On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 6:27:34 PM UTC, Andy Dingley wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:36:14 UTC, DerbyBorn wrote:
Remember the terrible Volkswagen 411? This had a auxilliary Eberspacher
heater fitted.

Yes - a student friend from Germany had one. They weren't a standard fit, just the cold parts of Europe.

Trying to get spares for it in the UK was about as easy as you might expect. It has a heat exchanger component they describe (in badly translated English) as a "radiator". Yes, you have to phone up the VW main dealer and order "a radiator for a Beetle" - see how far you get with that.

In the end I got the bits from Edmunds Walker. Dad had a haulage business and one of his trucks had a diesel cab heater. Deal with Eberspacher and it was all no problem.

Didn't BMW once offer a heat retaining lump of aluminium which once warmed up by a short run retained sufficient heat over night to give a comfortable car a.s.a.p.

Wonder how effective it was.