Extra Heating in a Defender

Travelling back from West Bay the other evening I got quite a bit of grief from the passenger side about the cabin heating, or lack of.

Now I've seen the threads about Eberspachers & Webastos, but £800 seems a lot for auxiliary heating, even if if can warm up the engine as well.

So has anyone found an economical means of improving the temperature in a Land Rover?

(More clothes isn't the answer, I'd like to use the Land Rover more but the family object to being asked to dress like Michelin man.)

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Also what stat are you running? If its a 75 try replacing with an 88, also try a rad muff or make a blanking plate for half the rad, this will help increase heater temp...

Get the heater box out and clean out/replace the matrix
Also check that the control wires are adjusted properly on the heater box

Daz

300w electric heater wired to the battery through a fused connection - not exactly a furnace but does take the edge off.

Cost - about £80

Mounted mine (Defender 90) to the roof just behind the middle seat

Station House said:

300w electric heater wired to the battery through a fused connection - not exactly a furnace but does take the edge off.

Cost - about £80

Mounted mine (Defender 90) to the roof just behind the middle seat

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Wot he said ^^^^^^

log burner or primus stove

Lorry night heater runs on diesel can be fitted in battery box under seat, controllable temperature, keep an eye on fle bay for a good deal , spare parts avilable too.

Webaston24v nightheaters are cheaper and work on a laptop cigarette lighter converter- eberspacher ones don't though.

sm0129 said:

Webaston24v nightheaters are cheaper and work on a laptop cigarette lighter converter- eberspacher ones don't though.

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Don't they kill battery's when parked up .

ive got ideas on me series tratter for under and behind seat heating basically ive noticed underfloor central heating is just a small bore pipe woven back and forth across the room with hot water running through

so my idea is to recreate this using 10mm copper pipe on the bulkhead tee'ed into the engine water system with a shut off tap to be able to turn it off in summer ( huh summer whats one of them )

Station House said:

300w electric heater wired to the battery through a fused connection - not exactly a furnace but does take the edge off.

Cost - about £80

Mounted mine (Defender 90) to the roof just behind the middle seat

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Do you have a make you would recommend?

I have a Ser 2 Station Wagon and I put a taxi passenger compartment heater underneath the back seats. The heater was out of a Metrocab and I plumbed it in series with the front standard heater. Should imagine this could be done with a Defender as they are a bit similar to a Series. Search on Google for taxi breakers.

I have a propex heater 1600w blown hot air, like they use in camper's , its toast in 5 mins and have it on a thermostate, its the best thing ive fitted also it go's into my roof tent
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You should have asked on chippy run i would have shown you

Tazz070299 said:

Do you have a make you would recommend?

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these

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defender300td1 said:

Don't they kill battery's when parked up .

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You'd only really use it with the engine running- from start up it would heat a 90 withun 2 minutes. The current draw is a lot less than some of the elctric heaters that have been mentioned in this thread

I have been thinking about this as I am usually wet and cold when I leave the stables and a warm car would be nice.

Not being very mechanical (though I am learning) I decided that instead of extra heating I need to reduce the space the current heater is trying to heat (the back)

So now considering ways to block the back from the front, there are no seats in the back anyway.

Trouble is I would still like to see in my rear view mirror, any ideas.

Trouble is I would still like to see in my rear view mirror, any ideas.[/QUOTE]

What about a sheet of MDF/Plywood with a rectangle cut out the middle & some clear plastic screwed to it

Regard`s, Dan.

Royston 90 said:

Trouble is I would still like to see in my rear view mirror, any ideas.

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What about a sheet of MDF/Plywood with a rectangle cut out the middle & some clear plastic screwed to it

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Thats a good idea, I had thought of the ply and the plastic, just not of combining them

I would quite like to put some on the sides at the back as well to fix things like saddle racks to.

Would it make the Defender look really scruffy or can you paint it nicely

Log burning stove?