Edweird wrote:
That's reminded me. I need to sort out my vent system. The heater works, but the vents won't point at the screen properly. I move the slider all the way across to the screen, and crank the fan up to full and JUST barely get some air on the screen, and most of it comes out of the footwell vents. I'm guessing the cables that move the vents thing are set slightly wrong or something.
I've already fixed the temperature one, because the cable had com out of the slider/handle thing.
All's fair in love and war(-by-four)
I don't know if the heater unit is the same in the 410 (be right back going to look at your ed's wagon thread)
Right then... It looks similar enough to my samaurai's. the cable from the heater controls pulls a cable which runs down into the drivers foot well. As the selector moves, the cable pulls a flap in the heater unit which directs the hot air flow to the different vents
-If you get your head in the foot well you can see how it works (especially if you fiddle with the lever at the same time)
I imagine your cable outter has moved in its clamp so when you are putting it on screen the flap doesn't move fully and the hot air escapes out of the center 'foot' vents. if you reach under the dash by the heater matrix you can feel where the cable outter is held, if you slide the cable outter up or down in the clamp, it alters what position the flap is in (when the levers in a position)
If I was you I'd put the control lever to 'screen' then slide the cable outter up (or down) in the clamp until you can see the flap (or damper if you want to be technical!) move to the end of its movement,
ta da, fixed
*edit* I thought I'd ad you can see part of the flap mechanism in the heater vents by the gear stick, so you can see through the grill when its at the end of its movement, I think the flap wants to be 'up' when you have it on screen as the hot air runs down to the flaps and then back up to the vents by the windscreen
