Your ever notice that the auto climate control in Ford products are very similar to ours?? I remember riding in a Crown Vic taxi once, and I just kept staring at the climater control, wondering why. Then, I recently saw a picture of a Lincoln LS with that climate control and then I realized that seems to be from the same company that makes ours. The buttons have the same icons and so does the LED display. We have AMB for the oustide temp, whereas Ford prefers the word EXT (external).

It also looks like only one company on the planet makes moonroofs for every carmaker. The Moonroof in my mother's mercedes E420 was very very similar to mine. Buttons and all.

Just some thoughts to share,

DW

 

i don't have climate control.. my cousin does.. but i hear its confused i hear it doesn't know what it wants to do.. and it just looks pretty

any truth in that?

 

Nope - The system works perfect.

On another note, do you think Nissan actually makes the wheels, gauges, struts, bearings, windows, paint ect...... for our cars?







Hint - It's called sub-contracting.

 

Could this be from a 97? I've heard some un-reliability stories about that auto climate control.

The 98s and later have a better one

DW

 

yup.. 97 SE

 

I understand the sub-contracting. Nissan probably only makes the engine and the body. What I was remarking on was how global that sub-contracting has become.

DW

 

yup just like our fuel pump's are the same as the 2nd Gen DSM
and the 5th Gen uses hte mustang pump

 

Gotta love NAFTA, capitalism, and the free market economy.

 

my CC is kinda screwy. the only cold temperature is 65, and the rest are all really hot. i dont know what to do about it. are they all like this, and do they fix it in 98+?

 

Seems that way. The 98+ auto climate control is quite a bit more sophisticated than the front panel the you see when you look at the 2 of them. The 98 + connects inside the dash thru 2 jacks. Those 2 jacks have around 30 or so wires coming from it. The 97 auto climate control has about 13 wires total.

DW