I was wondering myself if Chichester is totally bereft of DIY stores .....

george used to work in chichester homebase! thin k its the only one!

Am I the only one that prefers those gaps in the window to be without any foam? I find the draught that comes in demists the upper part of the window which is handy at junctions. With the heater set up correctly the car should be warm enough.

One thing I have wondered about though, on my particular car the heater is very hot, almost too hot, and I've never known one so hot in a 2cv so it got me wondering why. The engine on my car is of unknown provenance but it's a real flyer, which makes me wonder if it has had 9 - 1 barrels and pistons fitted previously.

As a higher compression engine is bound to generate more heat, just out of interest has anyone with 9 - 1's fitted noticed a warmer heater as a result by any chance?

i get whst you mean, i dont mind the gaps, just apparently it makes a difference if there blocked.

i also feel a cold spot round the vent flap, even though the vent flaps calmped down hard..

oh well!

Got 9/1's in mine ......I cant say I've noticed,but then again,the heater has always worked well in my car even when it had 8.5/1's ...... even in the coldest weather I've always driven without a jacket/coat on.
Draught excluder is a must though [imho] ......that wind whistling in the window gaps interferes with me listening to my stereo.
Mr Nail .....you did an extensive restoration on your car .....did you by any chance refurb all the insides of the heat exchangers
'Cos I reckon that on a lot of the older cars [even the youngest of 'em are 20 by now] .....the foam on the direction flaps must deteriorate [sp?] ....causing some heat loss as it blows past poor seals & outa the wing tubes......just a thought.

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I don't think I was cold in my 2cv, we drove from Warrington to Bangor in the middle of the night in heavy snow (and got out three times to try and help people facing the wrong way or falling off the edge of the A55) Toasty. Didn't do anything special except replace the cardboard tubes 2 or 3 times in the 10 years I had it. It did have draught excluder but mostly in bits!

Where's Mr Lewis4x4SF? Or, come to that, SubaruPete? If they can survive a trip to the North Pole in the depths of winter, they can lob a few suggestions in on this... <grin>

Mind you, I seem to recall Pete's preparation included a diesel auxiliary heater and a separate tank for it...

Russ has got the right idea, though.

That's the thing T, the car was really warm before. I remember the seller (Julian Ford) had experience of many 2cv's yet commented himself on how particularly warm this one was. Since then it's been fitted with an entirely different body shell, and it's still bloody warm, so I was thinking it must be the engine?

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That's easy, turn it off till the heat dissipates.

I've noticed a marked diffence between engines, mine's toasty quite quickly now!

Old engine... Rubber cooling shrouds and clagged up and dirty cylinder cooling fins

New engine... Metal cooling shrouds and clean cylinder cooling fins