FRANKKIE

I cant understand this at all.
I set the heat to warm up the floor area from the Mode button.
But yet it blows on top aswell? Really frustrating.

Jss1

Try saying "Climate control floor". There is a separate voice command "Climate control floor and defrost". Should work.

Ken1997TL

Because its not a bi-level system. Some of the older Hondas had a lever that would let you blow hot air on your feet and cold air(assuming it was cold outside) for your face.

My '88 Accord had that feature.

need4spd

Yes, I noticed that some time ago, and checked the owners manual, it shows that when in the HEAT ONLY mode, that it STILL blows air out the two SIDE vents.

The only way I can think to stop this, is that you must individually close the two outside vents using the dial next to them.

Kind of lame that you have to do that manually, especially since the fan turns on before the heat comes up and blows cold air on your left hand and face.

Poor design, is this a honda thing, as I have not seen it on other cars?

rets

Top?

If you talk about the vent underneath your windshield, it could be normal.

If you set only "floor", it will blow a little from there.
If "floor/windshield", it will have "middle" blow.
If "windshield", it will have full power of blow out of those vents.

All cars should be the same. I guess.

Or you talked about something else...

Ken1997TL

Need4speed, its a Honda thing, goes back to the late 70's.

detroi_TL

If you are in pure floor mode (stickman with arrow at his feet) then there should be NO air coming out of the CENTER face vents. You should have air coming out of the side-window deffogers (they're right above the the side face vents, aimed at the window), be glad these are there otherwise you would be driving with fogged up windows.

You should also have a small bleed coming out of the side face vents. This side face bleed strategy is very common and is implemented on GM and Toyota vehicles also, it's not only a Honda thing. Some people refer to this feature as the "hand warmer", try taking your glove off and placing your hand next to the vent.

I will admit that the bleed on the TL seems a little excesive in high blower, I only run in Auto mode so it hardly ever reaches high blower.

fsttyms1

the air should still come out the side vents a little though

jime

The side vents operate independently (manually) by design.

The TL side vents operate exactly like my 1995 Acura Legend and my 1998 Acura RL. They are manually controlled so that you can blow hot air on your hands in the winter, or close off your air conditioner vent in the summer.

vtechbrain

The climate control only controls the center vents. that why the side vets have dials to open and close them by hand.

jmichaelp

I have the same question.

I have the stick-man with the arrow set to blow on the feet. There's A LOT of air blowing out of the windshield vent - something's not right...

rets

It's right... the floor-only mode has this blow from the Windshield vent, too. This is to prevent the fog into your windows...

USCGMoose

I doesn't bother me at all. I'm happy the window doesn't fog. In fact I've never had a problem with the window fogging. I'm pretty happy about that.

jmichaelp

That makes sense, except that there's a lot of air blowing up there! More air than is needed to keep fog off the windshield & it's VERY NOISY