Just A Thought For Winter

[marinabrid]

Hi all,

just a thought, to all those with the lovely aux booster heater, i run mine in winter with a micro fuse bridging the terminals so i runs all the time , however a few years ago when cold weather came it wouldnt start up i got it going by belting it with a rubber mallet.

anyway now, in the middle of August i replace the mini fuse and see see if it starts up, i run it to give it a good blow out, then when winter comes hoepfully it will start.

Main reason i do it is if it is faulty you can fix it in the good weather and light nights rather than on your knees in the freezing cold and rain.

[chrispb123456]

Here here, it's good to hear positive remarks about the booster heater and not just wanting to disconnect it because they are having a problem with it.

Just to add what you said about bridging the sensor connector with a fuse you could add a switch in the bridging and run it back into the car for easier control, I bought a kit for mine so I can run the heater and warm the car without the engine running, it has a 7 day timer to control on and off times very useful when you finish work at 2am last thing you want to be doing is scraping the windows at that time :16:

[uk_promonsta]

Here here, it's good to hear positive remarks about the booster heater and not just wanting to disconnect it because they are having a problem with it.

Just to add what you said about bridging the sensor connector with a fuse you could add a switch in the bridging and run it back into the car for easier control, I bought a kit for mine so I can run the heater and warm the car without the engine running, it has a 7 day timer to control on and off times very useful when you finish work at 2am last thing you want to be doing is scraping the windows at that time :16:

Hi, that sounds like a really good idea chris. would like to do that to mine, think that would be really useful for the winter. I dont suppose you could tell me where you got the kit from and how much for please and was it difficult to fit? thanks.

[chrispb123456]

Hi there

I see this is your first post so welcome to the site.

The kit I got was on ebay (dieselheaters4u) it was advertised as an upgrade kit for a D5WZ Ebersp