Help With Climate Control?

[Jackds3]

I am new here so bare with me...

I have a DS3 Dstyle Special Edition 1.6 VTI 2013 model, and i have this climate control..



I was wondering if there is anyway to upgrade to this climate control as it is much nicer looking



Many thanks!

[DaveB]

What you have is manual air conditioning. To change to the automatic system would, I think, be a very expensive job as you would need change things on the heater unit, probably a complete new unit - your control uses cables to operate the various settings, the auto system uses servo motors. (I stand to be corrected on this!)

[StevenRB45]

As well as the above (which I can't confirm not having taken a DS3 to bits but is a possibility) climate control has additional interior parts. First you'll have a temperature sensor, not sure where it is in a ds3, the Mazda ones are in the footwells (one a side for dual zone). Also it'll probably have a sunlight sensor which again if similar to the Mazda would be in the little round dome in the dash top near the windscreen. Without a means of monitoring interior temps it'll never work properly if it all.

[Jackds3]

What you have is manual air conditioning. To change to the automatic system would, I think, be a very expensive job as you would need change things on the heater unit, probably a complete new unit - your control uses cables to operate the various settings, the auto system uses servo motors. (I stand to be corrected on this!)

As well as the above (which I can't confirm not having taken a DS3 to bits but is a possibility) climate control has additional interior parts. First you'll have a temperature sensor, not sure where it is in a ds3, the Mazda ones are in the footwells (one a side for dual zone). Also it'll probably have a sunlight sensor which again if similar to the Mazda would be in the little round dome in the dash top near the windscreen. Without a means of monitoring interior temps it'll never work properly if it all.

Thanks, I thought as much!

[lfcrule1972]

One of those mods that seems to be more expensive to retrofit than is worth it ?