DUFF HEATER

[russel]

WIPERS AND NOW MY HEATER...WHAT NEXT!
MY HEATER RECENTLY JUST CEASED TO WORK ONE BLOODY COLD MORNING. ALL THE LIGHTS WERE WORKING AND FUSES APPEARED OK BUT NO SOUND OF A FAN IN SIGHT!.
SPOKE TO THE DELAER WHO SAID IT COULD BE THE CONTROL BOX WHICH LIVES ABOVE THE FEET IN THE PASSENGER FOOT WELL APPARENTLY SOMETIMES THE CABLE PLUG COMES OUT THE BACK. AFTER LOOKING AT IT LAST WEEKEND (GIVING IT A POKE) I STARTED MY CAR UP AND SURE ENOUGH THE HEATER KICKED ON. FOLLOWING DAY WENT TO WORK EVEN HAD TO TURN THE HEATER OFF IT WAS THAT WARM...PARKED UP, THEN I THOUGHT AND JUST GIVE IT ONE MORE BLAST AND GUESS WHAT?.....YIP THE B*****D DIDNT WORK AGAIN...HAS ANYONE COME ACROSS THIS BEFORE? DOES IT NEED ANOTHER POKE?

YOUR FREEZINGLY
RUSS

[yohan]

When I first start up the heater fan won't work until I move the hot/cold control up or down a notch.

[plipton]

Mine needs to have the fan on/off button pressed most times to kick it into life. Also it "forgets" where the heater knob is so occasionally I need to wind it up and down too.

My fan control unit came unstuck and was hanging in the footwell. I had to tyrap it back in place. Connections were OK though.

I suppose as a last resort you could always take a hot water bottle with you

[andyvdg]

Yep, on my vintage of motor vehicle, you need to twiddle the control knobs up and down a short while after the engine has started to get the fans into life. What normally happens is when the heat setting is changed, the fans cut out temporarily whilst the flaps adjust, and then the fans come on. It look like the software doesn't cope very well with startup. Moving the knobs will kick the thing into life.

Hope it's simple as this.

btw all the early cars had the control box fall down into the passenger footwell at some point.

Cheers,

Andy.

[whitey]

2000 Vintage Red Roses don't have this problem

altough my heater control unit did land on my passengers feet on the first day of ownership. Nicely tucked up under some extra carpet by the factory on it first visit home in July 2000

[salty-nlv]

Mine fell down last summer in the heat when teh carpet glue became unstuck. I shouted at my passsenger and blamed them but then saw most of may carpet was beginning to curl up due to the heat so had to apologise.

[graham66]

whitey said:

2000 Vintage Red Roses don't have this problem altough my heater control unit did land on my passengers feet on the first day of ownership. Nicely tucked up under some extra carpet by the factory on it first visit home in July 2000

Agreed, although my heater thingy stayed put for about a year!!

It must be what we paid the extra for in the Red Rose pack

Graham

[Lee02]

according to WW the heater controls along with most other controls/dials work by stepper motors so they do not reset automaticaly .Hence the reason you need to move the dial up.