Well it's finally given up .......................

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Re: Well it's finally given up .......................

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Don't be put off by the C5 dash photo, it looks worse than it is....!!!!
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If the C5 is anything like the 407 then dashboard removal is easier than the Xantia but the heater matrix itself is trickier as the whole heater box needs to be removed and that means depressurising the aircon.

Apart from that, not a bad job...

EDIT: Hamster, you beat me to it!!
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Xantia matrix is piece of cake - fit forte stop leak, forget about it!
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Hi All,

Sorry been helping my elderly parents over the weekend, mother just out of hospital after an op, all went well.

What a lot of interest this has generated :)

Chris, you are correct I've to do this outside but i do have the luxury of a garage to store the parts. I need to get this done asap but will gladly pop up to help your matirx change during the spring. All I need to know is roughly when to check what shift i am. As Jim says it is easier with 2 pairs of hands. We may be able to help Daviemac out as well :-D

Create a thread for this why not :)

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I've popped some stop leak in for the moment.. hopefully that may solve the problem.. it must be a ver small hole as I'm not losing any coolant and the carpet is sticky .. not soaking.
Must be a thing with mothers and hospital this month!! My mum was there 2 weeks ago and picking my M-I-L up to take her home tomorrow.
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That's why I have a halfords heat/massage cover on my drivers seat. It really helps. My feet get a bit cold so thick socks. It's not nearly so bad as the yellow courtesy bus at Aberdeen airport that I used to drive. It got no heat at all to the drivers compartment and vert little to the passengers despite constant complaints Apcoa would not do anything about it. Their answer was wear mort clothes. It's the only vehicle I have ever driven freezing the inside of the windows, and driving with two outdoor jackets hat scarf and gloves on and so constricted by clothes I thought it was dangerous to drive
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I used the DRK a lot last winter to go to work, often leaving at 6am. It has no heater.
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had a look under the carpet this morning.. the foam was soaking.. did my best to dry it out and left the carpet and foam up to get some air around them both.. Hopefully not going to ge any wetter after the stop leak.
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Only real way to dry the carpet and foam is to remove them all and dry them off in a warm place. I recommend you do this as part of the matrix job. They'll never dry otherwise. ..
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superloopy wrote:Hung mine in the greenhouse 8-).Took ages ....
Did it grow?

It does take ages. I last dried out carpets on my upstairs landing and even there in the warm it took three weeks...

Mike, here's the ebay link for my little 12V fan heater...

It is OK for demisting a C1 windscreen but will struggle to dry carpets :lol:
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c.morewood wrote:had a look under the carpet this morning.. the foam was soaking.. did my best to dry it out and left the carpet and foam up to get some air around them both.. Hopefully not going to ge any wetter after the stop leak.
If the matrix is leaking, there is a spigot under the dash on the passenger side, just away from the centre console, which will be wet. All 3 of mine leaked, all 3 were Forted, none were changed. The last one ran 80k with sealer in, and never leaked a drop after it was 'sealed'.
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I did my Matrix in the spring, what fun :rofl2: none of the sealers worked, I only needed an extra pair of hands for the big lift getting the dash out and back in, the tweeters have never recovered but otherwise a straightforward PITA, the worst thing was the misting, when I got in there I found a re-cored matrix so I was not the first.
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Stewart(oily) wrote:straightforward PITA
I love that as a description of the job Stewart :rofl2:

I experienced a (possibly) re-manufactured matrix once and it was too long. It split the heater box and broket it in an attempt to make it sit home.

I had to replace the whole heater box and that was a right fur-lined ocean-going PITA :twisted:
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