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Old 12-18-2012, 02:42 PM
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Heater control issues

Has anyone come across heater control issues like i am having..

What happens is the temp setting keeps rising up to its max. If you hold the temp lower button it will go down but as soon as you stop the temp rises up to max again....

Not great when the SVX is the summer cruise car...

We are taking it up from Palmy to Whakatane for new years and i would love to sus it out before then..
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Old 12-18-2012, 02:55 PM
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Re: Heater control issues

first thing that comes to mind is: if you push up on it, do you get the same feel as pressing down? A feeling like the up switch is stuck and not giving you a positive feel?
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Old 12-18-2012, 04:20 PM
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Re: Heater control issues

Sounds like the same issue that I was having last year - mine fixed itself, but there is a japanese site somewhere suggesting that all the electrolytic capacitors should be replaced -

http://genmei.itline.jp/~svx/diary/?date=20040912

not sure if it is still around?
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Old 12-18-2012, 04:33 PM
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Re: Heater control issues

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Has anyone come across heater control issues like i am having..

What happens is the temp setting keeps rising up to its max. If you hold the temp lower button it will go down but as soon as you stop the temp rises up to max again....

Not great when the SVX is the summer cruise car...

We are taking it up from Palmy to Whakatane for new years and i would love to sus it out before then..
That is a known problem with that type of Aircon unit. Capacitors age and leak to cause corrosion of the board.
You can read about the fix in these posts. The link to the Japanese fix, reads ok by Bing.

http://svxworldforums.com/forum15/3114-1.html
And here.
http://www.subaru-svx.net/forum/showthread.php?t=52387

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Old 12-18-2012, 07:51 PM
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Re: Heater control issues

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first thing that comes to mind is: if you push up on it, do you get the same feel as pressing down? A feeling like the up switch is stuck and not giving you a positive feel?
Yeah it feels the same when you push either up and or down....

I might have to pull the console out and have a decent stripdown look..

Lucky i have a set of the factory Subaru manuals to help..
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Re: Heater control issues

I did a "how to" on this - sent it to one of our members, but it has not been posted yet?
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Re: Heater control issues

Still waiting for the "How To" to be posted ...... check with Earl as to how long it is going to take him to "re-format" the PDF.

(the original Word Doc is 90 Meg - far to big to email.

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Old 03-20-2014, 07:52 PM
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Re: Heater control issues

do you want to send it to me to fix up ?

I used www.ge.tt to send a 135MB file to someone, worked easily.
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Old 03-23-2014, 02:50 AM
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Re: Heater control issues

Shane - sending through now...

Note that the C9 cap may have same effect for temp up as temp down ?
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