stang66007
Veteran Member
engine runs at operating temp but changed t-stat anyways. no change. I have little to no heat coming out off the vents. 130K on car. Do they have problems with the blend doors on these?
This is correct information, but I do not think they will make a difference in this case.Manuals have 3 heater plugs on the end of the head. Auto/tr. cars don't use them. Could be bad relay or plugs, They are bigger than glow plugs that start the eng.
you can pull most of the dash, leaving the main part of it in place, unbolted, so it can be shifted...then you can remove the front defrost/floor duct...from there you have just enough room to access both blend doors and glue something to them.....I just did this job on a NB and it was a PITA!!...but I did not have to dump coolant or evac the AC system...I measured the blend doors carefully, cut some vinyl to fit and glued it vinyl side to the doors (fabric back out) ....my arms and hands were covered in glue but the end result was cook you out heat
Hah!!...surely you speak only of the jetta/golf...(ive had plenty of those apart) ...the beetle is an absolute nightmare....wish I had taken pictures ... there was a pile in the hatch area, a pile on top of the car, a pile on to the passenger side of the car, and a pile to the drivers side, all interior bits and pieces...both front floorboards were full of screws and other smaller bits....I'll wager there are at least three times as many screws and interior pieces to remove in a beetle as in a golf/jetta....I think Erno Rubik designed the friggin' interior on theseThese instrument panels are really not bad to tear into, you should see this Gran Prix we just had apart... yikes!
Ditto on the airbag clips...same experience here...I actually gave up the air bag clips on this one.. thats why the main portion of the dash stayed in place ....but hey choose your own poison...I think the jettas/golfs are a breeze....mo' powa' tooya' if you like gutting a newbeatThe NB is still easy to take apart. So what if there are 100 screws, if they are all easy to get to. Just time consuming, that's all.
I think the hardest thing about dealing with the dash/intruments/interior is the driver's airbag clips. They either seem to come right out right away or give me a fit for 20 minutes.
Rest of the interior is super easy.
Yikes ...yes you need to cover both doors...hope it's not all back together....the one you covered is actually just a single door that's bent into a 45Did what jimbote said and repaired the two doors farthest in with .002 shim metal and 3M weatherstrip glue. Got great heat. Now I still move the knob to defrost and still blows out of the vents and floor at the same time. Do I need to cover the first I seen inside the box? The job was more time than hard. I took a few pictures with my phone too.
Thanks for the help everyone!