Can anybody tell me why I've got clouds of white smoke bellowing from underneath the rear of my vw sharan, I think it has got something to do with the rear auxiliary heater. It happened once before about a year ago & now it has returned.
Ah, so he serviced the car not the heater?.
Look at this website http://butlertechnik.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; about halfway down you can choose the model heater you've got and see if they do a service kit
They work when the ambient temp drops, on a T4 it's 5°c.
If it's cold enough the aux heater comes on and assists the engine warming up to give decent heaters.
I wouldn't have thought that a bit of condensation would be described as clouds of smoke whereas incomplete heating of the fuel on startup truly is a cloud. It is like a peas-souper - ask Trucker as his glow plug fouled and he was laying down a smoke screen!
Are they all Webasto type aux heaters? We've got one in our old heap of a runabout T-reg petrol Sharan but the car is dying fast (I blame the 50% F0rd influence) but I've never investigated it. I will now
It is smoke. No doubt about it. Going to have a closer look this weekend. The misses was out in the car today but no sign of any smoke, that's the strange part