Plumbing and Heating
Having had a motorhome with the gas fired, blown air heating system we decided on this vehicle to fit a diesel fired wet hydronic system. We wanted to move away from gas as our main heating fuel as we felt that diesel is a more readily available fuel around the world. Although there are many companies that make diesel furnaces we soon discovered that there were two main players providing a service in many countries . These being Webasto and Eberspacher . The Mercedes 1017A does not have glow plugs to assist cold starting so we knew that what ever additional heating system we fitted it had to be connected to the engine cooling / heating system in order to pre heat the engine for extreme cold starting. For two years on the trot we went to the Dusseldorf motorhome show to look at vehicle component section. On both occasions we spent several hours discussing our needs with both Eberspacher and Webasto. Our decision to go with Eberspacher was ma...