Apologies in advance if there is an existing post on this (I haven't been able to find any, so please guide me in the right direction if there is one).
I have a 1999 Land Cruiser 100 series. Here are the main symptoms:
- When I adjust the temperature control dial (i.e., knob that controls cold to hot settings, NOT the dial that controls fan speed), the temperature at the very lowest (i.e., cold) works okay, but is pretty cold
- When I adjust the same knob a mere one "circle" higher (i.e., warmer), the temperature gets very warm, I would say closer to hot (uncomfortably so)
- For long drives, I literally have to switch up and down between the two lowest settings, constantly, which is super frustrating and annoying for myself and all passengers, and the temp is never "just right"
Some other symptoms that may or may not be related:
- regardless of outside temp or inside temp, the entire dash (climate/radio controls) gets very hot (in fact, it feels like it's going to melt my old-school tape converter I use for music)
- the auto controls are ridiculous - if I put the temp and/or fan speed dial on "auto", the climate system goes to the extreme (i.e., full blast, either cold or hot)
I took the truck to a mechanic when getting other work done, and asked them to take a look. They apparently pulled off the dash plate, as they thought it could be dust build-up on the physical dial plate/control, but that did not work. They told me if I wanted them to fix it, they would need to spend a significant amount of time pulling apart the dash and temperature system to find the problem. They also did am electronic code read and nothing came up.
Has anyone heard about something like this? Ideally, I would like to fix this myself, but am at the point that I will pay the $000's of dollars likely needed to solve this problem. Any thoughts would be much appreciated!!
Thanks.
I have a 1999 Land Cruiser 100 series. Here are the main symptoms:
- When I adjust the temperature control dial (i.e., knob that controls cold to hot settings, NOT the dial that controls fan speed), the temperature at the very lowest (i.e., cold) works okay, but is pretty cold
- When I adjust the same knob a mere one "circle" higher (i.e., warmer), the temperature gets very warm, I would say closer to hot (uncomfortably so)
- For long drives, I literally have to switch up and down between the two lowest settings, constantly, which is super frustrating and annoying for myself and all passengers, and the temp is never "just right"
Some other symptoms that may or may not be related:
- regardless of outside temp or inside temp, the entire dash (climate/radio controls) gets very hot (in fact, it feels like it's going to melt my old-school tape converter I use for music)
- the auto controls are ridiculous - if I put the temp and/or fan speed dial on "auto", the climate system goes to the extreme (i.e., full blast, either cold or hot)
I took the truck to a mechanic when getting other work done, and asked them to take a look. They apparently pulled off the dash plate, as they thought it could be dust build-up on the physical dial plate/control, but that did not work. They told me if I wanted them to fix it, they would need to spend a significant amount of time pulling apart the dash and temperature system to find the problem. They also did am electronic code read and nothing came up.
Has anyone heard about something like this? Ideally, I would like to fix this myself, but am at the point that I will pay the $000's of dollars likely needed to solve this problem. Any thoughts would be much appreciated!!
Thanks.
