Dashboard Light -Newbie

[Dizzyman]

Hi everyone. Just got myself a grand voyager at the weekend and he family all love it .. But already a warning light has come on ,, I have no handbook so don't know what it means . Can anyone help me what it is ?? Thanks.

It's a 2.8 crd executive xs model auto

 

Also does anyone have a pdf version of the handbook or know where I can get one ?? Tyvm

[Dizzyman]

This is the pic of warming light

[lovesmyvoyager]

Hi. I copied this off another post for you.

 

 

 

This light is only used for DIESEL ENGINE powered vehicles.

Vehicles equipped with the diesel engine are equipped with a supplemental cabin heater. This cabin heater is mounted under the vehicle and operates similar to an oil fired furnace. The heater burns small amounts of fuel to provide additional heat to the coolant. Coolant is routed from the engine, to the supplemental cabin heater and then to the front heater core. This provides additional heat to the passenger compartment. The supplemental cabin heater system is interfaced to the vehicles on-board computer systems and the scantool diagnostics.

The supplemental cabin heater has an electronic control module that monitors the heat output of the heater. The cabin heater operates at full load (5 kW), half load or idle mode (no additional heat) depending on engine coolant temperature.

When ambient temperatures are lower than 15° C (60° F), the supplemental cabin heater automatically operates once each ignition cycle for five minutes. This assures a good fuel supply is always present for the supplemental cabin heater.

[Dazandtrace]

Hi its for you auxiliary heater. It comes on to help you warm up car. If you look under car nearside on uk models. You will find auxiliary heater.

[Dizzyman]

Ok try guys .. But this light came on near the end of a 600 mile drive . So does this light mean it's faulty or that it was operating ??

[Dazandtrace]

Hi mine can come on at anytime. As iv got a thermostat fault my car doesn't get past a quarter on gauge. I travel 25 miles to work and mines on the whole way. Unless i turn temperature down on heater. But then again i dont get much heat as stat is stuck open.

But you will find it wont come on at all.if your fuel gauge is around the quarter or lower.

[QinteQ]

- get some lagging from Screwfix 99p a length - cut to fit in the grill - throw away come summer if you need to - do the same next year.

- putting a new stat in is a pigs job -  fit an inline stat - 20 minutes - £20 - GATES Part Number TH01489 from rockauto uk

- temp should be just under 1/2, any less than that and you will never get heat regardless

- any less than 1/2 on the gauge in winter and fuel costs rise by 5p per gallon

- quick school runs only and you will never get heat from the big engine lump

 

The Webasto light should come on at will or at all only if the heater is switched on and on auto digital temp. Example it will never come on even @ -20 °C if the heating is switched off. Best of luck.

[Dazandtrace]

Hi thanks for the info. Having new stat fitted under warranty on friday. So hopefully get some heat.

[QinteQ]

Hi thanks for the info. Having new stat fitted under warranty on friday. So hopefully get some heat.

You are welcome my friend, the car is a gud-n but the interior volume of only just short of 200 cu.ft takes some heat maintenance after xmas in the UK. Best of luck

Edited November 11, 2015 by QinteQ

[Dazandtrace]

Going back to.the in hose stat. Thinking about it if heard a few talking about fitting one. So excuse my ignorance but how do they and where about on the cooling system are they fitted.im only asking as i know how a stat works and how most of them are fitted and the position. But these are new to me.

Perhaps you could write something up about them for others out there who may have a problem with theres. If mine wasn't under warranty i would fit one as only £11 not like the 90 from europarts.

[QinteQ]

The stat - opening heat is @ 82°C 

 

Quinton Hazell 210 Thermostat

Opening Heat --- 82 deg C

Size A = Across ring --- 48mm.

Size B = Below ring --- 32.5mm.

Size C = Bottom ring --- 28.5mm

 http://www.micksgarage.com/img/td/57/l/qth210k-1.jpg

 

 

The inline stat is really just a stat [above] mounted the correct way round [water flow] with two pass through holes drilled into the stat rim. Cut a piece out of the transverse top pipe smear the stat with 'fairy liquid' force it in the top hose and jubilee clip tight. I'm lucky to have my own lathe and made a bespoke fitting :

 

http://i.imgur.com/fWzORGm.jpg

 

but just the stat on its own [see above] will do. Its not rocket science. To ensure you avoid an air lock make sure you drill one 1.5mm hole in the rim and that the wax bulb faces the engine / bulkhead, don't go 'safe mode' and drill three holes, it will work but will really slow down the warm up time and defeat the objective. REM to turn the heater full belt [to open the matrix] and remove the plastic water cap to 'burp' any air when you top up and bleed.

 

The [winterizing] Lagging

 

I used these lengths of lagging. I cut enough lengths [they expanded to 35mm when on] to obscure 2/3 of the radiator grill. It worked very well, they needed no 'fixing' and never came off, were not worth stealing by toe-rags and were cheap enough to throw away and put new ones on next year. Worked for me, with a built in reverse - if for any reason you need to - just pull them off and you are back to standard in less than 3 seconds. You will notice in the pic I deliberately pulled the previously tight 'V shaped joint cuts' slightly apart on the top piece of lagging to show you on the other two lower strips how, once fitted, they look almost unnoticeable. £3 quid well spent.

 

http://i.imgur.com/9SgNcwx.jpg

 

[Dazandtrace]

Fantastic info thanks. You say the top transverse hose. Is that the top rad hose.

[QinteQ]

Yes, the trans or top cooling hose. I did mine in the middle with 2 jubilee clips as described above, but you can do the same job by pulling the same hose off the RHS of the engine. Here you insert the same stat the same way [QTH210K] deep enough into the hose and jubilee it, then put the hose back on and jubilee that, then burp it. Its the same exact thing just a~n~other way of doing it. The stat flange lip [the one you drill] is just a frac too large which is a good thing and makes a good interference or friction fit.

[Dazandtrace]

Just an update. Iv finally got a new thermostat fitted under warranty. Car niw runs at the right temp and i habe hot air at last. But i have taken notes from the thermostat fitting from earlier posts incase it happens again to mine when out of warranty.

[QinteQ]

Chrysler & most other makers use a thermostat type that never restricts flow to the heater core, in other words they are design to fail in an open position. That way you might get cold but should never steam-boil a head as was the case in years gone by. Pleased you are sorted.