What are these? (PHOTO INCLUDED!)

[spoon]

What are these? Those levers between the seats, with the little red rubbers on them. What is the left one for? What is the right one for?

Justin

[VW Addict]

Heat.

Labels are great huh?

Left one, to turn it on.

Right one, to adjust the temp, pull it, it gets hotter, not noticably, but supposively. Car has to be nice and warmed up and running before you get any heat whatsoever.

Basically, ask anyone they are there for decoration. However, I got my '78 Westy given some good heat, never know!

[Josie_Aus]

They look like heater controls to me... one opens and closes the front heater vents, the other operates the rear heater vents, (the ones under the back seat)

(edit) oops, too slow! thats what they seem to do on my car anyway (aussie '72 notch)

[spoon]

Ahh, thanks that's what I figured. But I have no idea where the heat is supposed to come from. I turn it on and mess with the temp... but honestly I cannot feel any air coming from anywhere. Where SHOULD the "heat" come from?

Justin

[Josie_Aus]

Mine comes from vents just infront of the doors on the floor, and at the corners at the bottom of the windscreen..
Apparantly my car is meant to have levers under the dash on each side to adjust the level of heat going to these two areas, but theres no trace of them... maybe your car has them!

[blankmange]

ever peeked at an owner's manual?

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/type3.php

did you pull on the lever to see what happens? Type 3's actually have amazing heating systems... worlds ahead of Type 1's...
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[Notcho]

I thought they were seat ejectors

I've never used my heater.........didn't know it worked that well, cool....
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[ddare]

Yeah they work pretty good, just gotta clean those areas out every now and then or the first time you use them in the winter you get stanked out. My car has to get nice and hot before I can really feel the heat (usually about 5 mins or so) but thats because I have several holes in my heater hoses

[SquareTone]

If your car is hooked up correctly (heater boxes haven't been replaced by J-tubes or headers, heater elbows are connected to the fan shroud, hoses from the heater boxes to the heater channels are intact, heater channels aren't rusted out, control cables are connected) then you should be able to get great wads of heat within about a minute of starting your car. When we first put my daughter's square together all of the flaps didn't close off completely. She kept complaining that her feet were getting cooked.

Raise the right lever to control the amount of heat. Raise the left lever to cook the legs of backseat passengers.
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'70 Fastback AT/FI (daily driver (exept when the starter won't work, or it's out of gas, or I don't go anywhere, ...))

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[blankmange]

[COFBack]

(if you have a 71 fastback like mine) you also have two knobs on the front of the door jams (just inside) that channel air from your feet to your defroster. Don't know if notches/squares have these.

don't remember if down or up is defroster. can check my manual if you need to know. Should be apparent.

If you really want to see how they work, pull the back seat and mess move them you'll see the cables move.

My heater in the FB works like a champ

robert

[Mr. Bubblehead]

[69fastbuck]

Living in western Pennsylvania as a child my parents had a 54 bug then a double cab.I didn't know cars had heat untill we got a corvair with a gas heater.The type 3s an oven.
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