Having a coolant heater isnt to be sniffed at mate, in fact I bought one to go in the westy a while back but didnt get round to fitting one due to the magnetic pump having a fault. I got it from ebay and when the seller said I must have burnt out the pump by putting resistance on it, kind of saved the day because I had done a little research about them before hand and knew it would be impossible and he had to come and pick it up and give me my money back
Anyway.. if you are ever doing any serious winter camping in your van at say -10 when diesel starts to go abit funny (i know they do winter mix and this helps loads) the webasto will give your engine a good warm up before hand giving you a good chance of it starting. I dont know if an LT has an auxiliary matrix fan set up (like the ones on a T3 under the rear seats) but your coolant heater would get the van engine up to temperature then kick the Aux heater in and that is what would heat the van. Its not as efficient as a hot air heater but you are getting alot more from it, you can also run hot water from it using a cylinder set up but thats a whole different story. Most of the Scandinavian vans have a webasto and a rear heater matrix, even my Swedish Syncro Doka has this as it must help in the extreme cold and you usually find they are also fitted with a mains plug in the passenger foot well to have a mains powered fan heater to kick in when plugged into the mains also as well as a mains powered heating coil fitted to the engine block. We have been talking about an Arctic Northern lights trip for years and when we do go we will be fitting a Webasto for sure, its just at the moment my charge cooler and snorkel will be taking up the room behind the rear lights where they normally go so I might have to pop one in a none conventional place.
An Ideal set up for extreme temperatures in the winter would be a D2 or newer model, and a coolant heater because if one let you down at least you would have the other so you dont freeze to death plus while they are both working you can benefit from the two and what they offer.
jed
