V70: General Climate control, cabin not warm enough

[Richy Clark]

Hi, I don't think this is a problem related to my previous post but for a while now I have had a niggling feeling that the interior of the car does not get hot enough. Today when setting the climate control to max (HI) on both sides the temperature in the cabin is only getting up to 18C. The outside temperature was 0C.

Has anyone else experienced this and is there a fix?

Kind regards,

Richard.

[krzemien]

I can confirm that when we've been visiting Exmoor around Christmas in 2010 I have noticed that it seemed to be a hectic task for car interior to become really warm - even with regulators set to max. But I've blamed outside temperatures (reaching -12 Celsius degrees in places somewhere on A39) and the fact that Diesel run on low revs does not apprear to be that warm. If that's a feature or a bug, I honestly don't know... Heated seats helped for sure!

[Clan]

Originally Posted by Richy Clark

Hi, I don't think this is a problem related to my previous post but for a while now I have had a niggling feeling that the interior of the car does not get hot enough. Today when setting the climate control to max (HI) on both sides the temperature in the cabin is only getting up to 18C. The outside temperature was 0C.

Has anyone else experienced this and is there a fix?

Kind regards,

Richard.

The temp gauge should get up to the normal centre position within 5 or 10 mins of driving away and stay there all the time even in this weather , is this happening?

[Absolutevolvo]

What setting have on the recirculation? If you have the outside vents are open it will take far longer to warm up. There is a timer setting in the climate settings menu to do this automatically.

I am lazy and leave the car in fully automatic mode with a fixed temp of 19 degrees and it warms up in under a mile - much faster than my wife's Scirocco! I know it uses a little more fuel but I figure the car is smarter than me and knows what the conditions are more accurately. It even turns its heated rear window and mirrors on and off on its own.

[tommyweaves]

Originally Posted by Clan

The temp gauge should get up to the normal centre position within 5 or 10 mins of driving away and stay there all the time even in this weather , is this happening?

What temperature gauge??!!

[Richy Clark]

There is no temperature gauge! I had not thought about the switching the recirc off, will give this a go in the morning.

[Richy Clark]

Have for a few days being playing around with the settings on the climate control. Putting the recirc on definitely does help as setting the controls such that the air blows just form the dashboard vents.

I guess with such low temperatures outside at the moment, the size of the cabin, the amount of glass and the amount of cold leather that it does take a while to heat up the cabin.

[SouthOxon]

I have no problem at all with the cabin temperature, even during this period of more-or-less continuous sub-zero temperatures, but then I have heated seats. They really do make a huge difference; somehow, if your bum and lower back are warm, the rest of you is as well. Heated seats, if not standard, are a low-cost option (a couple of hundred quid) and they really are worth every penny.

[Clan]

Originally Posted by SouthOxon

I have no problem at all with the cabin temperature, even during this period of more-or-less continuous sub-zero temperatures, but then I have heated seats. They really do make a huge difference; somehow, if your bum and lower back are warm, the rest of you is as well. Heated seats, if not standard, are a low-cost option (a couple of hundred quid) and they really are worth every penny.

ALL volvos from 1976 to recent times had heated seats and headlamp wipers as standard equipment until cost cutting came in Under Fords control .. It was really a backward step leaving off such things .
Today it would cost £50000 for a car of the quality of a 20 year old 940 ..