When the weather gets cold driving a buggy can be an emotional experience. I would like to give you some ideas as to how to get heat inside your buggy at the front. Most people assume to fit VW heat exchangers and the associated pipework, but there are other ways you could consider.
Normally buggy heaters exit under the rear seat, but if you have side pods you could consider this option : on my red GP buggy, I have a pair of cheapo aftermarket VW heat exchangers, onto which I made up a collar to reduce the pipe diameter so I could fit the normal VW fan housing cooling pipe, run a long length from the exchanger and on inside the side pods, then finally the heat existing by my feet with a black plastic on/off vent. This works well, and her indoors likes to keep her tootsies warm in the passenger seat, so for you single guys its another plus point to help pick up the birds in your buggy and keep them happy!
I purchased an “instant heater/cooler…a powerful ceramic heater blower…plugs into cigarette lighter socket….size 6″x6″x3″. This sounded pretty good in the newspaper advert, but the amount of blow and heat isn’t exactly tremendous, at least you can point it onto the windscreen to keep it clear of condensation. I cut off the cigarette plug replaced it with 2 crocodile clips (connect to battery), and added 2 in-line fuses. I removed the flat baseplate from the heater, and replaced with a large suction cup that I cannablised from a Halfords stick-on-windscreen notepad holder. This way I could stick the heater on the windscreen and direct the heat onto my line of vision.
