On our recent trip away, our Eberspacher diesel heater started playing up. It was blowing loads of cold air and then when we persuaded it to blow hot, it gave up after a few minutes.
Ant used his Eberspacher diagnostic thingummybob when he did our service and thought that it was probably the control unit. Today it went to our local agent and it was indeed the control unit, so a new one was fitted and we were relieved of nearly £400 (horrible pain in wallet).
It had only operated for 70 hours in 6 years (it has an internal log) and lorries usually run for about 4000 hours before packing up.
We have been advised to run it for about 1 hour at least once a month. We did try and run it fairly often but it has sometimes gone several months without being used.
In future we will be the noisy ones using the Eberspacher heater - even in the heatwave that we will be having this summer!
Ant used his Eberspacher diagnostic thingummybob when he did our service and thought that it was probably the control unit. Today it went to our local agent and it was indeed the control unit, so a new one was fitted and we were relieved of nearly £400 (horrible pain in wallet).

It had only operated for 70 hours in 6 years (it has an internal log) and lorries usually run for about 4000 hours before packing up.
We have been advised to run it for about 1 hour at least once a month. We did try and run it fairly often but it has sometimes gone several months without being used.
In future we will be the noisy ones using the Eberspacher heater - even in the heatwave that we will be having this summer!

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