Fan Speed control (Automatic Climate set to OFF)

[Darren MB]

I just recently got my 2012 Golf Wagon TDI. Its loaded. Nice car. Had 3 TDI's out of 4 VWs total over time.
The one thing that is driving me completely insane though is the Automatic climate controls.
I never use them, I turn them off. I like to have the fan on low all the time so I get a small breeze inmy face when I drive. Keep the AC off and the heat setting to low. If I get too cool I turn up the heat setting slightly.

That being said it seems VW Engineers are getting stupid. For some reason when you turn off the automatic climate control it doesn't turn off the fan speed adjustment completely. almost every time you adjust the tempurature setting the fan speed changes. it goes up 90% of the time, usually to a very high setting. So now when you nudge the temurature setting up 1 degree, and your fan is set to 2 out of 7, it often cranks the fan speed up to 6 or 7 and you get a "hair dryer" effect in your face.

This may seem like a stupid thing to complain about, maybe I'm just getting to anal about it.

Does anyone have any logical explaination for this "Intentional Design"? (as per VW dealer).
Does anyone agree with me that this fan speed should not change under any scerario when it is set to manual?

I cannot figure out how any interpretation of "manual" can include something automatically adjusting anything (especailly without any descernable logic, Imean sometimes the fan speed goes up by 1 sometimes it ramps up to 7, and even when you adjust it up 1, down 1 it ends up different)

[Ol'Rattler]

does sound like way to much automation. On my climatic, I usually leave the fan at 1 all the time and if I get cold, I turn the heat up to the detent at 72 degrees and put the fan at 2 or 3. Sometimes, simple is better.

[chittychittybangbang]

That happens when I set the temperature way off ambient. For example, if you want a breeze and it's 71F, set it to 70F, not 60F and with a low fan. You just have to trust the climatronic. I used to dislike it but I've learned to trust it and make small fan adjustments as needed.