Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Turn the heat



The four levers from top to bottom are:

  1. The windscreen air flow. Left is closed, right is open. (There's a little windshield symbol attempting to depict this.)

  2. The air temperature. Left is no heat, right is maximum heat.

  3. The footwell air flow. Left is open, right is closed. (There's a little arrow pointing down, implying air down there)

  4. The rear ceiling air flow. Left is open, right is closed. Rear ceiling air is not heated. (Again, there's a little picture trying to convey this.)

The dash air flow is controlled directly on each dash vent. Up is closed, down is open. Dash air is NOT heated in '87 & older vans. Dash air can be heated (via the 2nd lever) on '88 & newer vans. (Some late 87 vans had the dash heat.)

The door 'vents' are air exit vents that allow air to exit the van when opened. Forward is open, rearward position is closed. (This applies only to '87 & older vans. '88 & newer have air exits at the back end of the rear-side windows that are always open)

Colors are used in the vent symbols as follows: Blue is cold. Red is hot. White is variable from cold to hot. Thus the rear ceiling vent symbol is blue, depicting that only cold air is available there.

All of these air vent controls operate independently except that closing one air outlet will naturally cause more air to flow from the open vents.

Note that none of the levers control as an 'OR' function like: left for dash air -OR- right for foot air. They are all just simple open & close of one device only.

There are no 'recirculate' controls. If you want air flow, it must come in from outside the van. If you want NO air flow, just close each vent independently.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow! is it true a vw beetle literally is amfibious and just floats on water and away you go? i saw that on a film once, I'm sure but I'm not sure it was TRUE...

well I do a blog too

I'm at gledwood2.blogspot.

You're most welcome to drop by. It is very different to yours though.

Take care now & all the best

Gledwood

Business-Art said...

Cool! hehe :->

TagBagger said...

How to fix it seems to be an important skill with many Volkswagens...

Di said...

That is so totally cool! Funny how you forget what things used to look like. You know, before you could give each freaking person a different temp!

Unknown said...

I'm looking to take a combi van from the US right the way through central america. Are they easy to fix? I imagine I'll be breaking down a bit.

Nathan said...

Interesting old school air control unit.

stickboy20on20 said...

WOW

Children with out voices said...

Cool blog!

Anonymous said...

Hi there! You must be a real wiz! "Blue" for cold and "Red" for heat! Who would have thought up that one. BTW, I have put a link to your blog on mine, as I am always looking for interesting stuff, and YOU are IT! And your definition for "ATV"...inspired! Here is my blog. It is a little naughty and not very nice.

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Michele Boselli said...

ciao

Cathy D. said...

I like the old beetles they are cool.