I have a 2011 LR4 that I bought used from Florida. It Had 40K miles on it when I bought it 3 years ago and now has about 60K miles. I live in the lowcountry of South Carolina where summer temperatures are often above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and it's ALWAYS humid since we're on an island. Because of this my climate control ***** have started to "deteriorate". They became stick to the point that I didn't even want to touch them and every time my dogs rode in the car even their hair was the first thing to stick to the *****. So I called the Land Rover dealership and they told me that I would have to replace the entire climate control unit itself at a cost of $800 for just the unit. I did a little poking around and found that to not be true. So It turns out, if you are gentle enough, you can remove these ***** by simply pulling and putting pressure on the right area as you are getting them to release. I took them off and started with some Goo Gone project prep and a tooth brush head. This by itself didn't do much. I have the water heater at my house turned up all the way so it's SCALDING hot. I found that with some dish gloves to not burn myself, if I sprayed the goo gone on the ***** and then ran it under the hot water while scrubbing with a rag, that this stickiness is simply some poor coating that comes off and leaves you with a nice new-looking ****. I'm going to try to attach the photos that I took.

 

Thanks for the tip. I too am having the same problem with my 2010 LR4. I came up with the same search results that stated the complete climate control assembly needed replaced. I will attempt the method that you used.
Thanks In Advance.

 

Can you elaborate more on the removal process? Are you squeezing the rings are prying them in a specific location?

 

 

I went down the same path to discover they were not available to purchase individually. However my hot water/dish soap/scrub experiment left me with sticky *****. I'll give the goo-gone a shot.

For @bahnburner, it's pretty simple, you just pull them off while applying gentle pressure in the middle. They do make a slight snapping noise on the way out that could be disconcerting, but mine were fine.

 

 

just don't use the Clorox type wipes. My nephew thinks wiping everything with this stuff is a cleaner. Well, after he was done, no lights. He had dripped enough Clorox wipe in the headlight switch that it did everything but melt the copper in the switch. Plus blowing relays. Took him a couple days to trace it all down.

 

 

The Range Rover Sport that I just picked up has the 'Sticky" heater/ac *****. I saw on Ebay that you can by a set of ***** for the unit for $29. That is my next purchase. Phil