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Dear knowledgeable friends,

My heating is stuck on fully hot. I suspect the Heater Control Valve needs replacing.


As a quick fix until I next get to a Ford garage (apparently a genuine part is the only way to go) I am going to simply bypass the valve altogether by joining the input and output water pipes.


This will of course leave me with no heating. Not a problem for now.


My question is - will the A/C still work?

[happy-kat]

Don't know re A/C.
It is best to get genuine part better chance of it lasting more than a month and sometimes the part is fairly rasonably priced from Ford.

[nottadam]

No reason why the aircon would not work.
Bypassing the HCV is same as setting it to cold?
Would you really need the aircon now anyway?
I recently got a new HCV from FordPartsUK. Cheaper than dealers, a few clicks and the postman brought it in a couple of days.

This post has been edited by nottadam: 10 October 2014 - 03:07 PM

[GRANT]

FordPartsUK


Cheers for the tip

[nottadam]

Ooops. Didn't get that from FordPartsUK.
This is where I got it from...
http://www.ebay.co.u...K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[nottadam]

Ooops again, double post

This post has been edited by nottadam: 10 October 2014 - 09:47 PM

[Ian G]

£40 is loads and loads but brand new and Ford branded has to count for something - the aftermarket ones are typically not very good.

I've got used ones for £15 delivered, tested, but also the same age as the one which has come off.

Air con will still work - all you're doing by joining the pipes is prohibiting coolant entering the heater matrix cavity. That doesn't impede air flow or the AC exchanger's ability to go cold.

[eldoodarino]

wow, that's a good price on ebay if it's the genuine one... they're more like 50-60 over the counter

[nottadam]

Looks genuine to me Chris, and it's been in a couple of months now working fine....

[Y0ungn1ck]

nottadam, on 10 October 2014 - 09:46 PM, said:

Ooops. Didn't get that from FordPartsUK.
This is where I got it from...
http://www.ebay.co.u...K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Why does Perry's ad quote the HCV as being for a 1.6 ? Surely they are common across all Pumas ?

[Y0ungn1ck]

Strange ! Despite the HCV being a common part they are listing it against each Puma variant as if it was unique. A very good price as eldoodarino said so I have bought one as a spare.