broken GTV plastic heater vent lever

[Pottree@domain.elided]

In a message dated 03/21/2002 7:00:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:


> Also, there is a little plastic lever that sits under the Heat/AC controls
> that can be moved up and down.  Mine, uh, broke but I still have no idea
> what the heck it does.  Anyone know? And...can it be replaced?
> 
The lever I believe is supposed to channel heated or fresh air to the floor 
or cut off the floor vents and channel all the air to the dash and defrost 
outlets.

Don't bother to fix it, they do not work.  I think they were made by the same 
company that makes the pedestrian-pacifier switches that are not connected to 
the WALK-DON'T WALK lights at intersections.

The good news is that in most Alfas, and in the GTV6 particularly, the 
heating is very good.  The bad news, of course, is that these systems are 
always a little quirky at best and frequently have some screwy design 
notions: you can't turn off the cold air to the floor in a 75 completely; you 
can't blow heat out of the center of a newer spider w/o putting on the second 
(AC) fan (but in ours this does deliver heat - if you like it in your face); 
the GTV6 was not designed to deliver either heat or AC through the eyeballs, 
only ext. air; you are supposed to close the defrost vents when using the AC, 
but in test after test, it works BETTER if you leave them open and spin them 
around to blow into the cabin (away from the windshield); in the both our 
GTV6 and 75, you could get head or fresh air from the dash only if the fan is 
on to push it out, but in the spiders some air will push its own way through 
unaided...

'Tis pretty minor in comparison to the DRIVING peculiarities of even some 
very popular vehicles from other makers.

Or, as they used to say in Boston's North End (Norda Ent), "Nontcha Warry!"

Charlie
LA, CA, USA
CONVENTION'S COMING!

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