Dual Zone climate controls: can't maintain one temp in the winter, never mind 2

[openair]

Has dual zone climate controls where you can set one temp for driver and another for passenger. Yet in the winter it cannot maintain one temperature vertically as there seems to only be one temperature sensor on each side at about chest height. This means that defrosting the front window warms up the upper half of the vehicle enough that when the window is good and I turn on the floor vents they blow cold air trying to cool the temperature near the sensor because it has no sensor to tell it the foot well is still significantly colder.

 

Aka the dual zone climate controls in these vehicles are done so poorly they become a sales gimmick and the overall performance is worse then a non dual system where the same two sensors are placed properly (vertically, heat rises).

Edited December 16, 2017 at 01:01 PM by openair

[muzicman61]

I can't speak as to where the sensors are in the vehicle but in the past with my Focus, my wife was always too hot and i was too cold.  But since I bought the Fusion with the dual climate we've not had an issue.  She sets her heat lower and I set my heat higher and everyone rides in comfort.  I'm very pleased with the system.

[openair]

I don't even need my wife. I am both too hot and too cold at the same time.