A/ C not working, or is it?

[mdoyle]

I also have an 03 and noticed the same thing. When I select a temperature and run it on "auto" it cools just fine, but trying to the same thing manually yields hot air.

I wouldn't say it's operating as designed, but the O3's do have a couple of quirks related to programming, (auto-volume and air ride compressor for example) so it's possible that's common.