>From: macklow@sybase.com (Jim Macklow)

>>  
>>   Question: Should the air which comes out of the rear-passenger ceiling
>>             vents be warm? I had tons of airflow of cold air, no matter what
>>             I tried I couldn't get rear heat. The front heat was fine though.
>
>The ceiling vents only deliver fresh air, which could be warm or cold 
>depending on the outside temp. :-)  One thing I like about the four-lever
>system is its simplicity... top lever for air delivery to the windshield,
>next lever down for temp, next lever for footwell air deliver, and the
>bottom lever for the rear fresh air.  The levers have a different feel to
>them:  The levers for the windshield and footwell are smooth, and the other
>two levers have bumps on them.  Since these bumpy and smooth levers 
>alternate, going from top to bottom, its easy to adjust the flow of air and
>temp without taking your eyes off the road!
>
>Kudos to the VW engineers!

I believe the VW engineers did a good job designing the four lever system.
You can't make it any simpler.  I have no trouble with it but my parents 
still have not figured it out yet and they have been driving it since new!
I have to explain the above each time we go out while they would be moving
levers around.

Jonathan
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Jonathan Dove   jdove@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu
82 Rabbit PU, 83 GTI, 85 Vanagon, 87 Golf
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