Heater Recirculate Mode?

6thsense said:

For those with the dual climate control, why does the heater in recirculate mode only work when youre in auto.

It doesnt work with the AC off or on and the fan is pointed at your feet. You have to put it in auto to use recirculate. I dont always use auto and dont want to smell all the gas fumes from cars in front of me.

Anyone else find this annoying?

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To many variables here.

With dual climate control, recurculate doesn't work:
With AC and fan at your feet?
You need to put it in Auto to get recirculate to work?

The last sentence, I am guessing that you want to use heat, but don't want to pump in new air.

So, you want to know how to use heat and recirculate together? You want to know if you can without auto? And how does AC fit into the mix?

You should be able to use the recirc. button with the heater manualy. Do you have the heater set to defrost the windshield when you try this? If so when in defrost mode you can not recirculate the air because it creates excess moister inside the vehicle. It should work in the other positions.

92TripleBlack said:

To many variables here.

With dual climate control, recurculate doesn't work:
With AC and fan at your feet?
You need to put it in Auto to get recirculate to work?

The last sentence, I am guessing that you want to use heat, but don't want to pump in new air.

So, you want to know how to use heat and recirculate together? You want to know if you can without auto? And how does AC fit into the mix?

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Yes I want to use heat and recirc together w/o using auto. Recirc only works in when in Auto and Heat mode(air to your feet mode). AC fits into this because I can have the AC on and pointing to your face and recirc works, but as soon as I point air to my feet recirc goes off and pushing the recirc button does nothing. Is it only my Mada that does this? If you have the dual climate controls try it. Put your heater on in manual mode and see if recirc works...i'm sure you will be able to hear the difference in recirc mode vs. outside air mode. lemme know!

RUN2 said:

You should be able to use the recirc. button with the heater manualy. Do you have the heater set to defrost the windshield when you try this? If so when in defrost mode you can not recirculate the air because it creates excess moister inside the vehicle. It should work in the other positions.

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Do you have the Auto option with your climate controls? If so can you try it? I dont have my defrost on. I just verified again that recirc for the heater only works when in auto mode.

Thanks for the response!