AirConditioning Recycle Button Turns Off

[Umai Naa!!]

go for a drive through the M5 tunnel and see if you still think there is a difference between recirc and fresh

Yep.

Even with a carbon activated pollen filter, it still gets fumy on 'fresh'.

FYI, the Caddy uses the same pollen filter as MK5/6 Golf, Jetta, B6-onwards Passat, and Tiguan. Also fits Octavia and Superb.

[wai]

go for a drive through the M5 tunnel and see if you still think there is a difference between recirc and fresh

I have no doubt as it is akin to following a diesel belching smoke, and yes, I have been through the M5 tunnel and it is bad. A pollen filter will not do too much, and any freshener just means you are breathing in scented pollution.

When I was talking about traffic, I was talking about surface traffic.

On the M5 tunnel, it should have better ventilation. If a workplace were to provide such an environment for its workers, it would be closed down.

[skywalka]

I have read the manual already. There is nothing about recirculation being turned off.

I should have mentioned it is an intermittent problem.
@wai Maybe it is time dependent.

If so this is a terrible feature. I've been driving for 20 years & never had to be saved from CO2 levels.

[johnnie5]

I have no doubt as it is akin to following a diesel belching smoke, and yes, I have been through the M5 tunnel and it is bad. A pollen filter will not do too much, and any freshener just means you are breathing in scented pollution.

When I was talking about traffic, I was talking about surface traffic.

On the M5 tunnel, it should have better ventilation. If a workplace were to provide such an environment for its workers, it would be closed down.

yes and even with surface traffic you get pollution pumped into the car since car exhausts are low to the ground at the rear of the car

give me old school closed recirc vent anyday

[nicholas787]

Have you got the AC on full cold..?

I find that if the temp is set all the way to COLD, it then sets itself to re-circulate..

Anything warmer and you have to manually turn it on every time you get in

[skywalka]

Have you got the AC on full cold..?

I find that if the temp is set all the way to COLD, it then sets itself to re-circulate..

Anything warmer and you have to manually turn it on every time you get in

It's been winter so rarely on full cold.

It usually stays on so I don't think to check it every time. I only notice it's off when I breathe in the dirty exhaust of a vehicle in front.

[nicholas787]

It's been winter so rarely on full cold.

Thanks for that… It's winter for me too.

[brad]

I think the difference is that one user has AC on & the other has it off???

[johnnie5]

Have you got the AC on full cold..?

I find that if the temp is set all the way to COLD, it then sets itself to re-circulate..

Anything warmer and you have to manually turn it on every time you get in

when i had my 07 caddy it was either on full cold or full hot

it didnt change the fact that it always went back to fresh air