oldstan

Ta for that. So, in effect, you're saying it would need to go back to the main dealer rather than take it to the independant I mentioned ? I don't have access to anything specific, nor do I have the experience/knowledge to use it even if I did. Or are you thinking it needs to go to an air con specialist? - or maybe a vehicle electrics specialist?

If it helps to narrow it down - I would say that the problem affects both sides (passenger and driver) rather than being one side only.

Very much obliged for that. It rather accords with what the lad at my independant garage said insofar as he' need to plug his computer in to see if he could find the problem. When he says that do we assume it's his standard diagnostic tool that he would use, rather than a VAG specific instument? Initially it sounded a bit vague and I wasn't sure if he was just giving me a non-comittal answer ... he didn't actually sound all that enthusiastic about the whole affair.

Again I say thanks to the above - really helpful. Do we know where the sensor is though?

Does this tell us if I have plain, manual air con, or a posher, automatic aircon?

Yes, it is.

Both the above really useful. I'm assuming I have Climatronic simply because the screen says so. however I did think that Climatronic was full, automatic air con. My screen does say Climatronic but I rather thought I had plain old manual air con. It's only an SE model. ----------- Scotwall - any idea where that air sensor is physically located? I could live with £26 plus and hours labour but can't face someone pulling the dash out. I'd be frightened it would squeak or rattle and half the controls wold stop working (maybe that's a bit pessimistic?)

That sounds sensible. I don't know where it is either but presumably it's within/behind the switchgear.

Ta, I'll put it on there now and if it contravenes any rules I imagine a Mod will let me know.

Noticed it last winter but ignored it ... but it's still doing it ... when you adjust the temperature dial from cold to hot it used to gradually and evenly increase the temperature of the air coming from the vents (both the cabin vents and the face level vents. But now, as you turn the dial round to increase the temperature it doesn't get properly warm until you're well into the HOT zone ... far more so than it used to when it was working correctly. For example, when it indicates, say, 22 degrees on the display it's still blowing virtually cold - it needs to be turned up higher before you get a respectable amount of heat . Is this something obvious that people have seen before, or does it mean a strip down and replacement parts? The car is now 9 years old. The coolant level is OK and my local independant was a bit vague and just said he'd have to hook it up to his computer and didn't hazard any guesses re. what it could be but said if it was the matrix it would be a major job. At this age I start to wonder if it's a viable proposition to spend many hundreds of pounds on it. Ta.

Is it possible to open this to one of the other, more general, forums? Maybe something like "Handy Topics and Guides"?

Update to above. Carried our the procedure - no different. It only really gets hot if the temp dial is set to max. Anything less results in tepid or cool air. Just showed it to my local independant and he said they'd have to connect a computer to it and he didn't hazard a guess as to to what it could be. He did say if it was the heater matrix it would take "hours and hours". Don't think I fancy that.

Ah - certainly not familiar with that - wouldn't have known about it if you'd not mentioned it. Will give it a go. Ta. No water leaks or anything obviously amiss.

Noticed it last winter but ignored it ... but it's still doing it ... when you adjust the temperature dial from cold to hot it used to gradually and evenly increase the temperature of the air coming from the vents (both the cabin vents and the face level vents. But now, as you turn the dial round to increase the temperature it doesn't get properly warm until you're well into the HOT zone ... far more so than it used to when it was working correctly. For example, when it indicates, say, 22 degrees on the display it's still blowing virtually cold - it needs to be turned up higher before you get a respectable amount of heat . Is this something obvious that people have seen before, or does it mean a strip down and replacement parts? The car is now 9 years old. Ta.

Point taken re. the Austin Atlantic - I vaguely recall that when I got home after seeing the Tatra I was drawn to thinking the same - but - the back half of the Tatra is totally unforgettable ... once seen, never to be mistaken for the Austin. I can clearly remember exactly remember where I saw it - it was in Loughton High Road in Essex and was heading away from Woodford, towards Epping and I kept wondering who would have been driving such a car, for it really, really is a rare thing to spot on the public road. It was silver. How I wish I could have looked around it and, perhaps, gained an insight as to who the owner might have been. It surely must have been a gentleman of substance coz they're worth a fortune.

I refuse to be drawn into the irrefutable inadvisability of having one's ear(s) pierced at the age of 60 with the inevitable consequence of adorning one's lughole(s) with items of debatably distatsteful and, possibly, cheap jewellery. 🤯 Re. my age ... no, I fear I'm well and truly on the home straight. Any semblence of middle agedness is well and truly gone and (due to advancing senility) forgotten. The amazing thing is I don't actually look like your average 69 year old, with most of my hair still extant and not all of it grey ... however my mental advancement into the territory of "miserable old bugger" is fully developed. Admittedly it still needs a bit more perfecting and refining but I consider my argumentative, negative and disapproving disposition to be coming on nicely. 😡 Oh, and the make of the car .... I would put my hand on heart and say I was 99.9% certain I saw a Tatra 87 that day all those years ago. Hence me saying it's highly unlikely I'll ever see another. Had I not been going the opposite direction and had it been possible to have a closer look then I would surely have done so. I think the expression goes something like "as rare as rocking horse s***t".

Maybe if I owned one of these and saw another coming the other way it's possible i might raise the forefinger an inch or so .... but, to another Yeti, no, I'm afraid not. Far too common a sight. And, to be honest, the thought of playing such games as "guesss the colour of the next Yeti" does sound a tiny bit childish. But then, at 69, I'm not a child, so maybe that's not entirely unexpected. (as it happens I did spot an example of the car pictured below on the road in Essex about 20 years ago and confess it took me a while to identify it. I suspect I might not see another in the time I have left)

OK, in view of the dearth of response to my observation above I concede it clearly wasn't a good idea to mention it. Can't get it right all the time, eh? Mind you, I did mention the Kia Niro on here some time ago and the volume of replies didn't break any records BUT one of our esteemed members, who wasn't too familiar with it at the time, did eventually go and look at one and finished up buying one - and is apparently quite happy with it.

If a Puma is a possible consideration for some - then maybe the forthcoming Yaris Cross would be too? The Puma is 1537 high and the Toyota is 1560 high, which makes the Toyota 23 mm higher (about three quarters of an inch). The Puma is 4207 long and the Toyota is 4180 long, which makes the Toyota 27mm shorter. The Puma is 1805 wide and the Toyota is 1765 wide, which makes the Toyota 40mm narrower (about an inch and a half). The Yeti is 1691 high by 4223 long by 1793 wide. The Toyota gets a 5 year warranty instead of three years - and it's a Toyota, which, for some makes it appealing on the reliability front.

Genuine question: What causes something like that?