Great - glad to know it's by design.

I'm slowly working the kinks out of the car and just had the CC control unit rebuilt. I thought this behavior was strange before I sent the unit in and that the problem would stop with the rebuild, but it didn't.

Funny that the manual makes no mention of this fact....like so many other things they leave out or include in such a manner as to make it unintelligible.

I guess I was looking at those outlets like they were an extension of the center outlets in the dash - i.e. with the heat on, no airflow from those vents (unless you push the red or blue buttons on the vent assembly).

Thanks for the reply.