I managed to get a second car seat for the little-un so the pathetic amount of hot air that came out of the Suzuki’s heater and the resulting minus degrees inside the car became a problem that, even more than before, needed to get fixed.
I’d been putting it off, because, like most cars it appeared that the car was built around the heater and it was going to be a real sod to get out. And so it was. In the end, after much brute force and a quantity of broke plastic, I gave up and decided that I would have to dismantle it in situ.
When I finally seperated it, I was left in no doubt about the source of the problem.
I seems this car has spent an amount of its life parked under a birch tree (thats the heater matrix btw)!
The water drain on the air intake was’t much better, this time pine needles which had actually composted quite nicely.
Putting it back together was the reverse of dismantling and just as much fun (including some super glue and gaffer tape to repair the damage I caused getting it out)!
Now, with the additional extra warmth from an 88 Deg C “winter” thermostat instead of the 82 Deg C “summer” one I foolishly had fitted, it’s like a sauna in the car and you even have to turn the heating down!
