Date:         Wed, 9 May 2001 16:41:37 -0700
Reply-To:     "David W. Palmerston" <DPalmerston@Heli-Cal.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "David W. Palmerston" <DPalmerston@Heli-Cal.com>
Subject:      Re: fresh air/heat sliders (EASY WAY TO KNOW)
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Yes, I think so, except in mine where the temperature slider got switched so
that blue is red hot and the red is the coolest that it gets - try to
explain that to the mechanic after they tried all day to get the air out of
the coolant system by "opening" the heater - and it just wouldn't get even
warm!!!

What an amazing machine!

David W Palmerston
88 Wolfsburg - "Deep Blue"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Pollard [mailto:poll7356@uidaho.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:22 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: fresh air/heat sliders (EASY WAY TO KNOW)
>
>
> wait a second- doesn't the little owners manual say to put
> the top two to the right, next to the Left and the bottom to
> the right?? R R L R -m
>
>
> Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
> Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
> University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu
>
> On Wed, 9 May 2001, Karl Wolz wrote:
>
> > Uh, sorry, but  .  .  .
> >
> > All levers to the right defrosts your windshield.  Remember that
> > safety is of paramount concern, and pushing them all to the
> right is
> > the easiest thing to do.  If you want maximum heat, you
> gotta do a zig
> > zag: left, right, left, right.
> >
> > Karl Wolz
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Shane" <shane_steve@hotmail.com>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: fresh air/heat sliders (EASY WAY TO KNOW)
> >
> >
> > > <SNIP>
> > > Subject: Re: fresh air/heat sliders
> > >
> > > The European manufacturers never could figure out car ventilation
> > > systems, and only recently are they getting better.  I think they
> > > just figured you could open the windows.  Invariably they
> are poorly
> > > thought out and confusing.  The Vanagon, however, wins
> the prize for
> > > the most obtuse controls and documentation I've ever encountered.
> > > <SNIP>
> > >
> > > Oh come now!!!! They are easy to figure out. Just memorize this
> > > little rhyme.
> > >
> > > The top lever defrosts your feet, with fresh air from below, how
> > > neat! The next lever controls the fan, far away in someone else's
> > > van. The red knob blends with the blue, the air the blows at your
> > > shoe. The blue knob closes the bend, that defrosts the crossover
> > > blend. The bottom knob cools your right foot, unless it's already
> > > cooked. The fresh air return can be found, by rolling your right
> > > window down. And the lever off to the left, controls the
> NOISE from
> > > all that are left. So remember, when the controls have
> you beat...
> > > Be glad you have a Boxer WITH HEAT!
> > >
> > > Seriously folks, it may as well be common knowledge that the R&D
> > department
> > > that made the Vanagon air controls was mostly made up of
> disgruntled
> > > AIR COOLED ex-engineers. And they figured if they couldn't have
> > > heat, then the WasserBoxers didn't deserve them either. (It's a
> > > deeply routed Germanic thing, all started by some ex-monk
> in Munich
> > > I believe) Anyway when in doubt, all knobs to the right
> warms your
> > > van... all knobs to the left does
> >
> > > something else!
> > >
> > > A B C ya!
> > > - Steve (formerly of Columbus) now in No.CAL.
> > >
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