I've been driving around the country with a seized up heater control. Seized on cold! Not too bad on short journeys but if you have to run to Wales and back a different story.
The heater control, hot to cold, seized up on the van a few weeks ago and I have just managed to get it fixed. It meant that the dashboard had to come out and I decided that I wasn't going to do it, too cold out there at the moment, so I took it into my local friendly mechanic. He quoted me £250.00 plus parts which from Mercedes were nearly £300.00. I did a quick Ebay search, the source of everything you could ever need, and got the bits needed for £60.00. The van went in to the workshop yesterday evening at 5pm so that the mechanic could get an early start this morning and I collected it at 4pm today and guess what, the heater WORKS!! Yippeeee. It's great.
You don't realise how much you use the heater until you haven't got one. Back in the 60's a lot of cars, certainly the old bangers I could afford weren't fitted with heaters and you went out in the winter dressed as if you were going mountaineering and these days if it isn't fitted with full air con you don't want it. How times have changed.
The heater control, hot to cold, seized up on the van a few weeks ago and I have just managed to get it fixed. It meant that the dashboard had to come out and I decided that I wasn't going to do it, too cold out there at the moment, so I took it into my local friendly mechanic. He quoted me £250.00 plus parts which from Mercedes were nearly £300.00. I did a quick Ebay search, the source of everything you could ever need, and got the bits needed for £60.00. The van went in to the workshop yesterday evening at 5pm so that the mechanic could get an early start this morning and I collected it at 4pm today and guess what, the heater WORKS!! Yippeeee. It's great.
You don't realise how much you use the heater until you haven't got one. Back in the 60's a lot of cars, certainly the old bangers I could afford weren't fitted with heaters and you went out in the winter dressed as if you were going mountaineering and these days if it isn't fitted with full air con you don't want it. How times have changed.
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