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Hey Jeff! What's new? I'm bottling a batch of Beer next Wednesday, it might be worth your while to plan a flight over sometime soon! How are the 'Holidays' treating you? Any snow over there? Here we've been enjoying the typical December weather: 8-10 degrees in the day and sunny 3 out of 5 days. It's nice but I do miss snow. Hey check out the slick html on my latest auctions! http://cgi6.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&useri d=vw1500e I really think I'm clever at times. Talk to you soon! Andre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Palmer" <jpalmer@mts.net> To: "Type 3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [T3] heater upgrade > I never understood why VW didn't put fans in their vehicles. I also never > understood why the gas heater in my 73 Type II Safari was in the back. All > my passengers would sit back there with the heater. > > How do all you guys in the northwest do it? Don't your windshields fog up > something fierce? I get next to no air out of my defroster. Or are my > vents plugged up somehow? > > Jeff > 69 notchback at > north of north dakota > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Merritt" <gregm@vwtype3.org> > To: "Type 3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org> > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 5:42 PM > Subject: Re: [T3] heater upgrade > > > > > > > > > Well, truth be told, I did live in NY... A cold day I > > > would consider in the single digits to teens (not > > > > O.k., that qualifies as cold in my book. Where I live now, most > > years there are *no* nights that reach freezing or colder. When people in > > this sort of climate talk about VW heaters being great, well, ten degrees > > above freezing isn't a very challenging environment for a heater. (In > > fact, a sweater will do very nicely, thank-you-very-much.) > > > > One thing about driving a VW around in the kind of temperatures > > you describe, in my exerience -- highway driving really is the best thing > > if you actually want to warm up. Puttering around town at 5F, it's gonna > > be a very long time before you break a sweat. > > > > Another terrible side effect of bad heater channels and a beat up > > car, is that if water is getting in where it shouldn't, the heaters can > > blow wet air all around, which can fog/ice the inside of your windows; > > tends to make things worse rather than better. I spent many mornings > > scraping ice off my windshield... the *inside* of my windshield, that is, > > as I drove down the road... > > > > -Greg > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/