My Wife has had her Kamiq for a few months now. She loves it, it’s a 1.5TSI DSG SE.

 

She’d loves it, but she’d love climate, can it be retrofitted by upgrading the control panel?

Not something I've done or have direct experience of.

 

At a guess, you'll need:

- a replacement control panel

- possibly a new facia

- a wiring kit and sensors like this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001212098968.html

 

It'll the also need coding and some basic settings doing.

If you could the price for upgrade you might as well have bought the SEL

I was saying to my son about the Monte Carlo we just bought not having Climate.  But my son is much too wise, his comment was “Dad when did you ever have a different temperature on one side of the car to the other” ?   Aahhhh he got me there !

Edited 3 February, 20215 yr by Northam

12 minutes ago, Northam said:

I was saying to my son about the Monte Carlo we just bought not having Climate.  But my son is much too wise, his comment was “Dad when did you ever have a different temperature on one side of the car to the other” ?   Aahhhh he got me there !

 

Climate control does not mean it's dual zone climate control...

 

You can get:

- manual AC just has blue to red for colder/hotter with no temperature control

- single zone climate control lets you set a temperature and flaps adjust to hit that temperature

- dual zone climate control has different temperatures for the driver and passengers

- tri zone climate control has  different temperatures for the driver, front passenger and rear passengers

 

In this case, I believe the OP wants to change from manual AC to single zone climate. That will let them set a temperature and leave the car to figure it out

 

8 hours ago, skoda1982 said:

If you could the price for upgrade you might as well have bought the SEL

 

With used parts, it's probably only £100-150 at a guess. Certainly much cheaper than trading their SE in for an SEL.

12 minutes ago, langers2k said:

 

Climate control does not mean it's dual zone climate control...

 

You can get:

- manual AC just has blue to red for colder/hotter with no temperature control

- single zone climate control lets you set a temperature and flaps adjust to hit that temperature

- dual zone climate control has different temperatures for the driver and passengers

- tri zone climate control has  different temperatures for the driver, front passenger and rear passengers

 

In this case, I believe the OP wants to change from manual AC to single zone climate. That will let them set a temperature and leave the car to figure it out

 

 

With used parts, it's probably only £100-150 at a guess. Certainly much cheaper than trading their SE in for an SEL.

 
Oh I see, never really been something I’ve been too worried about.  Dual zone in the Pug 308cc, but never used it for cold air, if I needed cold air then the roof went down.  Have dual in the Octavia, but that’s the wife’s car and I rarely go in that.

 

Thanks for the explanation by the way, much better understanding now.

Edited 3 February, 20215 yr by Northam

35 minutes ago, langers2k said:

 

Climate control does not mean it's dual zone climate control...

 

You can get:

- manual AC just has blue to red for colder/hotter with no temperature control

- single zone climate control lets you set a temperature and flaps adjust to hit that temperature

- dual zone climate control has different temperatures for the driver and passengers

- tri zone climate control has  different temperatures for the driver, front passenger and rear passengers

 

In this case, I believe the OP wants to change from manual AC to single zone climate. That will let them set a temperature and leave the car to figure it out

 

 

With used parts, it's probably only £100-150 at a guess. Certainly much cheaper than trading their SE in for an SEL.

That’s it.

 

It’s only a bit of a pipe dream really, but I heard on some Fords and Toyotas the whole Climate system is built into the controller and all systems use the same heater box /AC unit. Upgrading it merely a case of buying the dash unit.

 

She wants heated seats next 😉

3 minutes ago, Pjay777 said:

That’s it.

 

It’s only a bit of a pipe dream really, but I heard on some Fords and Toyotas the whole Climate system is built into the controller and all systems use the same heater box /AC unit. Upgrading it merely a case of buying the dash unit.

 

She wants heated seats next 😉

I believe a lot of cars now have the same wiring looms so the electrics for most things are there.  Just the need for parts, sensors and connecting up to programme the car.  Doesn’t sound much but as we know it ain’t cheap.  Heated seats at nice though.

47 minutes ago, Northam said:

a lot of cars now have the same wiring looms so the electrics for most things are there.

 

Not Skodas/VW group cars in my experience. You barely get a spare cm of wire, let alone wires for things that aren't there

2 minutes ago, Wino said:

 

Not Skodas/VW group cars in my experience. You barely get a spare cm of wire, let alone wires for things that aren't there

I know on our old Zafira it was.  I put a 12v supply in the boot.  There was a knock out circle, behind it a wire, just a case of connecting up, pushing socket in the hole and away you go.  Can’t remember though if I had to put a fuse in the fuse box, that part escapes my memory.