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First winter with my 2014 Fusion Hybrid. Noticed that my heater blower will not start blowing until car gets up to a certain temperature. I don't know what that temperature is. Problem is that ICE sometimes shuts off before the heater blower starts running. This is bad if trying to defrost car in winter. Car will not defrost or heat up. Only solution I found is to force ICE to run by driving it and this sometimes takes 5 or 6 miles before the heater blower fan will start working. I can often feel warm air at the vents but I cannot get the the blower to run. I tried auto, max defrost and all the manual controls I know to try and force the blower to run when it is cold but haven't been able to to get it to blow until car is fully warmed up. Doesn't seem to be a problem with temperature is above freezing or when the blower fan starts to run. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks for your help.

I posted about this a while ago in another thread, but I think it's time to create a sseparate thread for it because this is now happening more frequently. I pretty much always have the climate control on Auto, temps set to 72, with AC either on or off. Sometimes when I press the radio "On" button to turn on the radio, the climate control resets itself in various ways. The last time I noticed the Max Defrost (left-most light) was on and of course the fan goes to high. At other times (I think) other items turn on with other lights. It's easy to reset back to Auto and turn off what I don't want on, but since it's happening more frequently I'd like to get to the bottom of it. I can't recreate it on demand. It might not happen for a few days, or maybe two or three times in one day, but still not near 50% of the times I press the radio On button. It's never happened when turning the radio off. Any ideas? I have MFT, no Nav, the "normal" (not Sony) radio.

Has anyone experienced either of these: Suddenly yesterday the touch controls for climate control and audio (SE model, not Sony) stopped beeping when touched. They always beeped before when you touched them, but not any more. Is there a setting in MyFordTouch to fix this? Then, today, my A/C started acting buggy. It will only blow cold (ore even cool) air when set to "LO" If I bump it to even 60, it starts blasting hot air. Not lukewarm air, but hot air. Crazy stuff . . . Have an appointment to bring it in on Thursday. . .

I posted this data as a response to a question I received in the "Fuel Mileage" topic category, but I wanted it to be listed in the "Climate Control" topic category as well, since this is a more appropriate place for this data. Over the course of several days, I have monitored the A/C power draw on the MyView gauge, and the behavior was not at all what I had expected to see. So to begin with, the A/C power draw data for in the morning when I leave for work, when the temps are in the 85°-93° range in my garage (outside temp is actually around 75°-80°), the A/C power draw climbs immediately to about 2.5 kW, no matter whether I am in complete "Auto" mode or in semi-manual mode or in Max A/C mode. It stays at that initial maximum draw for only about 1-2 minutes, and then over the course of about another 1 minute, it drops to a final level fluctuating between 0.4-0.6 kW, and stays at the same low level for rest of the duration of my 30 minute commute. Even if I change the temp or fan speed or air flow path, there is no effect on the A/C power draw, no matter whether I am at the initial high draw or at the final low draw. This was the surprising part for me. Now if I change to Max A/C mode after reaching the final low draw (0.4-0.6 kW), there will be no immediate effect on the A/C power draw. But after about 1 minute, the power draw will very gradually start climbing, and after several minutes of this Max A/C mode, when I can no longer stand it anymore due to the excessive noise, air flow, and coolness, it has only increased the power draw by about 1 kW to about 1.5 kW. I don't know if power draw while in Max A/C mode would keep climbing since I am not able to endure the Max A/C mode any longer after I have reached my limits of endurance. So now for the A/C power draw data for my return trip from work, when the ambient temps are at true desert-level temps. For my drive home from work, when the outside temp is around the 107°-110°, and with my FFH having been parked in the shade, the power draw curve over time is basically the same as I mentioned before, with the max power draw peak being immediately as soon as I turn the A/C on, and the final low power draw being reached a few minutes later. But the difference during these afternoon high temps of the day is that the max initial power draw is about 3.5 kW for about 2-4 minutes, and then the final low draw is slightly higher, fluctuating between 0.6-0.8 kW. The A/C power draw behavior I saw when I have been parked in the sun at 105° is that the peak draw was around 4.5-5 kW for about 2-4 minutes, and the final low draw was the same 0.6-0.8 kW draw that I saw when I started with my FFH in the sshade. To reiterate, I basically saw no difference in the power draws that I saw over the course of several days that could be directly attributable to the varying A/C modes that I had selected. The only variable that seemed to affect the A/C power draws, whether it be the initial peak draw or the final leveled-off draw was the temp inside the car, which was directly correlated to the outside temp and whether my FFH was parked in the sun or in the shade. I monitored the A/C power draw while using various climate control settings, including "Auto" mode with various temp settings between 72° and 80°, and including various semi-auto settings, by changing the fan speed, the air distribution settings, along with changing the set temps, and even using Max A/C, and I did not see any immediate change in the A/C power draw when I changed any of those settings. As I mentioned, the only time I did see any change in power draw was when I left the climate control on Max A/C mode for several minutes after reaching the final low levels, and it would only increase by about 1 kW above the final low draw. Anotber new-to-me observation I have noticed is that there does not seem to be any truly manual mode with my 2014 FFH climate control system since the temp setting is always involved to some degree or another in a semi-auto fashion. Even when the fan is set to a manual, user-specified speed and the air distribution setting is set to a manual, user-specified air vent selection. I have not found any way to not have the temp setting involved in some way, since it always seems to change the output air temp to its own volition. So here is a table summarizing the A/C power draw data, for desert ambient temps, that I have detailed above. Initial Park Condition and Ambient Temp --------------------------------------------- Shade, 85°-93° Shade, 107°-110° Sun, 105° -------------- ---------------- ----------- Initial Peak Draw 2.5 kW 3.5 kW 4.5-5 kW Duration of Peak Draw 1-2 minutes 2-4 minutes 2-4 minutes Final Draw 0.4-0.6 kW 0.6-0.8 kW 0.6-0.8 kW So based on my findings and comments from others in this forum, my BKM (Best-Known Method) that I use now is that I start my summer desert trips in Auto mode, with an initial temp setting of 80°, and then when I start feeling too warm due to the decreasing air temps being output through the mid-level dash vents, I will then drop the temp setting by about 1-2° at a time, which usually eventually ends up stablilizing on a setting in the 74°-76° range. Then, at my final selected auto temp settiing, if my eyes start getting too dried out from the air coming out of the mid-level dash vents, located on either side of the steering wheel which I always leave positioned directly at my face, then I switch the air distribution to be dash vents (middle level) and defrost vents (upper level), thereby being a semi-auto setting. And then I rinse and repeat at the beginning of the next day.

On my 2013 FFH, the Dual control function stays on and turns off with no pattern. The only indication that it is off is that both temps displayed as the same. with Dual on it seems to turn off when the ignition is turned off. But that only happens sometimes. Dealer tried to make it happen with about 20 engine starts and shut off but to no avail. It was on when the car was moved to the lot for pickup. I started the car and the Dual was off. Very annoying as one never knows if it will be on or off.

This may be a silly question, but I couldn't find a definitive answer in the manual or related documentation. I keep the Climate Control on the "auto" setting, meaning it should stay at my selected temperature (let's say 70) inside the car. I've only had my Fusion HyTi since June, so it's only been used during warmer months. I've kept the settings on "auto" with the "A/C" button also selected. So primarily, the air conditioning has been running to keep the car cooler inside than the warmer temps outside the vehicle. Now, we are entering Fall/Winter, where the temps outside have been in the 50s. So my question is this: Do I need to keep that "A/C" button selected when the Climate Control is set to "Auto" during the winter? Will the "auto" portion of the configuration keep the car warm inside (my selected temp of 70) when it is in the 40s or 50s outside, even if the "A/C" button is not selected/lit? Or is there some reason to keep the "A/C" on to maintain a stable internal temp? Does it "hurt" to leave it on -- meaning, will the A/C run and take up more energy? Or, if the button is left on will the A/C simply not be triggered to run anyway if the outside temp is in the 50s and my selected inside climate control temp is 70?