Air con in reverse!!

joebailie · Jun 27, 2005

Came home last nite and was parking up the kerb, went a little to far and then popped the car in reverse, all of the sudden the air con came on harder!

For a good demo, leave the car running on idle with the air con blowing through the front vents at the fastest power. Then put the car in reverse and they'll suddenly start blowing harder, then calms down after you take it outta reverse.
Think its because when ur in reverse theres not as much air getting to the air con unit so it blows harder to compensate. Correct me if i'm wrong tho.

182blue · Jun 27, 2005

mine doesnt do it ?

Ol' Timer · Jun 27, 2005

I think it's because the aircon switches to recycle mode as you engage reverse, so that fumes are not sucked into the cabin as you reverse through your exhaust.

Try switching the aircon to recycle mode and see if it sounds the same.

mr_s81 · Jun 27, 2005

Mine does that too!! Dunno why

182blue · Jun 27, 2005

just tried mine, and yes it does do it

orangesprout · Jun 28, 2005

this has puzzlws mw for a while.

orangesprout · Jun 28, 2005

this has puzzled me for a while.

Niall · Jun 28, 2005

Ol' Timer said:
I think it's because the aircon switches to recycle mode as you engage reverse, so that fumes are not sucked into the cabin as you reverse through your exhaust.

Try switching the aircon to recycle mode and see if it sounds the same.

This is the answer. It has been dicussed here before. The quickest way to cool down the car in the summer is also to use the recirc mode.

182blue · Jun 28, 2005

^^yeh, but car can get fogged up tho

T. Spark · Jun 28, 2005

I'll have to give this a whirl

Diablo559 · Jun 28, 2005

i noticed theat to its weird

Mr.Bean · Jun 29, 2005

Ol' Timer said:
I think it's because the aircon switches to recycle mode as you engage reverse, so that fumes are not sucked into the cabin as you reverse through your exhaust.

Try switching the aircon to recycle mode and see if it sounds the same.

Right

joebailie · Jun 29, 2005

Switched it to recycle mode, makes it constantly more powerfull until you put it back to normal.

cupra_matt · Jul 2, 2005

The answer is as Timer says. It recirculates the aircon whilst in reverse so you dont breath in fumes your reversing over.

Silver Bullet · Nov 30, 2006

Good, I thought something had gone horribly wrong with some cables when the dealer replaced my reverse light switch, good to know it's actually supposed to do that although I wouldn't really call it a "vital" safety feature

davels · Nov 30, 2006

ha forgot they done this, i noticed it on my old one, andi didn't take much notice of it on my new one. does seem weird when you first realise tho

j.a.kelly · Nov 30, 2006

D4n said:
Good question - although it only comes up at least once a week! lol.
Have a good read here...

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=32705

Or here...

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=74541

There's a secret button on the Menu above, that not many people know about, its 2nd from the Right, and is named "SEARCH" strangely!?

This thread also originally started in 2005 fella...if you look at the first posts....so someone did search to prevent re-posting

JK

j.a.kelly · Nov 30, 2006

does it really matter? lol

its better than startin a whole new one anyway ... maybe its not, but the guy obviously felt he had a problem, searched and realised he didnt. I was pointing out that he had searched and hadnt reposted at all

JK

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