Heater Matrix

[Thom89]

Do not buy cheap matrix for your Mk2, it'll come back to bite you! You want a Mk3 item from GSF or dealer, and either Behr or Valeo branded for £35ish upwards, avoid anything cheaper, as they leak!

Thom

[X4MGS]

Do not buy cheap matrix for your Mk2, it'll come back to bite you! You want a Mk3 item from GSF or dealer, and either Behr or Valeo branded for £35ish upwards, avoid anything cheaper, as they leak!

Thom

+1 - Buy a Genuine one... It's a ball ache to fit so do it with a proper one so yo shouldn't have to do kit ever again... make sure you undo the dash bolts makes life so much easier when you refit the unit... check out the http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?board=40.0

[cняis]

Sweet, thanks for all this. Ill get a heater matrix for cheap when the time comes, can't do it just yet, bit too busy! The cause of all this was because of leaking hoses and my radiator fan had stopped working without me knowing, which in turn boiled the water and took out the heater matrix! Then after that was bypassed, it blew up the coolant bottle!  So, after a lot of strife, got the fan working again for the time being, that seems to have fixed everything (for now!)  Now I need to pick up a new fan (bearing's have gone, hardly turns) and a matrix.

I have just done a matrix in mine so feel your pain, although i took the whole dash out rather than fiddling around whilst led upside down in the footwells 

If you want a hand let me know

[Charge]

I have just done a matrix in mine so feel your pain, although i took the whole dash out rather than fiddling around whilst led upside down in the footwells 

If you want a hand let me know

You only live down the road, ill let you know if it comes to it! haha Thanks for the offer.

I might take it off the road in September for 2 years, I'm at uni anyway - so might not need to do it as soon as I was first thinking.

[rob.043]

Be sure your coolant mix is ok after the massive overflow (i.e. not just refilled with water) if you do lay it up for a couple of years- dont want to find engine damage from freezing winter conditions!

[Charge]

Yea I need to find all the things I need to do to it first, at the moment it's got some coolant in it, but probably not enough.

[Charge]

Ok, great.

So I just bought a new fan, seeing as this was the reason why all this has happened, but it's a newer 3 prong motor, instead of my 2 prong loom. Which connections should I use for the low speed fan to work, and what needs doing so I can have the 3 prong conector/wiring loom for a fast setting?

Thanks

[gixer1400]

hi ,if the new unit has a different fitting to the one in your car then its the wrong one 

take it back and tell them which one you need 

and if the fan only works on pos 3 the resisor has failed 

go to an electrical shop like maplins and buy a 184 thermal fuse £1.00 and solder it in