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why not use the bigger fuel burning heater that does a reasonable job , 20 mins before you need to go to work, making sure you have the cctv is watching for un-friendly people in the interim, or a long piece of string with a bell attached at one end and tried to the bumper at the other ..
..............Somewhere in-between my old D3 and what's to come next .........
14th Oct 2007 8:42 pm
countrywide
Member Since: 16 Sep 2007
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Spoke to Webasto, awaiting a call back from their technical engineer about what you can and can't do with the timer.
16th Oct 2007 8:12 pm
simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
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Does everyone here not think the D3 warms up plenty fast already with the FBH ?
By the time I'm .5 miles down the road the vents move and warm air starts to get in...
16th Oct 2007 9:26 pm
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Thats my thoughts too Simon, it could be a bit chilly at the start of a journey but it soon warms up.1996 Discovery 1 300TDI ES Biarritz Blue, sold
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Some of us Northern'rs regularly need to clear the windscreen of ice before we drive for .5 miles......... The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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16th Oct 2007 9:41 pm
simon
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So switch on your heated windscreen JMC... takes less than a minute to be clearable by a wiper sweep...
You need to spend some time where it's really cold. Damn southern softies I'm not talking about a slight ground frost. It takes more than a minute to clear when the minus goes to double figures and the plastic scraper breaks on the ice....... The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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Some of us southerners are able to afford to live in the desirable south, run a D3 and have the odd skiing holiday where your cold would be considered a tepid spring day.
So there. I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
16th Oct 2007 9:55 pm
lee01277
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I've got one of those scrapers ... Took it back to the shop ..............Somewhere in-between my old D3 and what's to come next .........
I can afford not to live in the south The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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Or you take your mobile phone out your pocket and the face cracks with the cold, That was on the hill with the telephone masts above Dyce a few years ago.
The ink in my pen froze as I tried to do a survey of the buildings there and the owners got their Disco2 stuck on the way up the hill
16th Oct 2007 9:56 pm
simon
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That was on the hill with the telephone masts above Dyce a few years ago.
I come from Dyce Telephone masts? Are you talking about the tropospheric scatter station on Brimond????The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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I'm not talking about a slight ground frost. It takes more than a minute to clear when the minus goes to double figures and the plastic scraper breaks on the ice....... 
Telephone masts? 
Are you talking about the tropospheric scatter station on Brimond????
