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Date:         Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:27:49 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: A/C? Pfui! Need a good fan
Comments: To: "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <4C391F0B.8060903@gmail.com>
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At 09:31 PM 7/10/2010 Saturday, Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" wrote: >Precisely where does the air come from that blows on your face? Mark >tells us that the fan does not move air through the dash end vents until >the 87 model year.

Jumping in ahead here, as there's quite a bit of unread thread left...

Mark has has a very slight brain fart. The blower drives the dash vents; however some may-he-be-cursed-forever prior to '89 changed things so that those vents are temperature controlled instead of straight from the outside. Reduced the volume some as well, p'raps my heater core is clogged with dust.

Regardless, to get a good blast through those dash vents, everything else has to be shut off, which means left for the defrost lever and right for the floor air and rear air levers. Curiously enough, by the way, those levers all work exactly the way it says they do in the user's manual for the van. Folks who think otherwise should read slower. Not only that, they work the way the face-plate symbology shows.

VW apparently envisaged a situation where a blinding ice storm came from nowhere and required the driver to achieve sudden maximum defrost with one wild rightward sweep of his arm...to pay for that they went against decades or centuries of tradition that Right is More for control levers. The poor manual writers did the best they could with the situation.

Yours, David


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