After fixing the TT yesterday morning I decided to get the dash and heater back out of the car to replace the heater matrix, new matrix landed on Friday!

I pushed the car out of the garage to give it some air and a bit more space to work with!
My drive is showing signs that I have a problem!


and the Megane is parked on the road!
Anyway, I got the dash out and put it to one side,

Then out came the heater!

Old matrix out, new one in! quite an easy swap once the thing is out of the car!

The post turned up and this landed,

Ha ha, got it straight on the car!! The car was first registered on 16 Jan 91!!

After that distraction, for some random reason I looked at the rear of the dash and thought, there is something missing from there!! I had a dig around the loft and found it!

I then decided to clean the remnants of the foam tape from around the vent and put some new on there!

This where things went sideways! I then had the realisation that the heater unit I was using does not have the hole in it to marry up with the vent in the dash!! FFS!!! I had a wobble and decided to clean up the rubber grommets for the heated rear screen and put those in instead!

I also put the rear tailgate trim on, just distracting myself from the heater saga!!

Once I had got all my teddy's back in my pram I got back on the heater issue and decided that I would simply change the broken arm on the original unit with the good one on the replacement unit!


It was at this point that the wife walked past and I whinged at her about this, she said "can't you just cut the hole in it" I obviously dismissed her comment as it was far too simple a solution.
I then got back to dismantling the good unit first!

New heater matrix out!! Then split the case with a flat screwdriver, again surprisingly easy to do!

Out with the fan

I gave the fan a test! all good just needs a clean up!

and had a look at the resistor! I then thought, I might aswell put a new one of these in, now that it is in bits! So I got on and ordered one of those!

Only after messing about with the fan and resistor did I look at the structure of the heater box! The wife was right! I could have just cut the bloody thing!
So I decided to give it all a clean and cut the hole in it!

So I'll wait for the new resistor to turn and put this lot back together!
Thanks for reading guys!