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I start up the car in the morning after sitting all night, the temp outside is 35 degrees or so fahrenheit. Like any car after the engine briefly warms up, the air conditioner comes on and nicely warms up the car's interior (A/C set to full auto, temp dials set to 70 degrees, straight up). No problem so far.
I drive 20 or 30 minutes and stop the car, turn off the engine, exit the vehicle, run an errand and return to the car within two or three minutes.
When I start up the car, despite the temp still being 35 degrees out, it being cloudy, and the car's interior being cold, the A/C pumps out, more accurately BLASTS out cold air. It continues to do this despite the engine being fully warmed up and despite me freezing. It continues to do so for about 10 minutes of driving as if it were fighting a blazing sun in the middle of a Phoenix summer. After 10 minutes it slowly starts to blow slower and then finally switches over to blowing heat like it normally should. After that it is fine...until I turn it off again.
The cold air is coming out of the dash vents mostly, but also out of the floor and window vents also.
I have tried re-punching the auto button...no effect. I have tried turning down the blower manually...it works to slow the fan down but does not change the fact that it is still blowing cold air. Turning the temp up to the 3:00 position doesn't even do anything. Although, turning to the full up position (the last red line) did manage to make heat come out, but then I turned it back down one notch and it was back to blasting cold air.
The problems has been around a while...I thought it might go away or "heal" itself. No luck. Any ideas??? Thanks.
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