First ride in MY Fiat

[pope]

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[pope]

There are three levers for air and heat

1. lever next to the driver is air volume. Pulled all the way back gives you max. air flow. Pushed forward closes air flow.

2. lever just to the right of first lever is heater control. Pulled back gives no heat, just outside air temp. Pushed forward gives you max. heat.

3. lever on far right all by itself, is diverter. Pulled back, it allows air to flow through the upper circular dash vents, pushed forward allows air to flow through upper dash and lower feet vents.
Air is always diverted to dash vents in all instances, unless you close air volume in step 1.

[Tango]

First ride in my new 1981 Fiat Spider tonight (since I trailered it home after buying it). This is Ontario, so it was cool and dark, so with the top up, but I just got the plates on and took it for a spin around town, ran some errands. I can't get the heat to really shut off, and I was surprised how warm it got inside. 10C or 50F outside. I guess that goes on the list for things to look at this winter.

I only wished that a) it wasnt cold and dark and b) I was headed somewhere on a longer drive. I had a ball.

If it is sunny on the weekend i will take some pictures.

I have a couple of questions that I will post when I have a bit more time...

Tim

[kilrwail]

Tim - I answered your e-mail. If all heater levers are down, that's as "off" as it will get!

[katsi]

COOL!
By the way, I can't figure out my heat levers either.

[pope]

There is a fan switch just to the left of the parking brake on the lower console. OFF is when the switch is in the middle position. When you rock the switch forward or backward, that is HI and LO. I think this confuses people, because most think of it as a light switch, up or down, but this has a middle that is OFF.

[htchevyii]

Instead of arrows, think of the triangles as greater and less than signs. Then it makes, (some) sence.

[Tango]

There is a fan switch just to the left of the parking brake on the lower console. OFF is when the switch is in the middle position. When you rock the switch forward or backward, that is HI and LO. I think this confuses people, because most think of it as a light switch, up or down, but this has a middle that is OFF.

The fan makes itself obvious because it is fairly noisy, so I can hear it running high, low and off, but when I move the heater levers to the left of the brake up and down it makes it perhaps more or less warm, but not hot / cool. And when I move the lever on the right side, between something that looks to be marked indicating that it is the windshield defroster and I-dont-know-what, nothing seems to change. I gather there are heater vents near my feet, but I've only had it three days or so and not been able to puzzle that all out yet. I enjoy trying to reverse engineer things, though, see what makes them tick.

For some reason, my wife still feels that evenings are for finishing the renovations around the house that never seem to quite get past the 99% complete point... this could be challenging.

[pope]

There are three levers for air and heat

1. lever next to the driver is air volume. Pulled all the way back gives you max. air flow. Pushed forward closes air flow.

2. lever just to the right of first lever is heater control. Pulled back gives no heat, just outside air temp. Pushed forward gives you max. heat.

3. lever on far right all by itself, is diverter. Pulled back, it allows air to flow through the upper circular dash vents, pushed forward allows air to flow through upper dash and lower feet vents.
Air is always diverted to dash vents in all instances, unless you close air volume in step 1.

[Tango]

Thanks. I was looking at this tonight. I was able to sort it out except your third item. I wasn't sure that it was correct that air always came through the defroster vents on the dash. It's all a bit counter-intuitive with the symbols used, but I think I have it now.

Tim