On Wed, 3 May 2006 23:10:36 -0700 Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If that's the case, it's TOTALLY different from my '82 240D. The fan
switch controls just the fan. There are two sliders just below the
dash vent that control the air to the defrosters and floor vents.
We're talking
I have a three-dial jobbie, too, as the attached photograph shows.
It has two sliding levers for the vents and a temperature wheel for
controlling the A/C.
I've seen that one before in the junkyards. Looks like the two
sliding levers' actions are combined in my car, and my mechanical
AC
Funny: The wife and I have become real users of the outside air shutoff
feature (talking about her Honda CRV). We so dislike cigarette smoke (and it
seems that her CRV has a more pronounced tendency to inhale outside fumes)
that when someone in the car infront of us is smoking, or someone
On Sat, 6 May 2006 00:22:02 -0700 Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a three-dial jobbie, too, as the attached photograph shows.
It has two sliding levers for the vents and a temperature wheel for
controlling the A/C.
I've seen that one before in the junkyards. Looks like the
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The switch that controls the fan speed (non ACC car) seems to be messed
up -
in that it is very hard to rotate it down to the fan-off dot
Jiminy Crickets! 3 years with my '83 240D and I had no idea about that...
You learn something new every day.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 15:17:24 -0700
From: Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Heat/AC Fan speed switch
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Jiminy Crickets! 3 years with my '83 240D and I had no idea about that...
You learn something new every day.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 15:17:24 -0700
From: Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Heat/AC Fan speed switch
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Jiminy Crickets! 3 years with my '83 240D and I had no idea about
that...
I do so hate to say it, but I believe this is in TFM. The one in the
glovebox that nobody (especially my wife) ever reads...
-- Jim
On Wed, 3 May 2006 19:08:07 -0500 Zoltan Finks
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So the dial in question not only controls an electric switch, but it
also manually controls a linkage that physically shuts a flap?
Ingenious.
Brian
83 240D
That's not the fan-off position, that's the vent-off
If that's the case, it's TOTALLY different from my '82 240D. The fan
switch controls just the fan. There are two sliders just below the dash
vent that control the air to the defrosters and floor vents.
We're talking about the three-dial jobs. Like this:
Actually, mine has the two sliders too, Craig. It took me a while to
understand the functions of everything by just reading TFM. But it makes
easy sense once I fooled with it. I like how the knobs on these sliders have
either an up notch or a down notch for your fingers to feel in the dark. So
Jim, if that pic is of an '83 240D, then that's interesting, as it's
'79.
to) and sure enough, it turns off the fan. There does not seem to be a
position 90 degrees from this fan-off position at anything happens
It's subtle.
Question is: I see in your pic that you also have the fresh air
The switch that controls the fan speed (non ACC car) seems to be messed up -
in that it is very hard to rotate it down to the fan-off dot (you know,
that dot at the bottom of the range).
Not sure why they put the off dot way at the bottom - away from the I, II,
and III positions. But I'm sure it
The switch that controls the fan speed (non ACC car) seems to be
messed up -
in that it is very hard to rotate it down to the fan-off dot (you
know,
that dot at the bottom of the range).
That's not the fan-off position, that's the vent-off position. (If
yours is like mine with a 180-degree
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