Lol. Well the bus will be having the old petrol wbx heart ripped out early next year and a TDI diesel dropped in so that's the real reason for pulling the Eber. It still scares me though and it isn't very good at altitude. My compromise will be Planar I think. But the Russians don't seem to have nailed the electronics in the controllers so we'll see
...starting with Campers It’s not their most efficient strategy. At least the locks on the Bay doors are still German so we can get out. I don’t even have a heater yet I’m now thinking slippers, hat, gloves & a robe might be for me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I think the CCP are using old VW owners as a trial. They'll roll something bigger out later, after they've remotely turned off all the power stations from Beijing... You need a heater mate. Was chilling in me van today, rain pouring down outside, with the old Ebers running. It was only on "2". If I turned it up to "5", like @theBusmonkey, I'd be sitting there in me shreddies. They pump out some heat.
Phew...i’m not an old VW owner yet. Gotcha. I’ll keep a heater on the list. Just maybe a more expensive one...eventually. Must say, couple of winters ago I didn’t like discovering that the ice on my windows was on the inside Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Propex for the win. . Sorry for the thread hijack on the Chinese heaters. It wasn't my intention...just to remind folk to be aware
I meant old VWs, not owners You can trust Propex, you can trust Eberspacher. Whether you can trust the Lucky Number Seven Dragon Good Fortune Heater Company is open to debate.
You didn't work on them when they were current then, had to change a few type 4 heaters or isolate them because they were too expensive to repair.
The eber I mentioned above was isolated. I think by VW tech. It was expensive to recommission as you say. However, I ain't gonna be cold in a camper ever again! #gettingold
Propex are very good heaters and OK for the fair weather & image campers, but they are too expensive to run if you want to run them seriously, you can empty a Gaz 907 in a day, my diesel heater would cost less than £3
I have underslung lpg tank, its been fine the last three winters, keeps the van cosy Sent from my ELE-L09 using Tapatalk
Refillable tanks are cheaper to run but you only 7kW per litre from LPG as opposed to 10/11 kW Kero/Diesel.
We are neither fair weather nor 'image campers' whatever they are! A refillable system supplies ours, so I'd say it was serious. This was never intended to be a shoot out between propex and Chinese heaters but it's horses for courses. I respect what you say generally, but you're losing me on this argument tbh
As there must be a few Chinese heaters installed in TLB stock by now and its 100 vs 600 notes. Sure I expect all the clips to be Mickey mouse. Has anyone had bad experiences of the cheap ones. How do they fail? Have heat exchangers actually cracked.
