You guys with Limiteds, hows your climate control working?
 

I was just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing I am.

My 2007 STI had climate control which when I set it to a specific temperature it not only adjusted fan speed but the temperature of the air that came out of the vents adjusted too. Setting it to 74 kept me pretty comfortable and I didn't have to touch it.

With the BRZ the climate control only seems to control fan speed. When I get in my car and its scorching outside I turn it down to low 70's and as it cools off the fan speed adjust accordingly but the air coming out is still freezing. forcing me to turn it up to 80-82 so its barely blowing. Even then its still lightly blowing ice cold air constantly. WTF! It's gotta be broken or was this part sourced from Toyota and this is how their climate control works.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

and just for so you know. I do have it on "FULL AUTO" and have high grade 3M tint.


Also inb4 "first world problems"

I don't really like having it on full auto. I prefer to adjust the fan speed and temperature separately.
That being said, when I adjust the temperature, I have noticed that the air coming out the vents does indeed change temprature slightly. I will experiment with the auto feature and see if that's different. I wouldn't think so, though.

I just manually set it to a temp and then a fan speed. I never really liked how the fan speed will jump up to full speed, even when it's not needed.

Also, curious, but does anyone notice that if you turn the controls on, the AC comes on as well? I'd be nice if it didn't do that, since I have to turn it off right after if I'm not going to use it. I have a feeling it'll put more wear on it in the future.

I have mine set at 69 and I don't think the car has ever really gone off of full blast. It feels cool but it has never actually been cold in the car at all. I also have darkest legal Llumar ceramic tint and it lowered the temperature in the car from 160 to around 140 when I get in after work.

So I wouldn't know... Sounds like you could just turn the knob down in speed if it gets cold. I had to do the same thing in my M3 because that bitch would make it snow

Mine works as it should. The temp of the air indeed does change depending on the setting. I only wish there was an option for cooler air without using the AC. But overall, I am content with it.

Same here.

Seems to be working this way for me. Of course it is 100 degrees outside so no car I drive seems to have ice cold AC :)

I think I might have a problem with mine then. No matter what temp I set it to, if the AC is off, the vents blow warm air.

With my other Subaru, the non-AC vent would blow at coldest, about 5-10 degrees warmer than outside air. (I suspect due to plumbing the air past the hot engine.). So when it's 68 outside, the vent will blow at 75 or so.

The engine in this car rejects a huge amount of heat into the passenger cabin; between Alcantara seats on the Ltd and turning off the A/C, I recall that some reviewers very easily started sweating when it was only 60 or 70 degrees out. Warm air coming out the vents, as @ashtray said, could just be ambient outside air warmed by proximity to the engine.

Do people notice the engine temperature running cool even when it's hot outside? My other subarus always ran with the temperature gauge showing at the mid position.

I think you've misunderstood. The AC needs to be on in order to properly use the climate control. I even mentioned that without the AC on the air is never cool. Your climate control works just like mine does.

I don't quite understand how the air could get cooler without the A/C on. What I meant was that with the A/C on, the temp of the air seems to vary with the temp setting

After proper warmup, I am a hairline below dead center on the temp gauge. Even in this heat we are having.