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nope... and I'm doing 30m round trip everyday on the motorway (if the vap is gonna freeze up its on the motorway in this weather) in it at the mo too

my heater is warm within about 5mins and roasting in about 10 minutes,have no complaints at all

dugcati wrote:nope... and I'm doing 30m round trip everyday on the motorway (if the vap is gonna freeze up its on the motorway in this weather) in it at the mo too

Sorry Dug my comment about LPG and a good heater was a statement rather than a question

Thermostat bought....

silverbullet wrote:Vapouriser needs to be hot all the time so it's in parallel to the heater circuit, plumbed in the same as an auxiliary heater. I doubt mine's got a restrictor as per an aux.h. so it's on the jobs to do list.

Silly me, I thought about what I wrote as I was driving home and it is obvious that the vap unit is not in series with the heater or it would be cut off from warming water when the heater was turned off, like I say = silly me

Did my thermostat today.
Found this

I do hope the rest of it isn't circulating with my coolant

That is odd

I mean if someone had wanted to not have a stat due to overheating issues, they would have removed the whole thing !!

Most odd !!

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A blog / tale =

I once bought an Audio 100 Coupe GT (MK1 Quattro lookalike) = nice car (for a while)
It came from a guy aged around 40 who had worked at Kwik-Fit for years (Yeah I know, read on)
He said the only fault was it did not get up to temperature.
Odd I thought, as there is only 1 component that can cause that and he reckoned he had changed the stat
I got it home and took the stat housing off.
What I saw I could not believe !!
The Audi uses a much larger than usual thermostat, but in the housing, lying on it's side, rattling around in this huge chamber was a standard ford / BMC sized stat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - It was just dropped into a housing twice the stats size and was doing nothing at all !!

Now even my 80 year old mother had gone to fit that stat, she would have known that was not right !!

Proper stat fitted = problem solved.

Oh you don't get better than a Kwik-Fit fitter as the song says

I laughed when I saw it..
It pretty much sums up the whole vehicle - every thing I need to work on ends up taking ages as I have to fix a couple of other things at the same time.
She's running sweet as a nut now - I have to open the windows even in this cold weather - it's too hot ha ha
I guess the matrix was designed to heat a whole van - a three seater cab has bugger all volume compared to a van

dugcati wrote:.......if your heating system is no good then I would be thinking blocked matrix/airlocks or stuck open thermostats

Glad you got to the bottom of the problem - fancy sharing a bit of heat with an aircold van! hehe

Hells bells. I couldn't imagine driving an Aircold in this weather

I couldn't get my doors open this morning = frozen up
Had to get in via the slider !

It's 19 deg C and bright sun in Thessaloniki (Greece) where we went on holiday last (around 5 years ago )

I am going to go and live there somehow, one day.