Heat - dash vents, footwell vents, defrost vents?

[Colin]

My Sambar makes heat, but it only blows out of the footwell vents and defroster vents. That's really all that's important, but it would be cool to be able to blow heat out of the upper dash vents, too. When I flip the lever to dash vents, cold air blows. Is my selector door fubar'd, or is this normal for a Sambar? :sly:

Colin

[gatewayminitrucks]

my sambar blows cold when on the vent but I will have to see if it blows hot on floor or defrost. I tried the vents a lil while back and got only cold air.

[Colin]

Hmm. Maybe it's normal.

[BLES]

Colin:
I'll check out mine tomorrow, too. I assume you read my post.? I'm finally a mini truck owner now, too.
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[Colin]

Congrats on the purchase. :)

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Colin:
Just warmed mine up and tried it. Nice heat on defrost and floor positions but as soon as I switched to the panel vents it went to cold. Sorry, I guess that's the nature of the beast!
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[Ridgerunner]

Must be a natural. I have a 1990 and it does the same thing.

[mjseiler]

I have a 1997 Susuki Carry. I was perplexed because I experienced the same. Mine only blows hot air from the floor board and defrost! When I switch it to the dash vents it only blows cold air! Maybe that is the way they all operate?

[Colin]

Another of life's great mysteries, I guess. :)

They probably figure you need all the heat you can get when all that separates your boots from the tundra is a thin piece of sheet metal.

Colin

[hamradio]

It doesn't sound too weird or anything; on my vw rabbit, heat only comes out 2 little vents by speaker grilles in the dash, and a vent on the heater box. The 2 main vents in the dash blow cold. Apparently it is supposed to be this way. On my vw scirocco, it has 4 vents in the dash. 2 on the outside of the dash, 2 on the inside. heat only comes out the 2 inner vents.

[hamradio]

Also, couldn't one put down something that would provide a little insulational value, like dynamat or something? Along with a whole rubber floor mat?

[frostback]

I'm glad to hear this is normal, I thought I was going to have to tear the dash apart. At least the heater works good on defrost.:)

Derek

[earl660]

Yeah mine does the same thing. The Sambar vans have a foot heater for the backseat on a separate fan switch :D