Q: Hot air only blows out on passenger side and cold air on driver side. What can it be?

asked by on December 06, 2016

When the car warms up the hot air only blows out on passenger side. Cold air blows out on driver side. What is the problem?

My car has 990000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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