Got my 07 vRS serviced last week and noticed after no air coming from front centre vents, even with blower on max. The air comes out the side vents as usual, but instead of coming out the front vents, it now comes out near the wind shield. Can't explain it. It used always come out the front centre vents and you had to select the windscreen button to get it to come out near the windscreen. I can of course force air out the front centre vents by turning on the front air direction button. But this won't help me when we get warm weather as selecting this button automatically disables the compressor, so no climate control from centre vents is another issue. I am hoping the garage reset something during my service and it's an easy fix. I sure hope they didn't screw something up fitting a new oil level sensor (it neve worked from day 1). Interestingly my low windscreenwasher light never worked either and they had to reset something on the ecu to get it working properly.

Firstly, do you have dual zone climatronic?

Secondly, what mode is it in when you notice something is not right?

AFAIK nothing should disable the compressor apart from low ambient temperature, I can poke any button on the climatronic button (apart from ECON - obviously!) and the compressor will stay on.

I can only get air from the front central vents when I select airflow to the face, other than that it never comes out from there.

They might have had the battery off when working on the car and the climatronic unit may have 'lost' the positions of the various airflow flaps behind the dash. From memory I believe you can excercise and reset the air flaps with VCDS/VAS to ensure they are in the home position to start off with.

Thanks for the useful information mate.

Yes it's dual zone climatronic. Up until now, air ALWAYS came out of the front centre flaps and side flaps whether using ECON on or off, AUTO on or off, or front air position button pressed. All the fan position buttons still work as expected and air still comes out the front centre flaps if you select the font air position button (but the air is not chilled). However when ECON or AUTO is on or off air only comes out the sideflaps, and you can hear the air rumbling away behind the front centre flaps. I previously mistook this for air coming out by the windscreen. The garage believe that a flap inside the front centre unit is just staying closed. Interestingly if you select the LOW setting from either of the temperature dials or select the front air position button, then the air DOES come out the front centre flaps.

I explained to garage everything was fine before service. Had it done last Monday. Nothing showing up on diagnostic report. Then went in again on Wedneday to have new oil level sensor fitted and decided to get new air filter fitted too. Garage say nothing showed up on diagnostics then either and they had it a good 2 hours trying to clear out the error mesaage for the faulty oil level sensor. I saw no written report this time but I was there waiting for the car and they were definitley working on it, so I have to take their word on this.

Anyway just back from garage and diagnostic this morning shows the following 3 events and doing a basic setting would not clear these events :

00716 000

Recirculation Flap Motor -V113-

no display

01272 -000

Central Air Flap Motor

no display

01810 000

Actuator for temperature flap right

no display

In relation to above, head mechanic, advises dash will have to come out to take a closer look. Until then they won't know if it's a motor or motors which needs replacing or something simple like a ground wire. As the car is only 3 years and 2 months old and has only 24.5k miles on it, they are going to ask Skoda to see if they can foot some of the bill. Car is going in tommorrow for as long as it takes.

I'm very dissapointed by this whole experience. I now have to worry the dashboard gets damaged/scratched and goes back on with rattles. Car has been pristine up until now.

Hopefully someone out there has experienced this issue and has some advice for me.

Thanks

Edited 9 March, 201016 yr by Flanno

Does it work with the Recirc button pressed? Mine was suffering similar problems but always righted itself after a few days/weeks. Intermittant problems are the most annoying.

Try pressing the recirc button and see if it makes any difference.

Sorry to hear about that, nothing worse than a 'dash out' job just out of warranty

Does not help with the change in your ventilation, but:-

B5-5 Passat centre vents only opened in automatic when it was very hot outside.

Ditto recent Hyundai Coupe and current Octavia FL.

Will try recirc button later. Thanks.

What's weird about this whole thing is it was perfect up until last Wedneday. Air has always come out the front vents by default. Suddenly nothing.

Will update on what happens this week. Car goes into garage tommorrow and they are giving me a free loaner as usual. Now I have to russle up some cash.

I tried mine last night and it seems to be functioning correctly at the moment.

Here is what I found:

Auto and or Econ: No air from centre (during 5 min test)

Econ with Face vent selected - fan speed medium: Some/Little air from centre

Econ with Face vent selected - fan speed High: Some air from centre

Temp Selector - LO: Fan high speed and LOTS of air from centre

Temp Selector - HI: Fan high speed and LOTS of air from centre

I think max air is emitted from centre when Climatronic wants to make quick corrections to maintain selected Temp.

HTH

I agree, my FL Elegance does the same.

Looked at the on line FL manual and it shows that the grille area across the dash top producing the demisting of the windscreen plus a non drafty ventilation effect for the cabin, out of different nozzles.Could not find a mention of the function of the middle two vents.

So, it would seem there is a deliberate intention not to blast air out of the centre two vents in the automatic mode anyway.

As I said earlier, my previous two cars have also been like this.