2010 Fusion with Dual Climate Control

[fusion35]

I have a question that I am hoping some other owners with the dual climate control system may be able to answer. My question is whether or not the passenger side control works without someone sitting in the passenger seat. From my experience in my Fusion it does not do anything unless someone is actually sitting there. I have had other cars with dual climate control and the passenger side control worked whether someone was sitting there or not. There is no mention of this in the owners manual as normal operation. Thanks.

[DaveM]

I have a question that I am hoping some other owners with the dual climate control system may be able to answer. My question is whether or not the passenger side control works without someone sitting in the passenger seat. From my experience in my Fusion it does not do anything unless someone is actually sitting there. I have had other cars with dual climate control and the passenger side control worked whether someone was sitting there or not. There is no mention of this in the owners manual as normal operation. Thanks.

On our hybrid it does NOT work unless someone is sitting in the seat. And each time someone sits in the seat it has to be manually turned back on if no one sat in the seat last time car was started. Stupid but thats the way Ford made it.

[jwillum]

On our hybrid it does NOT work unless someone is sitting in the seat. And each time someone sits in the seat it has to be manually turned back on if no one sat in the seat last time car was started. Stupid but thats the way Ford made it.

I have a 2010 Sport with the dual climate control. The question intrigued me enough to go out to the garage and see for myself how it works as I really hadn't tried. With just myself in the driver's seat, I was able to turn on the passenger control and set it to a different temp than the driver's side. At this time, the driver's side was at 72º and the passenger side was on 76º. I then turned the car off and restarted it and the temperature settings for both sides were still there. I have the non-nav controls.

Edited March 9, 2010 by jwillum

[rpreuss]

I have a 2010 Sport with the dual climate control. The question intrigued me enough to go out to the garage and see for myself how it works as I really hadn't tried. With just myself in the driver's seat, I was able to turn on the passenger control and set it to a different temp than the driver's side. At this time, the driver's side was at 72º and the passenger side was on 76º. I then turned the car off and restarted it and the temperature settings for both sides were still there. I have the non-nav controls.

 

Fusion owners must be alike. I did the same thing last night with my FFH. Same results. Just me in the car, set a different temp, and it remembered the settings the next day with just me in the car.

[Rodeo]

I have a 2010 Sport with the dual climate control. The question intrigued me enough to go out to the garage and see for myself how it works as I really hadn't tried. With just myself in the driver's seat, I was able to turn on the passenger control and set it to a different temp than the driver's side. At this time, the driver's side was at 72º and the passenger side was on 76º. I then turned the car off and restarted it and the temperature settings for both sides were still there. I have the non-nav controls.

I would have been really surprised to hear anything different. Why add extra sensors that arent really needed. Who cares if you have a passenger or not. Apparently FORD thinks this way too.

 

(And its the way it should be anyway.)

Edited March 9, 2010 by Rodeo

[akirby]

I would have been really surprised to hear anything different. Why add extra sensors that arent really needed. Who cares if you have a passenger or not. Apparently FORD thinks this way too.

 

(And its the way it should be anyway.)

 

Ford already knows whether there is a passenger or not. That's required for the passenger side airbag.

[DaveM]

Fusion owners must be alike. I did the same thing last night with my FFH. Same results. Just me in the car, set a different temp, and it remembered the settings the next day with just me in the car.

On yours when a passenger sits in the seat do you have to manually turn on his temp function? I do first time but as long as there is a passenger in the seat each time I start car it remembers he is sitting there and displays his personal temp. If I start car without a passenger it no longer shows and when passenger again sits in car he/she needs to again touch either the up/down display or touch duel on the thouchscreen as it disengauges the settings. Does yours do the same?

[jwillum]

On yours when a passenger sits in the seat do you have to manually turn on his temp function? I do first time but as long as there is a passenger in the seat each time I start car it remembers he is sitting there and displays his personal temp. If I start car without a passenger it no longer shows and when passenger again sits in car he/she needs to again touch either the up/down display or touch duel on the thouchscreen as it disengauges the settings. Does yours do the same?

I had the temps set at two different settings, turned off the car and then restarted it. With no one in the passenger seat, it remembered what I had it set to before I turned off the car. So, yes, mine still showed the same temperature with no one in the passenger seat. I had to disengage the passenger temperature manually to get it to forget it. And, no, someone sitting in the passenger seat will not automatically engage the passenger temperature. However, once you turn it on, it should not be forgetting it. I have a 2010 Fusion and a 2009 Edge with dual climate controls and they both work that way.

Edited March 9, 2010 by jwillum

[dee123]

There is a service messege from ford regarding 2010 fusions with electronic climate control. The passenger side will have the same output temp. as the driver side, unless someone is sitting in the passenger seat. Normal operation.

[rpreuss]

There is a service messege from ford regarding 2010 fusions with electronic climate control. The passenger side will have the same output temp. as the driver side, unless someone is sitting in the passenger seat. Normal operation.

 

I guess my FFH didn't read that message. Or it was a change in the second build. My brother's FFH, built in October, 2010, has a cancel cruise control on the second button on the left of the steering wheel and the latest V2 of the Navteq maps.

 

They may have changed the climate control system rulest since mine was built, but it behaves exactly as jwillum. :headscratch:

[gluon]

On my 2010 FFH, when the passenger climate control is on because a passenger is present, when I turn off the car and then later restart it, the passenger climate control is on but after a bit it goes off when no passenger is present.

[jwillum]

On my 2010 FFH, when the passenger climate control is on because a passenger is present, when I turn off the car and then later restart it, the passenger climate control is on but after a bit it goes off when no passenger is present.

That's something I haven't checked. I will go set the passenger temperature now and then turn the car off and see what happens when I leave for work in the morning.

[jwillum]

That's something I haven't checked. I will go set the passenger temperature now and then turn the car off and see what happens when I leave for work in the morning.

I started up the car this morning and it showed 72º for the driver and 70º for the passenger, just like I set it last night. Twenty minutes later, with no one ever being in the passenger seat, it still showed 72º for the driver and 70º for the passenger.

[bdwells]

On our hybrid it does NOT work unless someone is sitting in the seat. And each time someone sits in the seat it has to be manually turned back on if no one sat in the seat last time car was started. Stupid but thats the way Ford made it.

I'll bet since you have the hybrid version Ford did that make the car more energy efficient when there isn't anyone sitting there. On my 2010 SEL it works whether someone is sitting there or not.