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Are the vents in the door supposed to be for warm air?
There appears to be a "vent" on either side of the door, feeding from the dash area to the rear doorframe, so what am I missing? Whats the point behind this system?
Also should the "feed" holes in either side of the door and in the door pillars have rubbers seals on as mine are just bare?
Cheers all (he says as another bottle of red wine quickly empties)
Dan (hic)

The vents at the bottom of the door let air out.
When panel vans have bulkheads the incoming air goes out through the doors

the holes have nice surrounds in caravells... not panel vans , it was considered an unessesary expense

There is a heater tube THROUGH the doors that lets air from the front through the door to the cabin, only on passenger carrying T3s, these are the ones with the fluffy surround.
Pov spec panel vans and pick ups didn't have this.
There is also the fart vent at the back of the door, VW say to eliminate stale odours, yep, that means farts.
It opens up into the door cavity, the door has slots at the front edge, i presume drawing farts forward through the door and taken out at the gap on the front edge (air flowing over the gap should draw the stink away.
Note that later caravelles has fart vents behind the back windows, these had the vents in the front doors taped up from the factory and no blue slider handle to open/close them (because they don't do anything)

Basically, imagine getting a shoe box, cutting a hole into it and shoving the air drier in, the air coming in has to go somewhere, same as your van, turn the heaters on, or even the flow naturally through the ventilation system comes into the van, it has to come out, it' either goes through the front fart vents or out the back on later models.