blue meanie
D3 Decade
Member Since: 04 Aug 2005
Location: Newbury
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desktop USB fan stuck to the dashboard it is then ! 
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NHR
Member Since: 13 Dec 2007
Location: Warsaw
Posts: 923
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Having never experienced the steam train imitation, I was convinced my FBH was not working. However, each time it has been cold and I have checked under the bonnet after a short journey, the exhaust has been too hot to hold and the device is chugging away. I amazed, however, that even at minus 10 I have yet to see exhauast emerging from the wheel arch 
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| 6th Jan 2009 5:01 pm |
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methley
a.k.a. Big Hairy Ski Monster
Member Since: 07 Oct 2008
Location: Marshfield, South Glos
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Your exhaust may not be in the wheel arch. Mine pokes out under the front bumper...
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| 6th Jan 2009 5:24 pm |
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quantumjohn
Member Since: 16 Sep 2008
Location: London
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10forcash wrote:quantumjohn wrote:Mine has come on with just the key in the ignition - the engine hadn't been started. Is this a fault?
Nope, the FBH will start up providing:-
The ignition is on
Is the ignition considered on just by putting the key in the barrel?
I'd left the key in the ignition (without turning it) while I was trying to change a broken near side front mudflap. The screws were too tight to get a decent purchase on with the wheel still in place but that's another story. I was a bit suprised to hear the fbh fire up while I had my head in the wheel arch.
Like a fool I put my hand on the end of the metal tube sticking out the bottom of the arch just inside the chassis leg to see if it was hot 
John
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| 6th Jan 2009 7:15 pm |
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NHR
Member Since: 13 Dec 2007
Location: Warsaw
Posts: 923
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Thanks, I'll look there too. Minus 16C this morning!
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| 7th Jan 2009 9:34 am |
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MartinR
Member Since: 27 Jan 2008
Location: Oxon
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NHR wrote:Thanks, I'll look there too. Minus 16C this morning!
Only -2 in Oxfordshire today, but clouds of smoke coming from under N/S front bumper after a minute or so of starting up (just been out chcking fuses on not obviously heated washer jets!).
Suggest you locate the heater itself (mine's just rear of the wash bottle top up and has Webasto on the sticker on the back face as a clue that I probably found the right thing!!!) then follow the exhaust down. Mine comes out behind the bumper rather than in the wheel arch - noticed it a couple of days ago when I was weeding the underside!
Martin
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| 7th Jan 2009 9:55 am |
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pauleline
Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 82
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bellautos wrote:tintenter wrote:for those of you with the timer and haveing problems firing up the FBH i found these instructions in a websto manual for resetting the errors to 0 and it worked for me
instructions for resetting the FBH are as follows
press the flame symbol on the timer, wait 3 seconds and pull the 20a fuse No28, wait 3 secs reinsert fuse 28 and then press the flame button again wait 3 seconds and pull fuse 28 again, wait 3 seconds and re insert the fuse the FBH should then fire up as soon as the fuse connects
what i found was that you needed to do this a couple of times and press the button to fire it up and all was well
I know this is a old post , but thanks for the reset tip with the fuse, it worked first time on mine 
Press flame, pull fuse,wait, put fuse back, press flame and it fired up
Saves me logging onto IDs to clear the non starts untill my new FBH arrives that ive orderd.
Regards Pete
Hi Pete,
can you just fill me in if you did this "fuse out 3 seconds trick" after the car had gone to sleep (EPB light off) or with engine running / ke in position 2?
Thanks, Paul
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