307 Climate Control

Greetings everyone,

The 'climate control' on my car doesn't seem to be working properly (at
least it seems to me)

During the winter, the car heated up fine using the 'auto' setting. Heat
was distributed by the windscreen and footwell vents etc. However, now
that things are warming up in the UK, the car doesn't cool down on the
'auto' setting. I hear the fans starting up, but no cool air out of any
vents, unless I open the face vents and then I am blasted with freezing
air!!

If I manually set the controls to windscreen/footwell distribution, it
works OK, but the documentation definitely says that this should be
automatic. The dealership tell me there is nothing wrong and that this is
normal operation

Can anyone else with climate control (digital air con) please tell me how
their vehicle operates when cooling down?

Thanks, in advance

Howard
Ipswich, Suffolk, UK

 

Just tried mine (307SWw digital climate control), closed all face level
vents,turned temp down to 14,AC set to Auto, not much evidence of any
cooling effect, pressing the air distribution button to screen or
footwell, produced a noticable cooling effect, putting back to auto, and
it stopped. Open face level vents, plenty of cooling

So it does seem in auto that the cool air is only/mainly directed to the
face level vents

 

In

Don't think you are supposed to close all the face vent's for this reason.
I think my 206 is the same

 

yes, on my 307sw this is the same: you must keep all (or at least some of
them, I would assume) the face vents FULLY OPEN, and in this case the
aircond works the best way (efficient+silent)

 

Hi,
I believe in the users manual it specifically says to keep the vents open
when the air con is on. I find mine a bit too cold (from the vents)
sometimes so regularly just point it up to the ceiling and down to the
floor when I am using air con.

 

Thanks to everyone that replied. Looks as though my dealer was right after
all!

Regards

Howard