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Feb 20, 2007 16:58:58 GMT
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Afternoon folks- I have a potentially very stoopid q...
As I (allegedly) am the font of all motoring knowledge my friend has asked me how he turns the heater on in his '73 Beetle. Now, I would have throught this would be fairly simple but he says there is just a knob for the stereo and one for the wipers but no obvious way of turning the heater on.
Is there a heater at all and if so how do you control it?
I only briefly saw the car during summer so I have no idea. As I say it may be a very dumb question!!
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Mike D
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Beetle heater Mike D
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Feb 20, 2007 17:31:17 GMT
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It uses heat exchangers from the exhaust. It'll have two levers next to the handbrake. Pull them upwards, and his feet will roast, and he'll probably get poisoned as the heat exchangers will have rotted out!! The knobs on the dash are to direct air through the dash vents. Mike  |
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Feb 20, 2007 18:43:07 GMT
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check the cables.
i'll bet they will either not exist or have broken, and therefore the heating wont work
like most dub owners, he'll learn to live with it as opposed to fix it ;D
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Mike D
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Beetle heater Mike D
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Feb 20, 2007 19:02:20 GMT
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check the cables. i'll bet they will either not exist or have broken, and therefore the heating wont work like most dub owners, he'll learn to live with it as opposed to fix it ;D ;D j tubes and a wooly hat ;D |
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Ed
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Feb 20, 2007 19:10:42 GMT
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check the cables. i'll bet they will either not exist or have broken, and therefore the heating wont work like most dub owners, he'll learn to live with it as opposed to fix it ;D ;D j tubes and a wooly hat ;D there sounds the voice of experience! ;D and id agree with you  |
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Feb 20, 2007 19:18:11 GMT
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As said there are 2 levers by the handbrake (or a rotary knob by the gearstick if it's pre '65ish) The right lever is for heat and the left lever opens the flaps to the rear footwells, or is it the other way around?  Have a look at the heater outlets in the rear kickboards and try pulling either lever, you should see a flap move with one of them. The other lever will be connected to both heat exchangers which is part of the exhaust system. Real men have petrol heaters in their aircooled cars ;D |
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Feb 20, 2007 19:31:13 GMT
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Real men don't have heaters at all !  J tubes and a four into one manifold please. |
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Feb 20, 2007 19:43:27 GMT
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eberspacher petrol heater
or (heresy) audi or scooby motah and real heating ;D
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Retrojunkie
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Feb 20, 2007 21:27:01 GMT
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check the cables. i'll bet they will either not exist or have broken, and therefore the heating wont work like most dub owners, he'll learn to live with it as opposed to fix it ;D I have nearly spit my coffee out after reading that, pmsl, I have been driving around in the camper all through the winter, the heater cables snapped and I just could not be arsed to fix them.......wooly hat and a nice cup of coffee for the trip to work got me through  |
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Feb 20, 2007 22:20:25 GMT
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Real men have an ice scraper for the inside of the windscreen Although my beetle heater was jammed on... and the heat exchangers were new. Melted trainers on a long run! |
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Who names himself Trevor.
Or one day you might find
He's not a real drug dealer.
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Tomarse
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Feb 20, 2007 23:01:46 GMT
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This thread is all so true!!!!! LOL! ;D ;D ;D
I wrap up warmer to drive the bug than to go walking... cos it's breezier. ;D
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Feb 21, 2007 10:13:24 GMT
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Real men don't have heating in their water cooled VW's either :-)
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tigran
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Beetle heater tigran
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Feb 21, 2007 10:29:30 GMT
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Real men don't have water cooled VW's  |
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Feb 21, 2007 10:49:30 GMT
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my old bug only got warm after an hours motorway driving !!!!!
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Feb 21, 2007 12:06:52 GMT
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heating in a beetle ? ive either experienced bitter cold or searing pain as my white hot jeans touch my leg whilst my mobile is being melded to my bank cards in my bag
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Seth
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Feb 21, 2007 12:09:40 GMT
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J tube? I have a picture in my mind but can someone tell me what that actually means? |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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tofufi
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Feb 21, 2007 12:51:24 GMT
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 J tubes are like the heat exchangers on the exhaust, except they don't exchange heat, they just flow the gases straight though. Like every other aircooled VW owner I've given up on heating, and still drive around with the window down and the quarterlights open all through the winter. |
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Feb 21, 2007 13:28:26 GMT
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Seth, I'm appalled - J Tube. A tube in a J shape. I'd have thought even YOU would have worked that one out!! ;D |
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Seth
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Feb 21, 2007 13:40:32 GMT
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Cheers Tofufi at Keefy So, if I undersand right you fit the J tubes for improved exhaust flow and go without heating then.....? |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Feb 21, 2007 13:53:13 GMT
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If all seems well, and all the pipes are in place, but you still don't get much heating, then its time to take the body off and replace the heater channels (sills to non vw guys)
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