Heating System..

[nico1135]

Why my toyota avensis verso 4d2 takes some time before heater works. ...in the car...

[FROSTYBALLS]

Moved to the Avensis club

[Heidfirst]

diesels take longer to warm up than petrols hence usually take longer for heat to become available to the passenger compartment.

[Exvec]

You could try a differently rated thermostat,that opens more quickly thus allowing heat into the cabin in turn more quickly.

[Mr.D]

As Heidfirst said, heater works, only it doesn't have heat yet. Since heat is taken from coolant, you need to drive significant amount of miles to generate it. Unfortunatelly Exvec isn't corret regarding thermostat, as thermostat regulates longer and shortes cirkles of the coolant system (shorter goes inside engine, longer- throuth radiator as well), since thermostat opens around 75-85 degrees, you can never get to that temperature and still have heat, as coolanr/air mixture "radiator" is based on closed circkle. 3 ways to improve this:
1. Drive not economically, this means more fuel, more heat, faster coolant gets hot.

2. Only iproves, but depends on temperatures outside, to cover partial ratiator grill, because if you have -2 outside and driving 60 miles/h, feeling is like -20 at least, despite coolant isn't flowing through coolant radiator, this breeze still slows down heating time.

3. ELectrical or onboard fuel based heaters, but electrical requires parcking close to socket and fuel based is expensive to install and expensive to fix.

Hope this helps.

Mr.D