Heating issues

[Wheelspinwardrobe]

Hi peeps


I went to drop the misses off this morning and on our journey I was colder today (silly cold weather - winter rrrrraaaaaa)

So I blasted the heating out on 28 - both sides. and only Hollys side was hot, mine came out cold

Is this a common problem??? Im not sure if this is relevant but the rec button and auto button for the climate control kept flashing yesterday????? any ideas or is my car mental???

Thanks Phill

[NorthlandDave]

Hi Phill,

Sounds like the driver's damper motor that controls your temperature is playing up (seperate motor for left and right). The lights flash when the climate control stores a code which it might have done because the motor isn't moving when its telling it to or the motor is in the wrong position.

If you take out the panel under the steering wheel (3 T25 screws) there's two black motors on the left side, i think the one you want is the one towards the front of the car. You could try pulling it off (three small torx screws from memory) and turning the shaft manually to see if you get hot/cold air? Before you do that though turn to full hot or cold on temp control (with ignition on) so that the motor tries to go to its end position and on refitting have the shaft set to whatever end position is hot or cold (hope that makes sense).

You can also try reading and clearing codes or recalibrating the damper motors, but it depends on if you have the diagnostic socket under the coin holder or the diagnostic unit under the bonnet by the washer fluid filler on how you do it.