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Aux Heater
It was cold this morning so I thought I'd try out the auxiliary heater for the first time. I switched it on manually and it made healthy sounding noises like it was revving up ..... air was pumping through the vents etc. I checked up on it a few times, listening outside the car and could clearly hear the fan running away. It ran for 30 minutes or so.
I was rubbing my hands together as I left the house at the thought of getting into a nicely warmed up car. But it was cold. The temperature felt just like nothing had happened. Any ideas ? Have I done something wrong or missed something ?
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Been done to death this one but Have you got Aux heating or Aux vent? What does it say on your screen? I did the same as you last year only to find a cold car
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The screen says Aux Vent. Is there a difference ?
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If it says Aux vent then its just cool ventilation. If it states Aux heating then its remote heating. You can buy a £35 maplin relay and remote that will enable yo to switch the heater on from say the house on those cold mornings.
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If my OBC screen reads Aux Ventilition and I am able to set the time at which it comes on and I have the unit under the bonnet and also the exhaust under the car (quite cute I may add) does that mean that I can wire up the remote kit available from Maplins or do I need the unit recoded at a dealers first. In other words does the OBC screen read 'Aux Heating' rather than 'Aux Ventilation' when recodoed. I have read sooo many posts everywhere about this but I am still unsure whether having the unit means that the vehicle has the heating facility or not.
Last edited by The Squeeze; 01-18-2012 at 05:19 AM. |
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I don't know what you mean by an 'aux heater'. Is this different/separate to the climate control?
Was just wondering if you had the vent wheel in the centre of the dash in the right place, ie in the hot position? I forgot I had them in the cold position one year, then the cold snap came, thought my heater matrix (or something) was buggered then realised I had to turn the wheel to the three red dots instead of the blue!
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Could you feel and smell exhaust fumes from the left side of the car?There is a small exhaust outlet there.....
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Looks like it's a cooler I've got as opposed to a heater, based on thedweeb's post. Fat lot of good that is in the winter then ey ??!
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When does it switch from Vent to Heat? Is that depending on the outside temp or do I miss something here?
Regards, H |
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