How long for your heater to warm up...

My heater seems to take ages to get hot, most of my previous cars start getting warm after 5mins, the TD5 seems to take about 15mis and thats just to get warm not hot!

Yesterday after standing for 5 days warm air within one mile or 5mins and we have heat so hot I need to turn it down around 2.5 miles but then it's not a diesel.

I wish! Mine is Diesel but Id say a good 10 miles before i get heat. I know when I was younger I had a thermostat prob and removed it from one of my cars....wondering if someones done the same...

Sounds about right...about 15/20 mins to get it to blow luke warm.... too short to get warmth on journey to work so ......blanket and hot water bottles way forward .

Sizer said:

I wish! Mine is Diesel but Id say a good 10 miles before i get heat. I know when I was younger I had a thermostat prob and removed it from one of my cars....wondering if someones done the same...

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no! That's about normal, fridge on wheels! 20min journey then your ok

Take the engine viscous fan off for the winter, helps warm up a bit. Done mine, no problems with engine temp even tugging two horses uphill in 2nd/3rd gear.........

Mine is the same about 20 min or so

If you have Clinate Control rather than A/C it will not start blowing any air until the Engine is up to temp. However i find that if i put it on demist it blows out warm air quicker.

Mines about 5 miles until it hot

I suppose it depends on how cold it is to start with, how long you run the engine whilst clearing the windows, what sort of journey it is (pootling around estate roads or on a main road) and suchlike things. But the TD5 is a fairly big lump, so whatever, it's going to take a while for it to warm up.

You could buy one of those blow heaters that plug into the cigar lighter and give instant heat, I suppose. Or rig up a remote engine start so it warms up while you're still scoffing breakfast. I bet someone on here has done that. Probably more trouble than it's worth though for most people.

It's got a heater??????! blimey, I thought the point of those "heater" buttons were to keep your fingers warm on the drive to work

or you could change the thermostat, did mine and 2 miles there's warm air

mine only takes a min or so until neater is warm and hot within 2/3mins enough that you have to turn it down or it will dry out your eyeballs! Haha v8i not td5

Id say mine gets a warmth you can feel in the cabin within5 minutes.

Cheers.

You should also check and bleed the coolant regularly,filling it with the reservoir raised and continually squeezing the top rad hose as well.

My 300tdi is warm after 2 or 3 miles, or under 5 minutes.

as above did put a new thermostate in about 2 month ago

Just left mine on a drive to mates a few miles away, with 0.3 miles heater was warm, 0.6 miles was hot

Did own a td5 (02 plate) and don't remember it being luke warm, thought it got warm enough. Saying that the P38 RR I have now is warm within 1 minute and gets very hot inside, even on the coldest day, BUT it is the V8 4.6 petrol! Seems the petrol version get hotter in general and warmer quicker than the diesel.

My TD5 has the fan removed and takes about 10min to blow warm with stop start driving. Id did take about 5min but since I removed the EGR it takes longer.