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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    This one below mate, should be here any day. The chap selling was very helpful, which is why I bought this one. Other are for sale, but I took the plunge on this. On that auction site, item number 251708406221
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    Strewth I hope not, spending all this money and I may have killed it? Still waiting on the Diagnostic gadget to arrive, coming from Russia. Clever people them Russians.
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    RainX on headlights?

    Rain-X ? I used that on my headlights in the Winter, it makes scraping frost and ice off very easy, but I never saw a frost at all last 'winter'. It does keep them cleaner. I don't like it on the windscreen though funnily enough, I found it eventually degrades and gets very smeary. But...
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    Soft Nudge-Bar Fixing Replacements?

    Mine have rusted right through in places, anyone know where I can obtain replacements for these LR Soft Nudge-Bar Fixings? Appreciate it, if anyone knows.
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    First check on advice here, was to find the External Temp Sensor for th Webasto, here was where mine was.. I then shorted the contact for it with a bit of wire (ground blade-thin at the ends) to fool the Webasto unit into thinking it was cold... sadly, this didn't make it start when I run...
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    Okay, finally got to Specsavers and saw I had undone the wrong bolt each side that held the Front Bumper to the rest of the car. For those as mechanically challenged as me, this shows the mistake I made thanks to very dark, fuzzy images in my Haynes manual...wrong bolt, right bolt..duh...
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    Freelander 1 What mileage is your Freelander 1 on?

    TD4 51 plate, Chawton White, a rare beauty. Near 120,000 Major Repairs: New Recon Auto Box at 86,000 New Front Discs and Drums about 100,000 New ABS sensor to fix 3 Amigo's Cheap for what it gives me over the year, but let's see some white stuff this Winter... VERY happy.
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    Bugger !!

    At 100,000 or so I had them. Buggers indeed. t'was a ABS sensor in my case. Save strife and worry, get it hooked to a diagnosey. Easily fixed for £65 part & labour all-in. I pray for you...
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    Cheers Dave, Well I am still figuring how to get the blasted Front Bumper off. Ed China has no competition from me any time soon, sheesh... I have another thread asking for help re the Nudge Bar on that issue. Once I get the Front Bumper off, I can try your suggestion, I can't get to the...
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    Removing Front Bumper - Nudge Bar?

    Slowly trying to remove the Front Bumper on my 2001 TD4 so's I can get my knackered Webasto Heater out to try to fix it. Reached a hurdle with the Front Bumper. Removed every identifiable screw, pop-screw and the 2 inner-wing bolts, but it's stuck like it's welded on. My TD4 does have a soft...
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    Hang about... did I say Pin-2 ? So just to be sure, is it Pin-2 or Pin-3 to do the 12v direct start-up test?
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    Late update, sprained wrist curtailed things. Did the Pin-2 12v live feed test, making sure 12v was feeding in to the adjacent thicker-wired 2-Pin connector. No life at all. Okay, next step: Front Bumper needs to come off so I can access the Webasto fixing. Decided I want to get the...
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    Thanks for the feedback Dave, 'tis been a quiet thread.. I think I definitely need to try force-starting the Heater with the direct 12v 'bypass' before splashing out on a new loom or diagnostic USB gadget. Plan more work after the weekend as family need her OTR. Will update.
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    One thing I also want to try - I understand from reading this forum, that if you apply +ve 12v to pin 3 of the 5-pin plug (Thermo Top-C config) the FBH will fire up as this is the feed in from what would have been the timer switch if you had had one fitted. Q - when doing this test, does the...
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    Well, sadly shelling out for a new identical Timer-Clock, I get the same voltage readings. Eg 9.88V to 10V when the manual suggests I should see 'Approx 7V'. No life at al from the Heater and no ticking noises from Fuel pumper. A bit stumped. The manual mentions the 'Reset' procedure...
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    Boot net fixing hook things

    Ah that's the one! Nice find, many thanks!
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    Boot net fixing hook things

    I'm after those too - You can get fleeced on that auction site for the plastic curvy bit that you hook stuff onto, but the metal bit that goes inside behind the plastic of the boot area, isn't usually sold.
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    Next, I run the first test of the Troubleshooting Tree Result: Meter shows Zero volts at the loom connector to this pin with Timer-Switch Instant-On set to ON (or off). So, zero volts going to the Webasto unit pin, and a high Volts reading on the Timer. Wondering on next step...buy and...
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    Check that MHM, will do. Okay, started on the various diagnosis at least as I can fathom. The Timer Check. When I press the Instant-On to ON, meter is showing 10.11 Volts when the Manual states 'Approx 7 Volts'. I assume the difference betwen 10.11 and 7 Volts is showing a Fault at this...
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    Webasto FBH - Help me diagnose failure?

    I found I had access to the removable exposed connectors of the Webasto heater unit just by removing the NSF wheel-arch liner. Not easy, as the metal fixing screws around the arch liner had rusted rock-solid. I now have access to the pins on the heater and the wiring connectors to run tests...