Diesel heating retro fitting in coachbuilt - anyone done it?

[MisterB]

We are looking at getting a new Moho in the summer.
I do like the concept of the diesel heating and hot water in the Chausson, but it's not a feature offered on what we are hoping to buy.

Does anyone have any experience of diesel heating in a Moho or has anyone retro fitted one to work direct off the vehicle diesel tank.

That way we would only need lpg for cooking (if not in why)

 

[Campervan_man]

Eberspacher ££££
Webasto £££
or
Chinese Diesel Air Heater ££

 

[Googlebot]

Mate fitted a Chinese one for about £100. He swears by it and insists it’s the best thing since sliced bread.

They are very good but I have only used the posh eberspacher ones at work.

 

[Derbyshire wanderer]

I was given an Ebersparcher from an EON van that I fitted to my last van. Cut the floor under a seat box and added a silencer that wasn’t with the original fitment. Bolted the fuel pump to the chassis and drilled the tank for the fuel feed.
Absolutely brilliant heating although still a little noisy when outside

 

[gus-lopez]

i fitted a chinese one to our van .works a treat . hardly any noise outside to my ear .

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[Two on Tour]

I fitted our Chinese diesel heater under our MH as there was nowhere suitable in our MH.
The heat is ducted up through the floor in the bathroom and out through vents into the bathroom and hab area.

I run ours on home heating oil at around 30p a litre as we have a couple of thousand litres in our tank for our oil fired home heating.

 

[MisterB]

Gus, DW, were they to a coachbuilt Moho or camper? Were they fitted to a new or old vehicle and fitted direct to the vehicles diesel tank?

 

[SandraL]

If you want to heat water you may be limited to the more expensive webasto or eberspacher which do hydronic, water heating.
I think the cheaper chinese or planar heaters are hot air heating only.

 

[Derbyshire wanderer]

Gus, DW, were they to a coachbuilt Moho or camper? Were they fitted to a new or old vehicle and fitted direct to the vehicles diesel tank?

Coachbuilt and a few years old. Direct to diesel tank as the pick up pipe only goes down three quarters of the depth so you cannot run out of fuel for the engine and only have to fill up the one tank without any faffing with a second tank.
Although we have heating oil at home that would have been a good bit cheaper I preferred the one tank option

 

[Two on Tour]

If you want to heat water you may be limited to the more expensive webasto or eberspacher which do hydronic, water heating.
I think the cheaper chinese or planar heaters are hot air heating only.

The Chinese are now selling copies of the Webasto Thermo Top diesel water heaters.

http://lavaner.com/pd.jsp?id=25#_pp=109_542

http://lavaner.com/pd.jsp?id=68#_pp=108_539

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[Northernraider]

If you want to heat water you may be limited to the more expensive webasto or eberspacher which do hydronic, water heating.
I think the cheaper chinese or planar heaters are hot air heating only.

They are

BUT theres a company called bobil vans that make a water heater that fits in yhe pipework of the diesel heater and heat water

Ive been researching it for my next van

 

[Northernraider]

If you want to heat water you may be limited to the more expensive webasto or eberspacher which do hydronic, water heating.
I think the cheaper chinese or planar heaters are hot air heating only.

They are

BUT theres a company called bobil vans that make a water heater that fits in yhe pipework of the diesel heater and heat water

Ive been researching it for my next van

 

[SandraL]

The Chinese are now selling copies of the Webasto Thermo Top diesel water heaters.

http://lavaner.com/pd.jsp?id=25#_pp=109_542

http://lavaner.com/pd.jsp?id=68#_pp=108_539

Well yet another school day for me, never knew these existed.

 

[bigwood]

There has to be a reason why diesel heaters are not fitted to the big name campervans and motorhomes. I think it will be down to cost. They can be exspensive and also you may not find a dealer that is able to repair them.
We have hired narrow boats with diesel heating via radiators and hot water. Due to the build of a narrowboat you can only hear them running from out side.

 

[Two on Tour]

I have replaced the original Chinese controller for our diesel heater with one that has been developed and produce by a guy in Australia, which gives me a lot control over the heater and functions that are not available with the standard Chinese controller, plus I can control the functions of our heater while away from our van via my phone or tablet.

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[OllyHughes]

I have replaced the original Chinese controller for our diesel heater with one that has been developed and produce by a guy in Australia, which gives me a lot control over the heater and functions that are not available with the standard Chinese controller, plus I can control the functions of our heater while away from our van via my phone or tablet.

Hello, could you give details of where you bought this controller please. I fitted a diesel
heater and it works well, the controller you fitted gives it much more flexability. Thanks

 

[Jaws]

We are looking at getting a new Moho in the summer.
I do like the concept of the diesel heating and hot water in the Chausson, but it's not a feature offered on what we are hoping to buy.

Does anyone have any experience of diesel heating in a Moho or has anyone retro fitted one to work direct off the vehicle diesel tank.

That way we would only need lpg for cooking (if not in why)

I have fitted several for folk.. And if you do a search for diesel heaters and my user name there is a lot of info on how I fitted one in my own van
There are options as far as fuel storage goes.. I personally prefer using a seperate tank located in a locker but you can run it from the main diesel tank.. Every van is different as to heater location and fuel storage location
There various reasons for my choice but the main one being I can run it on cheap as chips heating oil .. under 50p a litre rather than the liquid gold that goes in the main tank
I have only ever fitted cheap Chinese jobbies .. They SEEM to be quieter and draw less from the batteries than either Eberspacher Webasto
I Have been so impressed by the offerings from China I bought a second unit and installed it in the workshop

 

[Jaws]

I have replaced the original Chinese controller for our diesel heater with one that has been developed and produce by a guy in Australia, which gives me a lot control over the heater and functions that are not available with the standard Chinese controller, plus I can control the functions of our heater while away from our van via my phone or tablet.

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[Two on Tour]

Hello, could you give details of where you bought this controller please. I fitted a diesel
heater and it works well, the controller you fitted gives it much more flexability. Thanks

John Jaws

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[Mikeco]

I took one out of a friends coach built van a few years ago and most of it was underneath the van. The reason that he asked me to take it out was that it was too noisy and were often told so by anyone parked near them on a site.

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[SandraL]

We had a van with a hydronic eberspacher. Created loads of heat and hot water.
Downside , in summer parked up the neighbours not happy re noise or fumes when heating water for shower.
When all windows are open.
Fumes only on start and shut down.

 

[MisterB]

They are

BUT theres a company called bobil vans that make a water heater that fits in yhe pipework of the diesel heater and heat water

Ive been researching it for my next van

we watch a lot of youtube and there is a young couple 'max and sophie;,. who are building their own camper on a old commercial van, who have just fitted the Bobil heater on their latest episode .....

thanks to all who have contributed so far .....

Chausson fit them to their vans, so I am surprised others dont also offer that option ..... especially if they are fitting blown air heating ??

 

[Northernraider]

we watch a lot of youtube and there is a young couple 'max and sophie;,. who are building their own camper on a old commercial van, who have just fitted the Bobil heater on their latest episode .....

thanks to all who have contributed so far .....

Chausson fit them to their vans, so I am surprised others dont also offer that option ..... especially if they are fitting blown air heating ??

Yes they are building a vario same as I intend to that's how I first heard about bobil

 

[Northernraider]

We had a van with a hydronic eberspacher. Created loads of heat and hot water.
Downside , in summer parked up the neighbours not happy re noise or fumes when heating water for shower.
When all windows are open.
Fumes only on start and shut down.

Sounds perfect then.....stops people parking too close

 

[tjay]

Have a 5kw Chinese heater fitted in our moho, a Scout 7.5 metres c/w remote control, (great to turn heating in the morning from bed) works a treat, warms and keeps van hot no problem.
Tried it last week in minus 5 c and it heated the moho bloody lot quicker than I thought that it would take.
As we (usually) use it all year round a great addition.

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[Top Hat]

I took one out of a friends coach built van a few years ago and most of it was underneath the van. The reason that he asked me to take it out was that it was too noisy and were often told so by anyone parked near them on a site.

My van has one fitted fueled directly from the diesel tank (air only heating) and agree they are noisy, more so external than internal, I'm told you can have a silencer fitted anyone had any experience of one with a silencer?

 

[mitzimad]

They are

BUT theres a company called bobil vans that make a water heater that fits in yhe pipework of the diesel heater and heat water

Ive been researching it for my next van

i assume you mean a calorifier they've been used in narrow boats for ages but they are quite bulky by the time you get all the right pipework and valves in place even more so is you want to incorporate using the engine to heat them as well Terry did one of his vans with one a while back
theres now a chinese copy of a truma combi that runs on deisel

 

[Northernraider]

i assume you mean a calorifier they've been used in narrow boats for ages but they are quite bulky by the time you get all the right pipework and valves in place even more so is you want to incorporate using the engine to heat them as well Terry did one of his vans with one a while back
theres now a chinese copy of a truma combi that runs on deisel

Nope this is a very small radiator that fits in the ducting of the diesel heater

If you google bobil vans , bobil heater etc you can find them

 

[Two on Tour]

My van has one fitted fueled directly from the diesel tank (air only heating) and agree they are noisy, more so external than internal, I'm told you can have a silencer fitted anyone had any experience of one with a silencer?

The silver box around mine is a combined heat and sound insulation which I fitted around the heater unit and it quietens it down a lot, plus I install two silencers and wrapped the exhaust pipe in exhaust wrap to absorb the combustion noise.
Running flat out, our heater still sounds a bit on the loud side, but with the heat it chucks out you would never have it running full blast for long. Normally it's running just above tickover and you have to be standing next to our van to hear it and it can't be heard at all in our MH.

 

[MisterB]

Yes they are building a vario same as I intend to that's how I first heard about bobil

It's a big base vehicle from what I've seen. Max and Sophie seem to be doing everything they can to make 'their' perfect camper. Having a workshop where they can work inside is invaluable, especially as they are not working on it full time.
There are always things that could have been done differently, if you wanted to be critical, but it's their van and they're doing what they want, so good luck to them !!

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