"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Slomo wrote:
No, it's a pain in the arse, at least as implemented in my C4. I don't
give a monkey's about whether the temperature I want is 22C or
whatever. When I get in the car, if I'm cold I want to get hot ASAP, so
I set temp to max. Once I'm warm enough, air at a somewhat lower temp
is what I want. So I turn the temp down from, say 27 to say 22. But
what actually happens is that instead of getting air at 22 I get air
*much* colder than that, because the car thinks I want the entire
ambient temp to get to 22 ASAP.

What I want is a simple slider or dial, such that I get air out of it
at a temp that exactly relates to the dial/slider position.

No reason why a well designed climate control can't have a
button which tells it to operate the way you want when getting
into the car cold and do it the way you want when you tell it to
stop doing that by unpressing that button when warm enough.

The climate control on my ancient BMW in auto mode starts with the fan
just idling on a cold start. Once the coolant gets warm enough, it ramps
up the fan speed to heat the cabin to the set temperature as quickly as
possible. As it approaches that temperature, it ramps down to a normal
quiet speed. And once at temperature, it opens the cold air vents to the
face, if that's what you want. If you select the AC, it does much the same
to cool the car. It works so well I very rarely touch it.

That doesn’t work as well for the situation where you are out of
the car for a relatively short while in the depths of winter and want
to have the heater warm you personally up as fast as possible by
jacking up the car interior temp for a while until you somehow
tell it that you're warm enough now tho. Just a 'warm me up now'
button should do that fine. Same with the height of summer here
where it can be useful to get cooled off quickly when you have
just got into the car with it 110F outside and you have been out
in the sun for a bit etc.