Search the Community

2013 Hybrid with 98k. It blows out warm air only on HI setting. This is the same in electric or gas mode. If I lower the temperature to 85 or below, the temperature of the air coming out is drastically cooler. Any suggestions? Thank you

I read that the new 2014 Fusion has a heated steering wheel. That is the one option the Fusion didn't have in 2013 that I really wanted. Does anyone know if this could be retrofitted back into a 2013 Fusion?

Please ignore, Just found the exact same question posed with an answer. If I could delete I would. Thanks! Recently got a bit chilly here in Texas, about 43F. Normally keep the climate control on Auto and the temp set on 72. Started her up and headed on down the road. Outside Temp on the screen showed at 43. Noticed the air blowing strongly through the upper vents, AC light not on but for darn sure was blowing AC through the upper vents. Tried increasing the temp but the only thing that happened was the fan started blowing AC harder. Increased heat until it went to HI. Once it hit HI then air circulation went to the floor and heat started coming out of the vents. I then started to decrease temp and as soon as I got off of HI it started blowing through the upper vents on AC again on high fan. I manually decreased the fan speed and of course it went off of Auto. Decreased temp and AC started to blow again. Normally doesn't really get cold enough to run the heat but for several weeks a year it'll get into the 20'sand 30's at night and you do really need the heat. Researched this forum and saw several Climate Control posts that were similar but not really the same, I tried the master reset function but no joy. Anyone have any idea what's happening and how to fix? TIA. Marc

The country has seen lots of temperature extremes in the last few years, it is happening right now. Long winters have shown us what can happen to our FFH's mileage and some have devised ways to help optimize the mpg's, like engine block heaters, foam in the grill openings, covers in front of the grill, etc. This last two weeks has been extremely hot where I live, in fact, yesterdays 'worst weather in the US' cartoon on The Weather Channel website was my small town - HOT. Those of us in the hot areas have not written as much about our FFH's mpg's during hot weather because that threshold is pretty high. Our HVB's are cooled by bringing cool air from the inside of the car and blowing it over the HVB. This only helps when the car is in motion with the A/C on, parked and sitting in the sun the entire car heat sinks and the HVB gets very hot. I saw 108F on my FFH's dash outside temp display yesterday, inside my garage it was 100F. From personal experience and from other posts here the heat really starts dropping the FFH mpg's at around 95F and gets exponentially worse as the heat increases. Yesterday's driving had the ICE running under load most of the time charging the batteries, powering the car and A/C - our 22 mile trip in the afternoon showed only 29 mpg's. My last tank of gas netted 33 mpg's, pretty low. When us early adopters first bought these cars almost two years ago that mpg range used to confuse (and irritate) me, why does it get 50 mpg sometimes and only 29 mpg's at other times? We've learned and know the HVB is less functional in temperature extremes, it's the nature of the beast. Now I understand why this phenomena happens and just ignore it, the weather will change. - Side note: My brother lives in Palm Springs where summer temperatures above 115F are not unusual, his VW Golf TDI does not get these extreme mpg ranges.