would someone please tell me how to control the fresh air/recirc button. i have an 04 with the auto climate control, and i cant turn the fresh/recirc air off or on with out turning my air off and on, is there something im doing wrong or is it not possible

thanks
chris

 

With auto climate control, the fan has to be on for any of the controls to be active. When the fan is off, the vents are physically closed, so no air is moving (making fresh air vs. recirculation a moot point).

 

I never had a problem. You have found the right button, its second from the bottom on the left, it has a chasing arrows icon. I'd usually have Auto and A/C on and when I pressed the recirc button it'd light up. The Auto and A/C buttons remained lit.

Yours isn't doing that?

 

well when ever the light is not on, and fresh air is coming in, it is fairly hot air, so like the last couple of days where it was rainging and the temp was fairly decent outside i had my windows up and the vents where pushing out hot air. so i had to keep turning on the A/C to defog everything, kinda annoys me.

 

Thats what the A/C is supposed to do. If it gets too cold for you, turn the heat up a bit. A fully "set the temperature" type automatic climate control system basically has the A/C going full time and adjusts the heater output to achieve the desired temperature.

 

Yeah, its automatic, set the temperature and forget it, leave the A/C lit. The system does everything else.

With recirc on in any car, it'll fog up, the A/C will take the moisture out of the air so it doesn't.

 

When you want only outside air,you have to turn the temperature control down. The reason you feel hot air coming from the vents is because the system is attempting to keep the cabin at the temperature you have selected, fan speed as well as recirculate selection have no bearing on what air temperature comes form the vents. What this all adds up to is, if you want ambient air to come into the car, turn off the compressor, turn off the recirculate and turn the temperature setting as low as it will go. I must add that this is true for my 2002 car with auto temp control, later years I am not sure about.