Success: External temp in Climatronic screen

TriggerFish · Post by **TriggerFish** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:37 pm

Hi all,

Very quickly: does your climatronic unit display the outside temperature on the left of the screen?

The one in my Polo doesn't, but the one in the Golf does. Just wondering if it should do or not, as I can get a new Golf one for £5, and would quite like the temp on the A/C unit. (I might try swapping them over if I can be motivated/get the Golf one out easily!)

Cheers,
Joe

*Edit* Post 7 for solution!

nigelelliott394 · Post by **nigelelliott394** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 6:57 pm

Mine doesn't. I'd say it's probably because there's already the temperature reading on the clocks.

Doesn't really bother me that much though

TriggerFish · Post by **TriggerFish** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:10 pm

Cheers - it's on the Golf clocks too, with the MPG etc sitting between the two main dials.

Just for the sake of £5 it would be quite nice to have (if it's a unit specific thing) or useful as a spare anyway.

neilGTI · Post by **neilGTI** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:19 am

TriggerFish · Post by **TriggerFish** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:13 pm

Yeah, I've found the diagnostic mode before now - it's this I'm after:

I've read it's a coding option, so will have a quick look, see if it can be turned on with VAGCOM. I think all the cars use the same units, so buying another would be a waste of money.

TriggerFish · Post by **TriggerFish** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:27 pm

Hmm, might be doable:

http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.ph ... nditioning

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.p ... ot-working

If I'm right, the Polo should read: *40*1 at present. If I try changing that too *40*0 then maybe it'll display. I'll have to check the Golf too, see if that ends with a 0 or 1.

TriggerFish · Post by **TriggerFish** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:09 pm

Right, got this working now - quick video of the change below.

In short - in VAG-COM, module 8 Auto HVAC, recode and change the last digit to a 0 (so my thoughts in post 6 were right!

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It now read 04000 which means everything I guessed above was right, and I think I get how VAG-COM coding works.

nigelelliott394 · Post by **nigelelliott394** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:18 pm

Very good

well done

joe2612 · Post by **joe2612** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:51 pm

Cheers for finding this out Joe, been wondering how to get that back

Ashcroft · Post by **Ashcroft** » Sun May 06, 2012 9:56 pm

I've got this on mine but it's 1-2 out.... Does anyone know if it takes the temp from 2 different sensors???

TriggerFish · Post by **TriggerFish** » Sun May 06, 2012 10:35 pm

Mine differs a bit too. My conclusion is drawn from what it does on the Golf. The Polo gives whole numbers - 6,7,8 etc on the dash, the Golf *.5 too. 6.5,7,7.5 etc.

If it says 6.5 on the dash, it'll often say 7 on the climatronic. I'm guessing that it's just it rounding the numbers slightly differently to the dashpod. So the dash could go to 6, the climatronic 7. I think it's that anyway. Don't think there are two sensors, as on the Golf the sensor is iffy, and drops to -20c quite often, which also shows up on the climatronic. If there were two sensors I doubt that would happen.

Ashcroft · Post by **Ashcroft** » Sun May 06, 2012 11:47 pm

I thought it mite be that but my climatronic would say 8 and the clocks would say 9 or 10 lol

Bradley · Post by **Bradley** » Wed May 09, 2012 5:55 pm

Nice one dude,wonder what i'll be coding at the weekend.

TriggerFish · Post by **TriggerFish** » Sat May 19, 2012 8:07 pm

Ashcroft wrote:I thought it mite be that but my climatronic would say 8 and the clocks would say 9 or 10 lol

I see what you mean now - I had 6 and 12 showing on mine! Weird! I know the Golf had something where the temp reading didn't change until you'd driven a certain distance/time, maybe that's what the dash is doing, whereas the AC is in realtime? (I park in the shade in the mornings, so stands to reason.) Odd either way though!

Post by **alexperkins** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 9:28 am

Ooo i didnt know we could do this! Off to check VCDS... lol

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