triumph7 said:

Agree with scout500. Best to run climate control on auto, dial a temp & just leave it do its job....

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Exactly - demist if you must, up the temp to 22 if it's really cold and down to 17 if there's a lot of sun coming in to the car, otherwise leave it alone.

Good news, the problems I had with the direction control seems to be gone now. At the moment everything is working as it should.

I'm finding that my new pada with manual heating/ventilation is really poor at heating your feet. The passenger side (port side UK) gets more air flow

deeyup said:

I'm finding that my new pada with manual heating/ventilation is really poor at heating your feet. The passenger side (port side UK) gets more air flow

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Funny you should mention that - have tried directing the air flow towards the floor and I agree that it is absolute rubbish on the driver's side.

Possible RHD conversion issue?

Super Uwe said:

Possible RHD conversion issue?

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Air boxes are normally the same for RHD and LHD from experience, so doubt its that.

kronsell said:

Good news, the problems I had with the direction control seems to be gone now. At the moment everything is working as it should.

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What was the solution or did the problem just go away?

Super Uwe said:

Funny you should mention that - have tried directing the air flow towards the floor and I agree that it is absolute rubbish on the driver's side.

Possible RHD conversion issue?

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Could be that's how they are then, and with the lhd versions the driver gets hotter feet?

scout500 said:

What was the solution or did the problem just go away?

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Yes, the problem vent away by itself. Earlier I was not able to switch the airflow to the feet from the Dashboard. But now I Can hear when the flow is changing and feel it too. Sometimes it happens that I can't stop the airflow from the Dashboard unless I first Press the button for airflow to the windows. After this I can switch flow between the dashboard and feet without problems.

Here's a quick status on the climate problem.
The problem with the air direction controls kept annoying me, and the temperature’s still hard to adjust, so I took the car to the dealer’s workshop yesterday.

The technician made a computer readout from the Panda and there was in fact an error unknown to Fiat. Something about a shortcut somewhere, that could be the cause of the climate control’s bad behavior.
Now they have sent this error to Fiat Italy and they will decide what to do with the problem.

Another strange thing we found is the start/stop system only works properly if the lights are in off position. If the lights are on, the start/stop system will stop the engine but restart after a few second because of the tolerance rules set in the computer.
Dealer finds it strange too, but Fiat says this is the way it’s designed. Hopefully enough people will mention this and an update will be made.

Status update. My panda spend 7 days at the local dealers workshop and now the problems have been sorted out. The problem was a bad electric motor that controls the air direction flap. While the workshow was waiting for a spare from Fiat Italy I got a fiat 500l 1.4 peteol to drive around in. Nice soft and comfy car but i found it a tad too slow. Im glad to have my panda back again, but excellent service though.