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Re: Mk2 Heater Matrix..... looks like it's been bypassed.....
« Reply #10 on: 01 June 2009, 10:39 »
I just fitted a rado matrix.  Supposedly more reliable.

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Re: Mk2 Heater Matrix..... looks like it's been bypassed.....
« Reply #11 on: 01 June 2009, 10:48 »
I've done about 4 of these and it's a fiddly job that requires plenty of cups of tea and fag breaks.

Chuff is spot on with cleaning the new matrix first. Clean it off with white spirit and then wash it with fairy liquid, they stink otherwise.

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Re: Mk2 Heater Matrix..... looks like it's been bypassed.....
« Reply #12 on: 01 June 2009, 11:17 »
I've done about 4 of these and it's a fiddly job that requires plenty of cups of tea and fag breaks.

Chuff is spot on with cleaning the new matrix first. Clean it off with white spirit and then wash it with fairy liquid, they stink otherwise.

Nick

Unless you want to sell the car afterward. The smell is proof of it having been done! :grin:


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Re: Mk2 Heater Matrix..... looks like it's been bypassed.....
« Reply #13 on: 01 June 2009, 16:10 »
I've done about 4 of these and it's a fiddly job that requires plenty of cups of tea and fag breaks.

Chuff is spot on with cleaning the new matrix first. Clean it off with white spirit and then wash it with fairy liquid, they stink otherwise.

Nick

Unless you want to sell the car afterward. The smell is proof of it having been done! :grin:

well its months since i did mine and it still stinks  :sick: but it was changed during its winter lay up

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Re: Mk2 Heater Matrix..... looks like it's been bypassed.....
« Reply #14 on: 01 June 2009, 16:32 »
Aswell as plenty of tea and breaks you will also need a box of plasters! and if you can bend your body in half and dislocate your arms it will be ALOT! easier,not a nice job at all  :grin:

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Re: Mk2 Heater Matrix..... looks like it's been bypassed.....
« Reply #15 on: 01 June 2009, 17:21 »
easier with the seats oot!

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Re: Mk2 Heater Matrix..... looks like it's been bypassed.....
« Reply #16 on: 01 June 2009, 23:36 »
Aswell as plenty of tea and breaks you will also need a box of plasters! and if you can bend your body in half and dislocate your arms it will be ALOT! easier,not a nice job at all  :grin:

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its this kind of job that plasters were invented for  :shocked:


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Re: Mk2 Heater Matrix..... looks like it's been bypassed.....
« Reply #17 on: 02 June 2009, 01:57 »
try a renult 9 ,

in the end i called a f**kit and may have cut a section of bulkhead out
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Re: Mk2 Heater Matrix..... looks like it's been bypassed.....
« Reply #18 on: 02 June 2009, 08:00 »
its easy with the dash out