A new button to play with
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A new button to play with
I wasn't ever happy with the inability to manually direct the climate control airflow in my 93. I decided to see if I could transplant just the ECC head from the 97 which adds the Mode button for this function. It somewhat worked but the Recirc function didn't operate and the AC was always on. Today I installed the HVAC programmer and happiness was restored. There were no modifications needed to install either the head or programmer. It was simply a plug and play swap.
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Re: A new button to play with
Originally Posted by randman1
I wasn't ever happy with the inability to manually direct the climate control airflow in my 93. I decided to see if I could transplant just the ECC head from the 97 which adds the Mode button for this function. It somewhat worked but the Recirc function didn't operate and the AC was always on. Today I installed the HVAC programmer and happiness was restored. There were no modifications needed to install either the head or programmer. It was simply a plug and play swap.
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Originally Posted by jwikoff99
Lose the self-diagnostics, though?
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Yep, you are going to lose the dimming control for both the stereo AND ECC, right? Because prior to 96 it was controlled by the HU, 96+ was controlled by the ECC. But, since you have a different HU.. that probably won't be affected, since I am guessing the HU isn't wired into the dimmer switch, whatsoever?
Cood mod, but I still swear my '89 can do that.. I have a battery now so I could test it.. but I will wait until the car is running first. Or the snow melts [yes, we have snow! :(].
-justin
Cood mod, but I still swear my '89 can do that.. I have a battery now so I could test it.. but I will wait until the car is running first. Or the snow melts [yes, we have snow! :(].
-justin
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I too noticed that nice feature missing in my 1990 the oither day when driving it home.
I am gonna have to do this mod now since I have the 1997 controls already.
Ok, call me a dumbass -where is the HVAC programmer? I have the controls in my 1997 yet, but am not sure if I sent the programmer to Harofreaks dad with some other modules.
I am gonna have to do this mod now since I have the 1997 controls already.
Ok, call me a dumbass -where is the HVAC programmer? I have the controls in my 1997 yet, but am not sure if I sent the programmer to Harofreaks dad with some other modules.
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Originally Posted by willwren
How does the new ECC match the interior at night?
The programmer is located right next to the heater core access door on both the 93 and 97. It'* actually mounted to it. I've never had to dig into the one on the 90 but I think it'* located in the same spot.