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chipmunk

Member Since: 10 May 2012
Location: Kelso
Posts: 264

Side window demister

Just had my first run in the wet with newly done mod' to demist..............great, can really recommend. Only cost £4-5 for the aquarium tubing plus the annoyance factor of removing dash, but did the double washer jets thing and refurbished the wiper rack/cable while it was out. Also anyone looking to find Delphi Freedom battery to replace oem, Delphi don't do batteries now. Have gone for Bosch.

17th Apr 2013 10:50am

Tiger

Member Since: 06 Jul 2012
Location: Wales
Posts: 2265

What did you use for the vents?

17th Apr 2013 11:12am

chipmunk

Member Since: 10 May 2012
Location: Kelso
Posts: 264

Original vents still in place. Ran tubing from heater box straight to dash end. The mod has been covered many times on this forum. Effectively does the job of the MUD UK mod but lots cheaper.

17th Apr 2013 11:19am

Tiger

Member Since: 06 Jul 2012
Location: Wales
Posts: 2265

Sorry I mean vents for the dash end or is it just a hole?

17th Apr 2013 11:25am

chipmunk

Member Since: 10 May 2012
Location: Kelso
Posts: 264

Right now they are just holes as I've been looking for a trim to finish it off. Maybe there is a LR part as in the new Defender, that one is square with louvres. Will look into that.

17th Apr 2013 11:32am

megatoad

Member Since: 07 Jan 2012
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 358

2006 Defender 110 Td5 XS CSW Zambezi Silver

Hi Chipmunk

Sounds a great idea to me especially for my TD5

Have you got some photos?

How did you plumb into the air supply, T off the windscreen demister feeds I assume? He who dies with the most toys wins

Defender 90 & 110, S1 80", Disco 1, S111 88
LRSOC & CVLRC

17th Apr 2013 12:00pm

chipmunk

Member Since: 10 May 2012
Location: Kelso
Posts: 264

Afraid it's all back together again and I didn't photo it but if you do a search with "side demisters" on here it will come up with a couple of versions of how to do this. The MUD UK kit includes new vents with T's off to the sides. Others say that the kit works well (as it should at over £100) and would be much simpler to fit. But with a bit more effort you can run tubes from the heater box below the centre console to the dash ends and have the same result for £5.
I used silicone to seal the joints at both ends. Aquarium tubing 3/4ins is heavily ribbed and sort of screws into holes you drill into the heater box and dash ends, then apply silicone to seal. IMO taking air supply from the heater box may give slightly higher volume of air than 'sharing' air to the screen vents by 'T' piece. But up until now I've not even had the heater fan on full and the side windows stay mist free.

17th Apr 2013 12:23pm

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