comfortmatic heater

[Happy1]

Are fiat still churning out vans with the drivers footwell heater not working properly requiring a fix that you have to ask for not a recall, can only find old threads nothing newish

 

[Conal]

I am also interested in any comments about this. Our 2016 registered 2.3, 150, Autotrail has hardly any heat reaching the footwell no matter what directional setting used.

 

[Steve and Denise]

There was a thread on here a while back where someone had done a little conversion to distribute the heater vents more to the foot well.
I am not sure how to find it though.

 

[Riverbankannie]

I bookmarked the thread under the old forum system so now it’s gone I’ll go and look though.
there is no recall fix, it’s just that RHD conformatic has the heater outlet blocked off. We keep meaning to get around to doing something about it .

 

[Riverbankannie]

Found it

Cab Draughts and Vents, a mod

Noticed cab area especially passenger side was a tad cool in the frosty weather last weekend. Had a quick look underneath and the Gaffer tape I'd sealed off the Fiat vents on passenger side was peeling off. Whipped out both vents, trimmed the thin mouldings off fronts (Stanley Knife) and gave a...

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

Now, I’m not sure that’s the one I had saved so I’ll go on looking!

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[JustifiedAncient]

Are fiat still churning out vans with the drivers footwell heater not working properly requiring a fix that you have to ask for not a recall, can only find old threads nothing newish

Fiat don't use the Comfortmatic system on new vans produced since mid-2019. The heater on our new Fiat auto seems to work OK although it takes a while to get up to temperature.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Comfortmatic & cold feet - solved!

I posted some time ago that I couldn't get my feet warm in winter when driving our 2016 Fiat Ducato X290, with comfortmatic gearbox. Passenger side was fine, just the driver's side that wouldn't get warm. Previous 2010 Ducato X250, with manual gearbox, lovely toasty warm feet, therefore assumed...

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

This was the one ! I must bookmark it again.

Download the PDF from Derry Wilson it is great!

 

[Happy1]

Took van to dealer wanted it a week to remove dashboard and add parts to get heat to drivers feet, decided to cut another hole add truma outlet and a bit if 60mm pipe from outlet in dash and sorted!!