Air Con

[ocean1]

I know I posted something like this a while ago but the answers just confused me more. Can anyone with a post 99 car tell me whether the aircon is meant to blow into the footwell as well as the vent under the wheel and the one on the left of the dash.

Regards Ocean1

[bbt11]

Mine 2001 only blows from the 3 vents. pasenger side
by door facing pasenger. under steering wheel facing you and under the column facing legs.

[olly]

And to make things even more confusing, it depends who built your car ! Different people build the ventilation system in different ways, so even if a car was built on the same line & at the same time as yours, there is no guarantee that the ventilation systems will be the same....

Sorry for not being very helpful !

[ocean1]

bbt11 said:

Mine 2001 only blows from the 3 vents. pasenger side by door facing pasenger. under steering wheel facing you and under the column facing legs.

under the column? is there one here?

[bbt11]

ocean1 said:

bbt11 said: Mine 2001 only blows from the 3 vents. pasenger side by door facing pasenger. under steering wheel facing you and under the column facing legs. under the column? is there one here?

afraid so.

[ocean1]

Right, yes there is a vent under the steering column, but on my car this only responds to the hot air knob, despite the handbook saying it should produce cold.

[shpub]

Has the air pipe come adrift? Worth looking as this may explain why no cold air is there. Grovel in the footwell time.

[ocean1]

The pipe is connected to the footwell vent, if it wasnt it would not work with the hot fan would it? What happens at the other end of the pipe, does it connect to the hot and the cold supply in some way? I need to sort this as I have sweaty Leg Syndrome

[Richard Rawlins]

On my 1999 4.5, the three-way splitter under the dashboard had one of the exits plugged when I bought the car and cold air only came out of the steering wheel vent and the passenger side dashoard vent. And there was no hose connected to the driver's footwell vent!

One plug removal and a short length of hose later, and I can now get a cool right foot as well as a cool belly!

I've four hot air outlets on my car - passenger footwell, two on top of the dashboard and one length of hose underneath the steering column that isn't connected to a vent.

I'm seriously considering adding a cold vent in the passenger footwell by tapping into the hose that feeds the vent on that side of the dashboard, just to reduce the gale on my knee and belly when I'm trying to cool down the interior.....

If only I could find the air-con temperature adjuster in the driver's footwell that people have referred to in other posts!

[ocean1]

Richard Rawlins said:

On my 1999 4.5, the three-way splitter under the dashboard had one of the exits plugged when I bought the car and cold air only came out of the steering wheel vent and the passenger side dashoard vent. And there was no hose connected to the driver's footwell vent! One plug removal and a short length of hose later, and I can now get a cool right foot as well as a cool belly! I've four hot air outlets on my car - passenger footwell, two on top of the dashboard and one length of hose underneath the steering column that isn't connected to a vent. I'm seriously considering adding a cold vent in the passenger footwell by tapping into the hose that feeds the vent on that side of the dashboard, just to reduce the gale on my knee and belly when I'm trying to cool down the interior..... If only I could find the air-con temperature adjuster in the driver's footwell that people have referred to in other posts!

Good call Richard, I found a hose with an orange plug in it , when I took plug out I got cold air. I then fashioned a custom hose with a 90 degree bend and now I get cold air in the footwell