Thread: D4 Dual Climate Control - am I missing something?

Originally Posted by Tombie

Here's the amusing bit.

If you're comfortable at say 23 set it at 23...
It doesn't blow any hotter than on 28
It just will charge towards 23 and hold there...

Like an air conditioner - and so many people misunderstand this - it doesn't blow any colder with the thermostat at 20 or 25.

Can you tell my wife that?! 😀

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Just to confirm, you are only sitting on one side of the car, right? 😜

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My side of the car is on 23 during winter, and 22 during summer. And, by my side, I mean the side I am allowed to sit on, after SWMBO has decided who is driving.

Both little lights on the centre dial are on, meaning it is on full auto.

Auto, I understand means, automatic. The car will sort out the temperature by itself, according to what I have told it I want.

So, provided the other side is with 5 degree's C, I have air coming out at my desired temperature.

So, please explain why you feel the need to change BOTH dials? Put the bloody thing in auto, and twist your own knob.

OK, so the good thing here is that i have confirmed no one else really understands the Disco's climate control either. One person saying the air comes out the same temp anyway, and now someone saying what I thought was the case, the air comes out at the temp you set it at.

Anyway, to your question,

Originally Posted by Basil135

So, please explain why you feel the need to change BOTH dials? Put the bloody thing in auto, and twist your own knob.

Well it's like this, when I get cold I put both arms in my jacket - I know I'll still get warm eventually with just one arm in there, but given my jacket comes with 2 arms I use both to get me warmer quicker.

Call me crazy, but I do the same thing when I get hot - I take both arms out of my jacket - I know, I know, I know I should just take one arm out because that'll cool me down eventually, but I can't help thinking there are 2 arms attached to one body so why not just do the same thing with both.

Allow me to ask a question, why would land rover have a function that allows you to open all windows at once (when unlocking from the key fob), but not have a function that allows you to control all of the climate control at once?

I mean you could just lower 1 window right? The car would still cool down - in fact it would appear from all of the responses above you'd be a bloody idiot to think there was a need to do anything but lower one window - sheeez, and you wonder why the land rover wave is dying, turning into the land rover middle finger

I think that the temp is determined by the return air. The air is put into the cabin at the same temp but the duration varies depending on the temp of the return air. No knowledge was used in this reply.
I set my side at 22 because it is straight up and down. Go figure.

It's just some fun. I'll try rephrasing. I like 21 deg so I set the climate control such. On a -2 deg morning, 21 feels lovely and warm, thawing me out first thing as it gets to 21 as fast as it can. On a 40 deg afternoon, 21 feels nice and cool as the aircon puffs out cool breezes to counter the radiant heat.
If the passenger disagrees vehemently, the LR engineers have determined the system can handle a max 5 deg difference, beyond which the passenger is slave to the driver. Personally I've never felt the other zone affecting my zone.
So the short answer is, there's no master control option and most people seem not to be worried by that. Perhaps VW had a cabin air flow issue they couldn't resolve or something...

I personally like the advancements that Landrover have made in Thermodynamics that prevent the air inside the cabin mixing up and all becoming one temp anyway. ;-)

I still don't get why people need to change the setting ever. As far as I'm concerned they can lose both dials and have control three layers down in the touch pad but never mind. If it's not too much of a thread hijack, or a stupid question, do people have their aircon on all the time including winter? The aircon is not reverse cycle is it?