Climate Control has mind of it's own

This topic has been raised before, but for the life of me I am unable to find any threads on the issue.

I have a problem with my climate control unit. The unit appears to be running correctly, and returns no error codes, however, the unit changes the set temperature all by itself.
For example, it the internal temperature was set to 23 degrees celcius, unless I was holding the down arrow on the temperature adjustment the set temp would start increasing all the way to maximum, as if I were pushing the up arrow on the temperature control.

Has anyone else come accross this problem? Surely you have. Anyone know of a way to fix the problem, as I'm getting fed up with the piece of paper jammed in the temperature setting lever/button.

P.S. I've also come to notice that the problem comes and goes depending on humidity and outside temperature.

HELP HELP HELP!!!

Stressed SVXer

[paddlesnz]

Originally Posted by MisanthropyV

This topic has been raised before, but for the life of me I am unable to find any threads on the issue.

I have a problem with my climate control unit. The unit appears to be running correctly, and returns no error codes, however, the unit changes the set temperature all by itself.
For example, it the internal temperature was set to 23 degrees celcius, unless I was holding the down arrow on the temperature adjustment the set temp would start increasing all the way to maximum, as if I were pushing the up arrow on the temperature control.

Has anyone else come accross this problem? Surely you have. Anyone know of a way to fix the problem, as I'm getting fed up with the piece of paper jammed in the temperature setting lever/button.

P.S. I've also come to notice that the problem comes and goes depending on humidity and outside temperature.

HELP HELP HELP!!!

Stressed SVXer

This is a very common problem on the non-US digital display climate control units. The problem also gets worse and becomes more frequent.

It has been discussed many times on the Japanese SVX owners site. Some have had success with replacing the micro-switches for the up/down on the temperature control button. There was also a guy on the Japanese auction site who claimed he knew how to fix it and was charging Y10,000 to share the info.

Subaru's response in Japan has been that the circuit board is faulty and can only be fixed by replacing the whole front control unit. Of course, they refuse to accept any liability for the problem. Current cost is around Y90,000.

When mine became faulty, I complained loudly to the local Subaru dealer in Japan and finally got a new unit for Y60,000.

Sorry I can't give you any better news.

[lhopp77]

If it is only the climate control unit, the US units should work. They sell for fairly cheap prices on Ebay, but of course, they are in Fahrenheit degrees.

Lee