Can't reach drivers side Flap Motors A3 8P

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Hi,

Have someone ever accessed the driver side flap motors from A3 8P without removing the whole dash? We are talking about a regular European driver-side, i changed the V71 flap that was with a mechanical fault and cleaned the V113 AND v159, but i still hear some kind of clicking from the driver side flaps, i would like to clean and test one by one, but its really difficult to access that side, i can't even get the hands on the screws, any suggestion?

Anyway i got a scheme from a russian manual (i don't understand what if says, but i translate and i search the part numbers by doing CTRL+F and works fine) please have a look on the flaps im talking about.

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All this work because 1 year ago i bought this car without any air con, the climatronic was only showing ECON light and my mechanic changed the climatronic, filled the air con and it started to work only on "low temp" mode, but it always trigered me the strange noises i heard inside the air con from the flaps, now i bought a VCDS ran the scan and got like 8 errors where there was 2 mechanical flaps problems, i cleaned one replaced the other, cleared the errors, but now i got 1 single error, that is about running a basic settings to realign everything, that doesn't seem to work with me, i tried almost everything, nothing works with me, when i click to run the test 001 basic settings, it starts to put flaps working for 5 seconds then just stops, the fiels that i see on videos showing the current flap positions say N/A N/A N/A and my climatronic is now with ECON light on, like the old climatronic i had, so i think my old climatronic is good aswell or this one is broken to...

The good new is that the AIR con now runs both cold and hot air, but i still hear flaps all the time clicking non stop... and there is no ERROR for any flap at the VCDS...

Pleaseee helppp meeee im driving crazy.
 
You have to make sure the v71 is positioned correctly or it will not work with the main flap & v113, are the main fan flaps opening & closing when v71 & 113 are in use?
 
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Hey again, still didn't try the battery advice you gave me, will wait for the morning, anyway about v71 and v113 they are all good, on proper position, i already tested them, thats why now i get the heat blowing, the problem is that i cant control foot air for example, because the flap is stuck or something like that. Big headache im around the car for 4 days now, if i could access those driver side flap motors, i would clean them and make sure they work.

thanks for your answers!
 
Can't recall which controls the foot vents, 159 maybe, should all be accessible from either side, have you tested each one individually in vcds?

Holding the motors should tell you which is clicking, I would try to unplug them or the battery, sounds like maybe it's got stuck & jumped a tooth or broken internally, although the teeth plastics are strong in these, speculative.
 
Hey mate,

Today i tried the battery idea you gave me, with no success.
After trying again to run a basic settings it just doesn't run at all, then i tried to individually test some of the ac components, and lot of them appears as n/a N/A N/a, i think that means that there is no communication between VCDS and them? well i dont know, im going to put everything back together im really tired of trying and trying for days, right now it works on cold, and the heat works aswell, so im happy, its just sad i can't make it 100%functional.
 
Vcds is reliable to check these, so it's something else.

Whereabouts are you located?
 
Hi,

Have someone ever accessed the driver side flap motors from A3 8P without removing the whole dash? We are talking about a regular European driver-side, i changed the V71 flap that was with a mechanical fault and cleaned the V113 AND v159, but i still hear some kind of clicking from the driver side flaps, i would like to clean and test one by one, but its really difficult to access that side, i can't even get the hands on the screws, any suggestion?

Anyway i got a scheme from a russian manual (i don't understand what if says, but i translate and i search the part numbers by doing CTRL+F and works fine) please have a look on the flaps im talking about.

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All this work because 1 year ago i bought this car without any air con, the climatronic was only showing ECON light and my mechanic changed the climatronic, filled the air con and it started to work only on "low temp" mode, but it always trigered me the strange noises i heard inside the air con from the flaps, now i bought a VCDS ran the scan and got like 8 errors where there was 2 mechanical flaps problems, i cleaned one replaced the other, cleared the errors, but now i got 1 single error, that is about running a basic settings to realign everything, that doesn't seem to work with me, i tried almost everything, nothing works with me, when i click to run the test 001 basic settings, it starts to put flaps working for 5 seconds then just stops, the fiels that i see on videos showing the current flap positions say N/A N/A N/A and my climatronic is now with ECON light on, like the old climatronic i had, so i think my old climatronic is good aswell or this one is broken to...

The good new is that the AIR con now runs both cold and hot air, but i still hear flaps all the time clicking non stop... and there is no ERROR for any flap at the VCDS...

Pleaseee helppp meeee im driving crazy.

Why don't you want to properly translate the circuit and figure it out? It would be much easier. Use one of the Russian translation services from this review https://pickwriters.com/russian-translation-services and everything will become much clearer. I've done this before with a few articles and manuals, it really makes the process easier.
 

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