Having a good read here, having already previously asked a few questions via the forum about heating. We have decided to go ahead and get an Eberspacher after yet more days out left myself and the boy shivering over our packed lunches in the Bongo with blankets over our knees because I hate to sit parked with the engine running. That was the weekend before last - cold wet and miserable. I know we could just go home on days like that with the heaters on but why spoil a day out. I think what did it was the sad little voice saying "Mum, why haven't you bought any central heating for the Bongo yet? I heard you talking about it and you haven't got it yet." Also reading Ron Miel's post that his will be used for days out too made me feel less indulgent
The only cold weather "camping" we are likely to be doing while the boy is so young is a couple of nights a year on grandma's driveway!
Anyway, noise wise - how would you rate it compared with the background noise on a ferry? Or a tumble drier doing its thing in the next room? Or an extractor fan in the hotel toilet two feet from your ear (anyone remember hotels - those things some of us used pre-Bongo)?
And I still haven't got the thing about battery drain
Presumably it requires the battery to start it? So this could be 20 times in a night depending on where your thermostat is set? We've got an Elecsol 100 leisure battery which should cope as long as we didn't spend a week without driving (unlikely in cold weather, I feel - we'd be heading off to a nice warm museum or somewhere!!)
Looked at your pics, Dandywarhol. Very useful although I don't recognise all the locations, still being unfamiliar with every inch of the Bongo thus far. We are going to have to go for a professional installation not cos we're particularly flush but it would never get done if we had to tackle it ourselves as I prefer to stick to simple mechanical stuff and unfortunately due to lack of days off and nowhere suitable to do the job (the street is not a good place to work on a vehicle) my husband doesn't want to make any promises either. I've also got a bit more particular about things now that we have the boy to worry about. Anyway, I've approached Espar in Plymouth who seem to be our most local Eberspacher dealer who install in vehicles and whilst they have heard of the Bongo they have never installed a heater in one and want to have a look at it before they agree to do the work.
Anyone used the other branch of Espar in ... oops, can't remember where it was now. Too much web surfing. Either Marlow in Bucks or somewhere in Hampshire (Southampton probably). Why does Marlow spring to mind?
And last question (sorry, Kirsty, rather hijacking your original question here), why do I think I read somewhere on here about an outlet to the AFT?
This really is the last question - does the Eberspacher have all its own outlets (blowers, whatever) or does the heat also come through the standard Bongo blower vents?
) therefore always seem to be cold 
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My conscience wouldn't let me do it, unless just very occasionally and without long term Bongoing intended 
Anyway, I seem to remember that, in another thread somebody did once say theirs ran happily all night, if not all w/e on their leisure battery - and. of course, the problem is greatly lessened by setting the thermostat near one or other limit (you just bake or freeze, though 