My 02 BlueBird FE Build

[Oonrahnjay]

I have the two engine driven "hot water type" floor heaters which I will mount under the pass side row of seating to warm the bus while running. In the event that I find I want to shut off the engine and still maintain some heat, what is the best way

I would consider this:  
http://www.sleeperac.net/Hydtec.pdf 

    Has anyone had any experience with this company?  I am a bit afraid of any company that uses poorly-translated English in their ads and website "Buy air conditionings for your bus cab".   Is their technical knowledge and manufacturing process this sloppy? 

    Their prices almost look a little too low, if you know what I mean.   I have a lot of sad experience that tells me it's easy to pay for what you don't get and almost impossible to get what you don't pay for ...

[eagle19952]

I don't endorse anything....but I do think that the heater is worth considering, Espar might be my choice, I have a bit of experience with Webasto and they all fail...usually when you need them most..

http://www.snuggercanada.com/AIR_HEATER_MANUAL.pdf


We purchased a Snugger Diesel heater for the cost of $899 and had it fitted March 2012. Our first road trip commenced early June and we were using the heater both morning and night in our van, after the first three weeks it stopped refusing to go, indicator showed that it was the glow pin, tried to contact DHA in Sydney who we purchased it from, but phone was unattended so consequently we phoned snugger Melbourne whose attitude towards our breakdown was not very receptive and suggested that we ring Sydney again. After finally making contact with Roger from Sydney and talking to him, he had advised that of the hundreds he had sold that a handful had had problems with the glow pin, and immediately bent over backwards to help us. As we were heading up to Queensland through Sydney he was good enough to come to our caravan park and fit a new glow pin, since then we have used it constantly and have no trouble, we are very happy with it and would recommend it to anyone but buy it from Sydney.

Roger in Sydney has service agents around the country he wanted us to have it fixed by his rep in Adelaide but was more convenient for us to have it fitted in Sydney as we would have had to wait for part to come to S.A. We had our snugger fitted in Tasmania and we are very happy with the product even though there was a problem with the glow pin (these things happen) We have known two other people that have had them fitted and have no problems to date. Hope this is of some help because it is a big saving.

In a retail capacity, i have fitted many Eberspacher (AKA, Dometic) heaters, they are not without their own warranty issues either.

How do these snuggers appear in terms of build quality ?

As good as the Eberspacher, IMO. http://www.krueger.co.uk/products/eberspacher-heaters/air
Cheers.
Titch

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