Interior thermostat

[Mark.T]

From purchase I was having an issue with the cabin heater not providing warm air until I turned it right up. Having searched around these forums, I discovered that the problem be a dirty interior thermostat.

.. well, could have been ..

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Seems to have done the trick

I took more photos as I went, so I'll try write a 'how to' at some point

[rita]

Well done, you can now give it a wee suck every now and again when you are vacuuming the carpets.

[Mark.T]

A suck?! .. oh, with the vacuum cleaner, I get ya

[Mark.T]

I should add that I cleaned the fan out too ..

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After:

[mikeWalsall]

OR .. for routine cleaning blow the dust (and dog hairs) out using some aerosol compressed air (as used for cleaning computers) ..

[Mark.T]

That would be OK, but you'd be blowing the dust etc into the back of the housing. I doubt that would be too problematic though in realty .. unless you manged to the Bongo on the road for half a decade or something, in which case the housing would fill up with dust and stuff