Probably being thick here but cannot get my head around the Recirculated air mode button.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but when pressed twice and the light comes on, does it draw the air from outside until it detects pollutants then switch to reccurculating the air, then once the pollutants are no long detected goes back to normal mode.

I cannot understnad the manual on this subject

Thanks in advance

No.

Recirculate means exactly that; it recirculates the air inside the car.

If you want the "anti-pollutant" then you need to light the "AUTO" button, and when that senses a pollutant it goes in to recirculate mode.

Graham, have you actually tried pushing the recirc. button over and over. It has three settings... What does the second one do then?

I think it may be the same set up as my FL Octavia Vrs but my Recirc button has the letter " A " on it

still none the wiser

So what are the settings of the recirc button.

I thought it was

First Press - Air recirculated

Second Press Light comes on - Auto Recirculate, draws air from outside but switches to recirculate when polluants detected.

Third press - Recirulate off

Is this correct

More confused than ever now

That is how I believe it works, yes.

Right!

It depends what is fitted to your car.

Standard, Climatic or Climatronic?

So Rich, I presume you have Climatronic?

If so, page 103 et seq.

Button 5 is dealt with in the right hand column on p104 and it appears I was wrong, so apologies.

So

Left light on, air recirculates.

Right side light on, anti-smelly on.

Clever stuff. Didn't know the newer systems had this automatic pollutant detection thingamy.

Phil

Clever stuff. Didn't know the newer systems had this automatic pollutant detection thingamy.

Phil

And here in farm-ridden Wales it comes on to pollution-detection-recirculate-or the-stink-will-get-you-and-stick-to-your-clothes-and-inside-your-nose setting constantly.

Fortunately

Yes; I live in Wales too, on a farm... BUT, with the weather we have been having, I have to turn it off/turn on the air conditioning or the car steams up. Guess whether or not it is raining as I type.

Good Lord. How did you know?

I don't follow that.

If you have it on the "anti-smelly" setting then it will only recirculate when it senses a pollutant, and as that should only be for a short time I can't see how the air con makes the car mist up. From my experience the opposite is the case.

To cool the car down quickly I will often put the temp to "MIN" then put the air con on, and recirculate. It brings the temperature down very quickly. In fact it is what Vauxhall actually say to do in their handbooks.

In the winter I will also put the air con on with high temps to dry out condensation.

You are, of course, right; but that is what I thought I had written?

I tried it on an interesting journey home tonight, what with driving at 20 mph up the A49 towards Craven Arms, because the wipers wouldn't cope, then paddling most of the way from there to Kerry.

No nasty smells from the cars in front.

No misted up windows.

Oh and I've got what looks like a clean car!

And I read your posting as you turned off the recirculate completely, whereas I had the right hand light on, having pressed it twice.

Yes; I live in Wales too, on a farm... BUT, with the weather we have been having, I have to turn it off/turn on the air conditioning or the car steams up. Guess whether or not it is raining as I type.

Good Lord. How did you know?

We have pongier farms down here!!!

It is a fundamental principle of user interface design that the purpose of a control should be immediately and intuitively obvious to anyone who is about to use it, because of its form or labelling or some other visible attribute.

Several of the Yeti's minor controls fail this test miserably. The 'Auto' control, which Graham confused with the recirc control, is an even clearer fail: there is no way at all to know, from the control itself, which of its settings is which or how they differ. In fact the whole of this discussion would never have taken place if the controls themselves were as they ought to be.

Evidently the Yeti's designers were not made to read this classic work: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0465067107/ . It changes the way people see things for ever more. Yet although it is quite an old book now, its principles are still widely ignored, and our homes and cars are full of objects that, like the coffee pot on the book cover, just mess up in some little way or other. The sad aspect is that it usually costs no more to do it right; all its needs is the right awareness and enough thought.

Edited 13 July, 201213 yr by r999