Originally Posted by Burgundymog
Thanks Peter, mine is mediocre too and I have wrapped all the pipes with thick heat insulation tape. I need to look at the heater box.

Yes I have used insulation wrap too.
To my mind they should have swapped the alternator to the other side (kits are available) and thereby shortened the tube runs significantly.
Even as it is one of the tubes connecting to to the aircon radiator is excessively long and if I have to do a radiator change which involves emptying the gas I might see if I can get that changed.
Blocking hot engine bay air from entering the air vents makes a huge difference. One other watch point is the drains for condensate. On mine there are some plastic tube that run from the bottom of the in-cabin box that can be easily crimped and there is also two spigots on the right hand side of the under bonnet box near the firewall and just above the footwell. I had to fit a drain tube to that as condensed water was travelling to the main cabling grommet and getting past that to drip into the footwell.
The main problem, from an aircon point of view, is that there are no dash vents. It has crossed my mind to rig up some ducting and a couple of flatish vents just under the dash but there really is not much space.


Peter

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