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      12-29-2009, 03:22 AM   #1
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Climate feature

I read the manual on this one but it doesnt seem to explain the purpose of the Climate function which has a timer associated with it? Unless i missed it.

If you go into the settings, therers an option to activate the climate control - how does it know what climate temp i want etc or is there a different purpose for this?

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      12-29-2009, 04:33 AM   #2
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Purpose is to ventilate the car at the time set. Basically run the fans (no a/c) for up to 30 minutes / some temp limit to clear the car of (hot) air.

Something that I use fairly frequently during the summer days to cool the car down for 10 minutes or so before leaving work. Everyone else is jumping into a red hot car, whereas mine has already cooled down somewhat.
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      12-29-2009, 05:28 AM   #3
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I read about this in the manual yesterday actually, seems like a good function.

I'd be worried about using it though as I can see my self coming back from holiday after leaving the car on the drive to find the battery flat!

Even not using the car for 1 day would worry me because the manual says you should only run the function once per drive of the car.

mjh93sa, have you ever had problems with it like that?
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It only works once at a time.

You have to re-activate it every day that you want it to operate.

i.e every morning you need to tick the box for it to work at the next time setting.
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No problems. As doughboy says the only problem is remembering to set it everyday.
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Ah, Brilliant! Will set that up then.

So, this can generate heat to get rid of ice for example?
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No, it only vents the air. It will only vent the air, to rid the hot air from your car. No fans are activated, nothing is turned on.
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No heating, it just uses the ventilation fan to blow ambient air through the car provided that the temperature is above 15 degC.
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