90 festiva heating problems

[wolfggangus31]

i have a problem with my heat in my 90 beastiva. i only have heat on defrost. when i put it on the vents, it blows cold air. please help getting cold out there

[Tom]

Your outside air vent sounds like its being opened.

[c.ganger]

wolfganggus31, I am having the same issue. If tom is right, and I'll try today on my way to work then festies only put heat out of the vents when the system is set to recirculate inside air? I have never been in a car that does that before, but if someone else will confirm it I'll believe it.

chris

[lilred]

mine does the same thing as well as my dads i think it is supposed to be like that

[fastivaca]

That's the way the Festivas are. Heat only comes out of the defrost vents under the windshield and the floor vents.

Fresh air only out of the dash vents.

[festifrank]

yeah festiva are like that

I have a 1992 and it does the same thing

[muscle_Car1]

That's the way the Festivas are. Heat only comes out of the defrost vents under the windshield and the floor vents.

Fresh air only out of the dash vents.

HEHE he's right. They only blow hot air to the floor & defrost.

[packrat427]

Everybodys Festiva here does the same thing !!!

Like Ian said , Hot air will only blow out of the defrost and the floor or mixed , BUT not the dash vents .

[muscle_Car1]

Yeah Alicia said the same thing to me. OHH my heater is broken. I was like :roll: OK i'll go look, since I didn't know what was up when the A/c was removed. Hop in the car on a JY run and it was working fine, to which she said why doesn't it come outta the vents. I told her it just doesn't. I think at ohiostiva someone noticed that also. But the aspires do have heat coming outta the vents. Maybe they can be used for something else besides brake swaps?

[packrat427]

They must have not had the heater box design perfected yet in the Festiva's :lol: :lol:

[muscle_Car1]

Dunno I've never had a problem with it. Always put it on my feet uless the window was fogging then I use the defrost mode.

[wolfggangus31]

so i have to use defrost or the floor vents for heat . thanks guys. now i know

[ericsmith32]

I wonder if the aspire heater setup could be put in the festiva? That way heat would come out of the vents.

[mattswabb]

Same thread every winter

[fastivaca]

Same thread every winter

...and don't forget the "my temperature guage doesn't move" thread that I'm surprised hasn't come up yet