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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/