Vents blowing wrong temp of air

[Lord Leroy]

Does anyone have the problem of temperature set to warm on drivers side and cold on the passenger side and the regular vents blow out warm on middle driver, but cold on left drivers vent? It is like the passenger temp controls the left drivers vent.

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[JacobAZ]

The R1 uses a heat pump which can produce hot air or cold air, one or the other, but not both at the same time. The driver/passenger temp settings adjust airflow. It can't simultaneously heat (hotter than outside air) and cool (colder than outside air). So, you may be asking the system to do both which is physically impossible.

 

[Lord Leroy]

False. The one driver vent in the middle is hot air, but the left driver vent is cold when it should be hot.

 

[JacobAZ]

I'll try to clarify ... The R1 can either warm or cool air (via the heat pump), but not do both at the same time. It can also bring air in from outside which is either warmer or cooler than the R1 interior. So if its 75 degrees outside and you set one side of car to 80 and the other side to 70, the R1 has to make a decision. Should it warm air to 80 or cool air to 70, it can't do both. So maybe its confused.

 

[godfodder0901]

I'll try to clarify ... The R1 can either warm or cool air (via the heat pump), but not do both at the same time. It can also bring air in from outside which is either warmer or cooler than the R1 interior. So if its 75 degrees outside and you set one side of car to 80 and the other side to 70, the R1 has to make a decision. Should it warm air to 80 or cool air to 70, it can't do both. So maybe its confused.

True that the heat pump can only operate in one mode at a time. That's why those systems have supplemental resistive heaters as well.

 

[Lord Leroy]

Still doesn’t explain why,

1)left vent set to warm but has cold air
2) middle left vent set to warm and has warm air
3) right middle and far right vents set to cold air and has cold air.

the problem isn’t the heat pump, but where the air is being sent. Hence the whole dual climate controls.

heat pump should send warm air to left and left middle and outside “cool” air to right and right middle.

 

[NY_Rob]

1)left vent set to warm but has cold air
2) middle left vent set to warm and has warm air
3) right middle and far right vents set to cold air and has cold air.

2 out of 3 ain't bad???

 

[CANCERDOC]

Have you used an infrared thermometer to measure the actual air temperature? Or are you going by the colors on the display (which are always totally wrong?” Have you tried 1) turning off auto and back on auto? 2) turn off sync? 3) hard reset in case it’s a climate computer issue?

Try all those and report back.

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