A/C Button Light on Auto

[ekohn00]

Worst auto system EVER

so true.

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[Slowpoke]

The Fan speed and intensity of the air conditioning/heat itself is regulated by the computer. If the temperature inside the cabin is dramatically different from your set temperature, it will blast the AC/heat for a few minutes and scale it back the closer to your desired temperature it gets. Once the cabin has reached your set temp it will have the AC or heat operating at a low setting to maintain the appropriate temperature. Only the light on the auto button will illuminate, and AC light and fan speed indicator will not be in play. If you adjust the fan speed it will deactivate auto temp control.

Good explanation

 

[Shots]

....Ac on = light on simple. But that’s not the way it is in the JL with Jeep the AC is running in auto but the light is off so you never really know when it’s on or off in auto. It’s pretty stupid and counterintuitive to me , but I just go with it now.

IDK it makes perfect sense to me. My Ram and Charger both worked exactly the same way, so maybe that's why I wasn't confused by it.
If the AC light is on, you have the AC on. If the Auto light is on, the climate is set to Auto. Pretty simple. I don't see why it matters if the AC, fan or heat is active at any given time if it's maintaining your desired/set temperature.

 

[Zazoh]

Auto is not as advanced as other cars I’ve owned.

I have resorted to just using manual settings - they way god intended.

 

[Sean L]

Don't take this wrong, but that's just silly. Blowing cold air on a cold day no matter what the direction is still a problem.

Except he wasn't referring to a cold day.

 

[ekohn00]

Except he wasn't referring to a cold day.

My bad.....my problem is cold air blows on cold days. He did reference a comment on cold air on a hot day.

 

[Sean L]

My bad.....my problem is cold air blows on cold days. He did reference a comment on cold air on a hot day.

I seem to have the opposite problem as you. I generally Keep my Auto set on 75. Some mornings when the outside temp is around 70 the Jeep will want to heat the cab up to 75 and I have to remember to turn off the auto before that happens.

 

[ekohn00]

UPDATE: So here's what I'm thinking after playing with auto for several weeks. It seems that from start the car will blow whatever temp, so on cold days it blows cold, and hot days, not so cold. It seems to take a long time to get to the auto setting. Every vehicle I've had with auto, from start, it would blow low until it could reach the auto set temp. So my conclusion is jeep's algorithm for auto-temp needs some work.

 

[Shots]

On start up any car won't be instantly hot/cold. It shouldn't take a long time to get to the correct setting, but I wouldn't expect it to immediately be blowing hot/cold.
As for the blower/temp getting to the set temp. I haven't paid that close attention, but it seems that it blows the fan harder at/near the set temp and tapers the fan off when it gets close, rather than blowing arctic air and slowly increasing temp to the setting as the cabin gets closer. I'm not sure though, so I guess I'll have to pay attention next time there is a substantial difference in outside and the desired inside temps.

My bad.....my problem is cold air blows on cold days. He did reference a comment on cold air on a hot day.

Is it blowing cold, or is it relative. I'm not trying to be difficult but I thought my Ram was doing that when I got it (my first vehicle with auto climate). For example, I'd set the temp at 74° in the winter. There was heat blowing for a bit until the cabin temp got to around the set temp. After a while I'd notice a cool breeze and though, "why is it blowing cold air in the winter". As it turns out, I think it may have just seemed cold. If you don't have it blowing directly on you it doesn't feel cool, which leads me to believe it was 74° air blowing out the vent, but on a cold winter day any breeze feels cool.
Just a hunch, and/or possible theory. Yours may be blowing cold air, obviously you know what it actually feels like.

 

[norbert]

I think too, the Wrangler is a difficult car to regulate with the A/C. With a black soft top or even with the hard top, its basically un-insulated.

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