyes: |
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Retrofitting the analog HVAC panel is not straightforward, it is a lot more involved than replacing the panel and it is absolutely a significant downgrade. You will have to source the manual control mechanisms for the blend doors and then take the dash apart to install them.
I am pretty sure you can just hold the button down to cycle through fan speed or temps faster or at least, without multiple single presses... Better yet, as others mentioned, is just to set it to a temp you like and let the "AUTO" do it's thing. It will adjust fan speed as necessary to get the temp where you placed it. There are also OE, and aftermarket, replacement buttons and panels available. |
Mines been left set at 22°c for the last 10 years and I've never changed it. Work's as it should.
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Ha, the same thing happened to my heat button. Remove the ash trash. The button is underneath it. It doesn't fall down onto the trans tunnel. I ordered a button set off ebay. As buttons fall off, I replace them. |
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Thanks guys. I was able to retrieve the button from some deep crevice in the carpet. A piece of claybar on the coat hanger got it.
I didn't know the analog panel is totally different, non automatic system. That makes sense. I won't be doing all that work of course. I couldn't even find the panel to buy so far. Bummer, as that would be nice. I can't find the page now, but there was a guide I think for e39, putting the individual buttons on the panel, and it seemed not worth attempting. He had all kinds of knives and glue on the table. I guess it's hard to do. The entire face panel is about $75, I will probably suck it up and get this https://www.bimmerworld.com/BMW-Inte...116915812.html In the morning it is freezing cold, so I crank the heat to 80/25 something to get warm. I then start sweating like a whore in church, so down to 60/15 something. then I end up in the middle. I will try to just leave it around 70/20. |
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There's really no need to turn it up when it's cold or down when it's hot. The "auto" will take care of that and will adjust fan speed and output temp to reach the desired temp. Ie. If you set it at 70 and it's 40 in the car it won't just blow 70 degree air, it'll blow ~80 or max temp air until around 70 then adjust temp and fan speed to maintain that temp. That's the whole point of the "auto" function.
The only time I ever deviate from leaving it on auto is when it's really hot in the car I'll press MAX for Max a/c then once it cools a bit I'll put it back to auto. That's just two button presses though. |
I just remembered the good old days when you could buy the original button set from BWM and what came in the package was a full front panel with just some yellow paint on the fascia which you could easily clean and install the full front panel on fraction of the price of the actual front panel which was also available.
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Still available |
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