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[feeutfo]

Running on 'Auto' means air con on, does it not?regardless of temp set......

yes, unless eco is selected as well.....

[TheBoy]

The manual recommends it being leave on.

[joshwyatt]

I only have a few annoyances with the Omega;
Glovebox - But it's no worse than many other cars
Cup holder - I rarely use it myself, but passengers complain about it.
Door mirrors - They don't fold as flat against the vehicle as much as I'd like.
That's about it really, everything else is fine.

[henryd]

The manual recommends it being leave on.

my aircon mans favourite saying is "use it or lose it"

[Omega_Dan]

After 6 weeks of ownership current annoyances are

 1.Climate control sometimes has a mind of its own
 2.Its thirsty but i knew that when i bought it
 

Thats all i can think off. overall i love it
 

[Kevin Wood]

1.Climate control sometimes has a mind of its own

This can be greatly improved by upgrading the firmware and disabling the fan control program, IME.

Kevin

[aaronjb]

1.Climate control sometimes has a mind of its own

This can be greatly improved by upgrading the firmware and disabling the fan control program, IME.

You can do that? Excellent.. that's another thing on the list for when I finally pay a visit.. That whole randomly-switching-to-full-blast thing bugs me (not just the Omega, the Nissan did it too). Yes, car, I'd like the cabin warming up .. but you don't need to turn the car into a wind tunnel to do it

[Omega_Dan]

1.Climate control sometimes has a mind of its own

This can be greatly improved by upgrading the firmware and disabling the fan control program, IME.

You can do that? Excellent.. that's another thing on the list for when I finally pay a visit.. That whole randomly-switching-to-full-blast thing bugs me (not just the Omega, the Nissan did it too). Yes, car, I'd like the cabin warming up .. but you don't need to turn the car into a wind tunnel to do it

how is that acheived kevin? would be interested to know

[Kevin Wood]

how is that acheived kevin? would be interested to know

There's a parameter, accessible by Tech 2 that you can set to calm down the automatic fan control. I'm guessing GM got lots of customer complaints in the early days so added a setting that dealers can use to appease customers who didn't like it.

From what I have noticed, the effects appear to be:

The fan control is much less frenetic. It would previously go to max speed if the temperature deviated by a degree or two from the set point. It now only seems to use high fan speeds if genuinely required to maintain temperature, or where the car is very hot and maximum air con effect is required.

During steady-state driving at a stable temperature the minimum fan setting possible appears to be used. Beforehand, I always felt it used too much fan, causing me to constantly turn it down.

One you have taken it out of auto and set a fan speed manually, it stays at that speed, even if you change a temperature setting, for example. Previously, it would set the fan back to a high speed as soon as you touched anything else.

Depends on your preference. Some people don't have a problem with the standard behaviour, but of all the people for whom I've changed this setting nobody has asked me to put it back again.

Kevin

[2woody]

hell yes, that one works !

or to put it another way, Kevin is a genius

[Kevin Wood]

or to put it another way, Kevin is a genius

Steady on! I only pressed a few buttons.

Kevin

[henryd]

or to put it another way, Kevin is a genius

Steady on! I only pressed a few buttons.

Kevin

ah yes,but you obviously pressed the right ones

[TheBoy]

how is that acheived kevin? would be interested to know

There's a parameter, accessible by Tech 2 that you can set to calm down the automatic fan control. I'm guessing GM got lots of customer complaints in the early days so added a setting that dealers can use to appease customers who didn't like it.

From what I have noticed, the effects appear to be:

The fan control is much less frenetic. It would previously go to max speed if the temperature deviated by a degree or two from the set point. It now only seems to use high fan speeds if genuinely required to maintain temperature, or where the car is very hot and maximum air con effect is required.

During steady-state driving at a stable temperature the minimum fan setting possible appears to be used. Beforehand, I always felt it used too much fan, causing me to constantly turn it down.

One you have taken it out of auto and set a fan speed manually, it stays at that speed, even if you change a temperature setting, for example. Previously, it would set the fan back to a high speed as soon as you touched anything else.

Depends on your preference. Some people don't have a problem with the standard behaviour, but of all the people for whom I've changed this setting nobody has asked me to put it back again.

Kevin

Indeed, I run my Elite with this option disabled. Much better imho.  I found the facelift standard to be annoying, far worse than prefacelift.

[albitz]

Kevin performed this mod on my car at the Essex meet last year (before I owned the car ) it is imo a hell of a lot better than the standard F/L setup.