Call me spoiled, but I hate the lack of bi-level air with my old slider controls, as well as the fact that the slider controls stiffen in cold weather and actually makes the sliders so hard to move that I've actually loosened one of the slider knobs when changing the setting.
I know that updating to the 3 round-knob style controls isn't easy, but I've done research into it, and from what I understand, you need to replace the control head (of course), the hvac electrical harness and vacuum harness and the ac/heater housing.
Everything is plug and play except for the ac/heater housing which unfortunately requires pulling the steering column, dash, ac lines, heater core and tons of other goodies to replace.
As I understand it however, all of that is connected to the upper half of the housing and replacing just the lower housing requires removing none of that. My question is, can I just replace my lower housing with the new style lower housing, or do I have to replace the entire housing all-together?
This makes the difference between biting the bullet and doing the swap, or just replacing my slider controls with a new slider control unit (which believe it or not, will cost me as much as all the parts needed for the swap, except for the housing itself).
Of course, if I'm wrong on anything, missing an additional part that will need to be changed, ect, let me know.
I know that updating to the 3 round-knob style controls isn't easy, but I've done research into it, and from what I understand, you need to replace the control head (of course), the hvac electrical harness and vacuum harness and the ac/heater housing.
Everything is plug and play except for the ac/heater housing which unfortunately requires pulling the steering column, dash, ac lines, heater core and tons of other goodies to replace.
As I understand it however, all of that is connected to the upper half of the housing and replacing just the lower housing requires removing none of that. My question is, can I just replace my lower housing with the new style lower housing, or do I have to replace the entire housing all-together?
This makes the difference between biting the bullet and doing the swap, or just replacing my slider controls with a new slider control unit (which believe it or not, will cost me as much as all the parts needed for the swap, except for the housing itself).
Of course, if I'm wrong on anything, missing an additional part that will need to be changed, ect, let me know.