we got the heating working in my fasty today :bounce :bounce :bounce :bounce
works very well, nice and hot! pity its a sunny day with good weather in coffs, i wish it was cold and raining
thanks dad :thumb :thumb :P

hehe

I have working heaters in my car, and had totally forgotten about them, till my daughter mentioned how much better the bug woudl be with heat...put them on...and WOW...

yep, she was right...was much better. Pity i didnt even think about it till she said it. We'd been carting around blankets for the kids till then.

And yes, I know...im blonde!

Many people don't have the heaters connected, or even have heater boxes in their air cooled VWs...
I have always had a heater in My VWs.....
I have two new heater boxes in My beetle and it works fine....
with -1C in the morning..... You need something....

If You have heaters always check the Silver foil air hoses in Your Beetle, are connected, as if they come off, the engine loses its cooling air.... very bad....
Always use hose clamps....
between the fan shroud and the heater boxes...

PS.. I have since installed a hose clamp on the RH side hose..

Lee


[ Edited on 12-7-2006 by 68AutoBug ]

my heater just recently got hooked up.....soooo nice!
I find its very fumey though, could that be the paint burning off the new empi "quiet sports" exhaust ?

hmm... speaking of heater channels... on my 69, just took off some padding that surrounds the heater channel tubing under the rear seats, to find black panels (look like replacements, cause there in dam good nick!) But... its thick guaze, like... black metal tubing, with lots of little holes in it!!

Is this for warming the seats?

All these bits have been sealed and the fumes don't smell like exhaust to me....they are more acrid :S

brendan go and see the old man i know he keeps them in stock or use to, if not he can get them for you over night

one of the most simple improvements that actually means something that you can do to your beetle

My heaters work dandy hehe.. so long as I dont turn them off!

Then I cant turn em back on again without somebody fiddling with em underneath...

The solution?... leave the sliding window open in warm weather and drive with the heaters permanantly on!

The heat may be useful this weekend, unless you bring the Ragtop Karina!
-Staggers.

*searches for quizzical eyebrow emoticon*

I don't mean anything like that Keiran!! It's just incase we cruise in her car at night. Although it's Brisbane so we don't really need heaters here!
-Staggers.

hehehehe... yeh...but you know how I love to stir up scandle B-man!

Keep stirring, AND DIGGING!
Hehe you're okay.
-Staggers.

heheh..I'm an evil little prick *resumes digging*

Bla heaters! I like driving my splitty in seven degrees, windows open (the quartervents whistle loudly when shut), skiing gloves and warm jacket on, blanket over the knees like a granny. Keeps you awake at 1am, or maybe that was just 'cause it was the Great Ocean Road.
I do agree they can be nice sometimes. My daily Bay heats quite OK if you're up the front, I don't know what my passengers are always complaining about though. :P
I got really heaps of fumes up front when I put a new muffler on (a typeIV bay). As in, after a few minutes you could SEE the smoke coming out the dash heat vents! I almost had my head out the window to breathe! I never quite figured out why the exhaust air was coming into the heating system on that bus. It stopped after a few minutes, the smells after a few hours.

I have a sort of petrolly aircooled engine bay smell that comes from my heaters all the time, and also sometimes a hot oil smell presumably from the coating of oil on the bottom of the motor from leaking tubes.

It's not overpowering tho... and to be quite honest... I love the aroma!

I just make sure I drive with the sliding window in the back open... to let out a bit of the carbon monoxide that I am sure must be present in the heating air! :duh

Who cares if the back seat pax are cold.... so long as I am toasty up front!