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Being a Townie owner of just one week I am finding this site very informative. My purchase is a 1991 super extra 2.0TD 4X4.
Q, When pressing any of the three buttons Hot, Cold & ice the box functions yet when removing my finger the button releases, without touching the OFF button.
Can anyone help and also describe how to gain access to the mechanism / solaniod that engage the buttons until OFF is pressed. - (#191) John Hardman, 24 May 01

sounds like the latching mechanism is clogged up with grease and fluff. According to the parts cd, the side panels come off after releasing some screws. Perhaps the carpet needs folded back first?
HTH - (#195) david miller, 25 May 01

I have had time for another look, taking the side panel of again and using a torch and mirror too look up inside the deep skirt around the box top. This revealed the bottom of a screw, looking back on top of the switch panel their was no sign of the screw head. To reveal the screw I lifted off the glued black plastic nameplate from around the buttons. As a side issue Ice, Cold and Hot are in English and not Japanese? Removing the screw allowed me to lift out the switch panel, access to the switches was still denied by a clipped in circuit board. That’s as far as I have got because their appears to be no way of removing the circuit board without causing damage to it, plus the dealer who I purchased the car from has promised to get it working so I’ll just leave it to them!! - (#285) John Hardman, 7 Jun 01