Switch under dash near right knee ??????

[Pete7]

I have a rotary switch or a potentiometer under the dash near my right knee. On the panel that covers the underside of the steering column.
It has no knob on it so not sure what it is or what it does.
Looked in the handbook and it's not shown as a control in the section that shows the various dashboard controls.

Anyone able to enlighten me please ?

Ta muchly

Pete

[Ireland]

It's a basic mechanical thermostat ... and clockwise = colder

[jackwibble]

Me thinks NEMASIS needs a spring break he has been getting very tetchy lately

[jackwibble]

I'm well aware it's not a "true lightweight" but it is deffo a 4.7 and I have seen your sterling contributions on here before and they are appreciated!

i have it down as 1402 silver stardust 4.5 thats it,on line 08/09/2000. Not Light Weight.
Pursyluv said:
I've just sold B12A6YB001402, which was sold to me as a 4.5LW - i presume it's not really a true LW as it weighed in at 1185kg with about 20L of fuel in it.

Just teasing as your last couple of posts were a bit fruity!
To be fair would be helpful if you visited more often.

[Tanguero]

nemasis said:

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM thats a new one, sensative my arse, the directive from the development department was and i quote from an internal directive, 'adjust fully clockwise and 1/4 turn anti clockwise' (Really sensative) 'then remove the adjustment knob so further adjustment is not acheived'!!!! what a load of ste! you can turn it with you're fingers and to being over sensative ,utter utter bks, but again on here, story becomes myth, myth becomes legend, and so it must be true!

Tanguero said:

That is the set point control for the air conditioning. Be cautious fiddling with it, it is very sensitive and if you turn it too much you will cause the evaporator in the drivers side wing cavity to ice up, which will mean your air con will only work for a few minutes, then take hours to thaw out.

Fair enough - inaccurate post deleted. Mine was very sensitive and iced the evaporator up when over adjusted, but who am I to argue based on mere personal experience.

Edited by Tanguero on Friday 4th April 22:39

[Luckyone]

Our 98 (made in late 97) 4.5 "GT" had A/C fitted. I was sure the sales brochure at the time said it was standard on all 4.5s & an option in 4.2s? I think it says that in the manual that came with the car too.

Ours had a new front end very early in its life that didn’t show up in any HPI checks when we got it at just over two years old. The AC didn’t work so we took it to a very well respected indy, he found the pipes had been crushed & had to replace a lot of the system. He told me not to fiddle with it as it was set & over adjusting would cause it to ice up. He didn’t go into detail of the setting up though...

[Pete7]

Cheers peeps, at least I know what it is now.

Air con works just fine and so I think I will leave it just as it is :-)



Pete

Edited by Pete7 on Saturday 5th April 15:54

[Tarmacshredder]

My April 1997 also has it fitted, a label saying set at factory do not adjust would have been a good idea though as this is a question I and others have asked in the past.