In a message dated 8/13/02 9:39:15 PM, jr@RATWERKS.COM writes:

>Or even a photocopy. I mostly want something that tells me all that user
>stuff that is not in the Bently book. Like whatall these buttons and knobs
>on my dashboard do. You'd think after growing up in splits and loafs I'd
>just grok the VW way, but this a/c and vent business on my 85 GL has
>me a bit baffled.

I'm going to make a dangerous assumption that your 85 has "climate control"
levers like my 86....If that is the case....

You should have 4 sliding levers. There will be a fan knob to the left and a
fan knob to the right. The one on the left is for the rear heater under the
rear seat. The knob on the right is for the fresh air fan in the front. The
rear heater doesn't have a tempature setting, it is either on or off.

The 4 levers control distribution of air and the tempature. The important one
is the tempature which is the 2nd one down. Left for cool, Right for heat.

The top lever controls distribution to the top side dash vents (i.e. defrost
vents). One direction is full open, the other full closed (it's easy enough
to check which way is which when the fan is running.

The 3rd lever down controls air to your feet. One way is open, one way is
closed, but closed is in the OPPOSITE direction from closed for the defrost
vents!

Last lever controls fresh air to the main cabin (through the vents above the
windows).

The vents next to your door on the dash are for fresh air. The blower will
blow air to them, but the levers make no difference for these vents. They
have their own lever to close them off.

And finally, On my 86 there are blue levers sticking through vents on the
doors. (almost behind the seat). This is for fresh air also. Closed is all
the way back. Open is all the way front.

Now if you have a dash mounted AC unit, I don't have info on that. The AC on
my 86 is up top, and that's where my controls are (my 91 westy has dash
mounted AC controls). However, I believe the AC controls prior to 86 were
different than on 86 and later beasts so I'll pass on describing them.