Technical Heating problems!

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Technical Heating problems!

J Birch

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Hi All,

Only had my Panda 100HP for a few days now and i love everything about it, apart from one minor niggle, which im sure can be sorted with some technical expertise from the kind people on this forum.

Forgive me for not being technical, and this may be a very obvious fix, but ill explain.

Unless i switch the air con on, actually pushing the snowflake button, on LO, then the heater blows hot air, even on 16deg, and every half degree increment upwards. As the weather is getting slighly better, i'd like this to work!

Is this just a case of having the air con re-gassed? or is it a common problem?

Thanks for all your help!
 
Do you mean it feels too warm then?

I'm pretty sure that on my 100hp you can turn the aircon off (press the off button) then keep pressing the temp controller down below 16 degrees - this way it goes onto 'cold' but not 'aircon' cold, so its basically cold air coming in from outside.

Does this help?

Ian.
 
As said, if you have the air con off it can't blow colder than ambient air. If you stick it in auto, it'll cycle the air con on and off to maintain the set temps.

Do you find the temp display flashing? It may do this with air con off to say it can't achieve a temp that low.

For me, apart from the coldest of mornings when the bloody thing seems to think it doesn't need air onto a windscreen to demist it, it's in Auto all the time.
 
Thanks for the advice,

i didnt really explain myself clearly in the first post, it doesnt really matter what temp i set it to, it blows hot air, and i mean, hot air.
even when i press auto, and set it to say... 20 degrees, it still blows hot. The temp it blows at doesnt change, no matter how much i change the setting...

Please excuse my lack of ability to explain things clearly!

your help is appreciated!
 
What's the lowest temperature setting you have tried that's still blowing hot air? I've found the numbers don't seem to tie up with actual temperature and in the winter months I've been running the car at 30 deg C, which feels more like 22 deg C in my previous car. Likewise, in the warmer months 18 or 20 deg C can be too warm and I end up running it around 16 deg C or even on Lo (for a while anyway) to cool the car.

One problem on VAG cars was that if you were getting hot air all the time, chances were the flap motors (which adjust the ratio of hot/cold air coming into the cabin) were stuck and needed resetting.

Chris
 
Even as lown down as 16degrees the air is still very warm.

In my last car, an Alfa 156, i tended to leave the climate control on around 19.5/20degrees on auto, and that was fine, but if i do this in the panda, my feet get blasted with hot air which is uncomfortable...

I may just get a mobile air con re-gas person out to take a quick look!
 
well, left it on AUTO all day today and its been fine!

Ill keep a close eye on it and see how it goes!
 
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