2023 Climate Control Defugalty

[Glen Baker LLC]

Oh man,
I have a 25 XLT and I am clueless on the climate controls. If I have it on auto, nothing happens. I manually turn up the fan and then auto turns off. It seems the air changes where it comes out of automatically. This is beyond stupid. And I feel like an idiot with this whole thing.
Love the truck otherwise.
Bob

If you are using Auto Climate Control and you Manually change the fan speed, the system reverts to Manual operation. You have Manually overriding the Auto system.
When it comes to the auto climate control. In the immortal words of Ron Popeil.

Quit fussing with it.

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[lm126027]

Ridesolo -- Agree with you on the 2020 Escape Titanium, but on my 2024 Mav Lariat, I have to run the temp from 62 to 64 or it cooks me out of the truck. Frustrated whenever the temps are not cold enough that it is always calling for heat... Then the dxxx dash vents may blow cold air (can not be shut completely, can lower to almost off by shifting the lever to the right, but they are never completely off) or the central ones, were I have had one blowing cold and the other warm.

 

[DanaL]

Here in San Diego I rarely need the heat, and only occasionally the cool. (On the few desert-hot days the auto works well.)
But most of the time what I want is just ventilation: no fan, just a little fresh outside temp air in through the vents. On my other cars that was always possible, but if it is on the Mav I haven't figured it out.

I have a 2024 Lariat (just in case that matters) and I think I figured it out. Yesterday, I noticed a light on the AC button. I pushed AC button and it went off. I didn't feel any cold air. My wife got warm so I pressed the AC button and cool air came out. Today, it was 73. I set the temperature to LO and turned off the AC light. No cool air. It seems weird that it worked because Ford even told me it was impossible, but give it a shot. I'm going to post this as a separate thread, but you asked the exact question I was going to a while ago.

 

[HeyBales]

I have a 2024 Lariat (just in case that matters) and I think I figured it out. Yesterday, I noticed a light on the AC button. I pushed AC button and it went off. I didn't feel any cold air. My wife got warm so I pressed the AC button and cool air came out. Today, it was 73. I set the temperature to LO and turned off the AC light. No cool air. It seems weird that it worked because Ford even told me it was impossible, but give it a shot. I'm going to post this as a separate thread, but you asked the exact question I was going to a while ago.

The light on the AC button means that's the mode being used.
Pressing it and light goes out and no cold air - should be expected.
Pressing it and light goes on and now cold air - should be expected.

Setting temp to LOW would have turned AC on max for awhile - but then you turned the AC off and now no cool air - should be expected.

 

[HeyBales]

I just wish there was also a display for current indoor temp - not what you've set it to.
Obviously there can be a difference for awhile. So show both.
Shoot - throw humidity in there too since it knows!
Even the old small screens have some space for that along the top, if you remove outdoor temp.
Outdoor temp already on instrument panel, don't need that on info screen too.

Now being in the shoulder season I need to remind myself what the temp difference is to NOT bring on the AC automatically when I set the indoor temp. Could it be a simple even 5 F? probably 7.
It seems like within a certain range it does just bring in outside air, which is my preferred way on longer steady-speed drives when that is good enough.

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