Ventilation question

[vwdaun at yahoo.com (Daun Yeagley)]

--- silvius14@comcast.net wrote:

> On my 1982 the air conditioning works, the heat works but
> when I turn it on vent I seem to get warm air.  It
> doesn't seem to matter about the position of the
> temperature control.
> 
> Even if I have the fan off I feel warm air at my legs
> while driving.  Kind of sucks on hot days (air
> conditioning is that great), so I guess it will be
> wonderful for winter driving.

I never bothered to fix it in my (now dead) '85 winter car.

But as Cathy mentioned, it's most likely the heater valve
out in the engine bay.  FWIW, it may be opening & closing
when you move the lever, but they seem to go bad
internally, at least that's the way mine have always
failed.  It's a cheap part, and gives you a good excuse to
flush the cooling system at the same time.


Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
'81 Scirocco S               '86 Scirocco 8v
'88 Scirocco 16v             '88 Scirocco Slegato 
'96 Passat GLX Wagon         '56 Cessna 172
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Ehrlich's Law.

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