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BMW 316i Air Conditioning Control Unit Q. Hello Vincent, I have a 1996/7 BMW 316i, automatic transmission, Saloon (Dolphin) engine size 1800cc, 55,000 kilometers, fuel injection, ABS brakes. air conditioned. Recently my air conditioning control unit started going off and on intermittently. My mechanics say such a problem require the unit to be replaced. He had interrogated the diagnostic system.

Is it possible there is something that can be done to rectify. Because of this failure the defogging system of the windscreen is also not working. Please advise.

Humphrey
Nairobi, Kenya

A. If the Control Assembly is bad, there is no way to repair it. But before I go ahead and replace the Control Assembly I would check the connections to the Control Assembly. BMW is known for their terminals getting loose and causing all kinds of intermittent problems.