Driving heater problem

[Little owl1963]

Can I ask a favour of those who have a digital thermometer and do not have climatronic option, I would like to know what temperature the hot air exiting the centre dash vent on your Cali is once the van is fully up to running temperature (90 deg C oil) and temp setting is at 22 deg, knob vertical, VW are telling me 27 - 28 deg C is normal.

Please clarify interpretation, you say set dial at 22degrees , why would 28 degrees be normal? Should it not be 22 as set at gauge ??

 

[Andy C Berks.]

Please clarify interpretation, you say set dial at 22degrees , why would 28 degrees be normal? Should it not be 22 as set at gauge ??

When you set the dial to 22 degrees, that is what you are asking the temperature in that zone of the cabin to be maintained at. So it would stand to reason that the air coming out the vent needs to be higher than that to heat up the air in the cabin. Also it’s a big cabin when compared to a car so the heater will take longer and have to work harder to maintain temperature, but as I said in my post on the other thread we have never had an issue with ours working well so it does sound like you may have a problem.

P.s. the diesel heater I referred to in that other comment is the camping heater that you can use to pre-heat the cabin before a journey with one click on the key fob

 

[2cvhound]

I am having similar problems - long run last night 5 hours, mostly motorway about 6degrees outside: The only way to warm the cabin was to go to max which very quickly became too hot from screen/dash/floor but turning the basic temp control down just 2 clicks to half past 4 on dial (24 degrees at a guess) resulted in cold air. I couldn't get a comfortable medium on the whole journey!

 

[sbmcd]

I am having similar problems - long run last night 5 hours, mostly motorway about 6degrees outside: The only way to warm the cabin was to go to max which very quickly became too hot from screen/dash/floor but turning the basic temp control down just 2 clicks to half past 4 on dial (24 degrees at a guess) resulted in cold air. I couldn't get a comfortable medium on the whole journey!

When I had issues on my T5.1 with no climatic control used to have the best control at 75% (3 o'clock) in the hot direction before the cab was warm. I was told to turn the hot / cold knob to its limits a couple of time to reset the hot / cold control flap servo, worth a try.

 

[direwolf]

There seem to be many different fuse locations can anyone help me locate the fuse for the fan under the dashboard, I am trying to get home and some smoke and plastic burning smell appeared from the centre vents (T5) I immediately switched off the fan and it stopped. It seems to be the fan unit so I want to cut power (remove fuse) so I can get home and deal with it at my local dealers. The fuses under the bottle store are in the photo attached can anyone let me know which one is the correct fuse, thank you. (stupidly I left my users manual at home and the fusecards in the pocket under the fuse box only show the fuses in the box under the hood)

 

[KGCali]

There seem to be many different fuse locations can anyone help me locate the fuse for the fan under the dashboard, I am trying to get home and some smoke and plastic burning smell appeared from the centre vents (T5) I immediately switched off the fan and it stopped. It seems to be the fan unit so I want to cut power (remove fuse) so I can get home and deal with it at my local dealers. The fuses under the bottle store are in the photo attached can anyone let me know which one is the correct fuse, thank you. (stupidly I left my users manual at home and the fusecards in the pocket under the fuse box only show the fuses in the box under the hood)

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Fuse S25 see Post in thread 'Driving heater problem' https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/driving-heater-problem.15865/post-349085

 

[direwolf]

Fuse S25 see Post in thread 'Driving heater problem' https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/driving-heater-problem.15865/post-349085

Thank you but I did see this posted but I am not sure there is a fuse box behind the panel that the big rotary light/fog switch is in on my T5 California LHD. That panel does not seem to have fixings that can be undone to remove it or am I missing something? The centre bottle holder has a huge fuse box behind it as I showed in the photo but I do not have a chart showing if the front cab dashboard fan fuse is in amongst this or as you suggest behind the light switch panel (the image on this link with fuse S25 is a very different dashboard to my T5) so maybe my fan fuse is in the centre?

 

[Viktorgeorge]

Volkswagen California fuse box diagrams for all years - StartMyCar

www.startmycar.com

 

[KGCali]

See all fuses here

Post in thread 'Fuse box under passenger seat' https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/fuse-box-under-passenger-seat.2526/post-22396

 

[KGCali]

There seem to be many different fuse locations can anyone help me locate the fuse for the fan under the dashboard, I am trying to get home and some smoke and plastic burning smell appeared from the centre vents (T5) I immediately switched off the fan and it stopped. It seems to be the fan unit so I want to cut power (remove fuse) so I can get home and deal with it at my local dealers. The fuses under the bottle store are in the photo attached can anyone let me know which one is the correct fuse, thank you. (stupidly I left my users manual at home and the fusecards in the pocket under the fuse box only show the fuses in the box under the hood)

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Try the top left green 30A for the heater if not try the other 30A fuses until fan heater stops.

 

[direwolf]

Volkswagen California fuse box diagrams for all years - StartMyCar

www.startmycar.com

Thank you very much, that site is great and answered the question really well, by just clicking on the list of functions it shows the appropriate fuse-brilliant!! Thank you.

 

[KGCali]

Thank you very much, that site is great and answered the question really well, by just clicking on the list of functions it shows the appropriate fuse-brilliant!! Thank you.

So which fuse was it?

 

[direwolf]

Sorry for delay in the reply…the fuse was the top left fuse (30A). Van booked in for repairs 24/3.