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Old Apr 25, 2008 | 01:32 AM
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this is referring to a c5;
when i turn the passenger side to the coolest i it blows cold but when i turn the drivers side down to its coolest which is 60....it doesnt blow cold. so the driver side will be blowing cool-luke warm air while the passenger side blows cold....any1 know what the problem can be?
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Old Apr 25, 2008 | 09:39 PM
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I'd say that the air blend door for the driver side isn't shutting off fully. I don't know how they work (cable or motor driven) but that's probably the problem.
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 02:31 AM
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its not just the door vent its also the vent above the radio....which also belons to the driver

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or the evaporator can be clogged, but thats not so often on a newer car
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Old Apr 26, 2008 | 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by hotsauce886
its not just the door vent its also the vent above the radio....which also belons to the driver

The blend door is located way behind the dash, it controls the temp coming out of the vents. Think of it as a Y . At one side of the Y is the A/C evaporator and the other side is the heater core, this merges into one opening that becomes your vents. The blend door closes off either the evaporator of the heater core, so you have full hot or full cold or anywhere between (ie 80% cold and 20% heat) which is where you may be now.

I don't know if that explains it well enough?
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Originally Posted by intense3123
The blend door is located way behind the dash, it controls the temp coming out of the vents. Think of it as a Y . At one side of the Y is the A/C evaporator and the other side is the heater core, this merges into one opening that becomes your vents. The blend door closes off either the evaporator of the heater core, so you have full hot or full cold or anywhere between (ie 80% cold and 20% heat) which is where you may be now.

I don't know if that explains it well enough?
so what am i tryin to fix?
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Old Apr 28, 2008 | 10:39 PM
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for some reason that door isn't closing all the way, you need to find out why. Or live with sweaty *****
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