I have had my car for almost a year and it's been brilliant. Almost perfect but a few things need to be checked at the next service.

 

The air con is set at 20c auto and I just leave it alone. One thing I have noticed is that it mists the front windscreen from time to time. This happens more when I slow down to a junction . The auto system seems to turn off the AC and then the mist returns. I then need to demist the screen and it's ok for about an hour then returns. I wonder if there is something that reads the humidity and playing up?

 

I have also noticed that if I manually turn the fan speed the orange lights light up in order - for example , 1, 2, 3, 4(orange lights go off) then back on for 5,6,7 as you turn it up. It seems to be random which orange light goes off. Is this normal as it seems to work but very odd?

 

The other thing the front electric window - driver side. For a few weeks, when I closed the window it would close then return down about a quarter . I would need to this three times before it would close. Now the auto doesn't work but it closes first time. The eco close window sign comes on the maxidot when the window is closed and travelling around 50mph +.

 

Third time to ask the garage to fix the auto headlamp wash retract  when it goes in for the service. One goes in and the other stays out.

 

Apart from the above it has been one of the best cars to drive and own for years.

 

 

Fan speed lights are completely normal, been discussed many times on here. The reason one of the lights doesn't illuminate is that that is the fan speed the system wants to set in AUTO.

AC doesn't run when the  auto start/stop activates

Thought when the humidity sensor in the rear view mirror (on 2 zone climate cars) detected risk of misting that it would override the stop start and restart the car. I have once seen on my car Stop Start disabled to prevent misting so it definitely does do something.

On non climate cars I guess it wouldn't of course as it doesn't have the sensor.

My window kept going back down. The dealer disconnected it for a while and then reset the system and so far it cured it.

The steaming up was something I noticed was getting really bad on my car and I was running the headed front windscreen alot.  What has almost completely solved it for me was cleaning it, not that it looked dirty at all.

 

I've read (here I think) that it's something to do with the plastics in new cars giving off various fumes as they heat up in the sun and it'll get better but I find after using water and e-cloths (glass cleaning cloths) about once every few weeks the car barely steams up at all even with four people and two of them vaping.

+1 for what Gullyg said, the film which appears from the dashboard plastics requires me to clean the windscreen every week or so also.

 

With auto-AC there should be a humidity sensor & even when Stop/Start is active, the climate system can restart the engine when it detects the increased humidity or the temperature deviates away from the desired setpoint.

 

 

For the passenger window, have you tried holding the switch for 5s when the window reaches the top.

This is the proceedure to reset the closed position.

If it still detects that its "open" then its probably a job for the dealer.

Edited 9 September, 201411 yr by Gabbo

Fan speed lights are completely normal, been discussed many times on here. The reason one of the lights doesn't illuminate is that that is the fan speed the system wants to set in AUTO.

 

 my fan speed dial lights up all the time, even in auto

I wonder why .....

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