Over the last few months I've posted a couple of times about the car "steaming up" when its cold, damp and more than just me in the car. Vents checked, filter changed, scuttle drain clean, re-circ valve checked, re-circ button pressed and re-pressed numerous times and it still happened, only solution appeared to be to crack a window or the sun roof open.
It was suggested that the air con might not be running efficiently to dry the incoming air correctly, so to the air con people who diagnosed low refrigerant and a leaking condensor.
£454 later, plus a broken radiator (different thread covers that saga), and it still does it as intermittently as before, except I now seem to have found a solution .......
If the conditions are correct, cold, damp, car full and the misting up starts, if I pull over, switch engine off, then switch ignition on (without starting the engine) and do a full reset of climate (Auto+off for 30 seconds) then start the engine without turning the ignition off, the steaming up starts to clear instantly and is gone within minutes, and the car remains clear for the duration. If I remember to do the sequence before driving off, the car does not steam up at all. If I forget, and just start and go .. it'll steam up .... regular as clockwork.
If I try the reset procedure with the engine running .. nothing at all happens .. must be done ignition on, engine stopped.
Does this sound like a climate control panel problem to anyone ?? Or is it something else ?? How easy is it to change the climate control panel ?? and how reliable are second hand ones (I'd hate to think how much a new one would be !!!)
Any advice gratefully accepted
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