General The usual - Fiat500 Heater Issues

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General The usual - Fiat500 Heater Issues

5004ever

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Hello to all.
We have had our 500 (1.2 8v) since august 2019 and we love it. Its a 2009 car.


However - we have had great fun with the heater.

When we first got the car it would not blow hot. We discovered that if you set it to windscreen it would go to HI and maximum fan - but still blow cold.

If you whacked the heater box - the flap would activate and you had hot air.

Now , every morning after about 2 minutes of the car on HI and full fan - we stab the brakes and the flap activates.

If you shut down the car and start again and go to HI it will sometimes activate and sometimes not. A stab on the brakes always works.

If you turn the fan down to below 4 bars - the flap will die again and you are back to cold.

Also , even though we set it to 16 degrees it fries us.

We often have to drive with the passengers window open about 4cm.

We see that the worst case scenario is to remove the whole dash - we would prefer to put up with the inconvenience.

Any ideas ?
 
Hello and thank you for the quick reply.

Yep , AC but not dual zone.

We like to do most stuff ourselves and we are in France.

We have replaced 3 or 4 cabin heater matrixes in Citroens and Peugeots which involves the whole dash coming out but we hoped this was behind us when we bought the 500...........
 
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