Been thinking now the cold weather is getting closer, is there any kind of heater you can have to warm the car up before you travel so say you pre heat it for ten mins the interior is warm and the windows clear.

The car should have a built in fuel burning heater............................... except that some early cars had them missed out on the line and retro fitted as a warranty claim. It is possible to buy a remote control from Webasto I think - best thing is to go onto www.disco3.co.uk and do a search, or even try doing a search using the search button on the orange tool bar at the top of the page on here. I don't recall anybody ever having said whether or not the developement of the remote control unit had been completed.
You can tell if your car has an FBH by opening the bonnet an just behind the nearside (on UK cars) there should be a large shiney box thing near to the coolant bottle (it's quite big so you know if you have it or not) It was originally fitted to make the engine warm up faster for emission reasons, but those of us with early cars complained bitterly how long it took to get warm air out on a frosty morning. It may be that later cars don't get it at all now. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Have a look at this thread on our sister site.

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Just checked on my MY07 HSE and it has a silver box with a Webasto sticker on it just behind the 3 fluid bottles. It's approx 5 x 5 Inches square with a couple of foil covered pipes connected to it, If that's the FBH then they do still have them. 2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
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Yep my TDV8 sport has one of those silver boxes, so are we saying this company can do a remote or something that can turn the heaters on in the car???

If I remember it isn't a remote control, more of a timer unit, so you set it up to switch on at a certain time interval before you want to use the car. Normally the FBH will only cut in without the timer when the airtemperature drops below 5C. It is basically there to counter the high thermal efficiency of the ferrous graphite engine block which takes a huge time to warm up the air under the bonnet even on really cold days. Even with the FBH my RRS still takes about 5 miles driving before I get warm air out of the blower, my Defender is blowing hot air within a mile of leaving the house! On very cold mornings you shouldn't be alarmed if you see a small whiff of smoke coming from the front airdam - it is the FBH exhaust! When I had my Freelander1 I called the dealer thinking there was a fault under the bonnet causing the engine to smoke the first cold morning I experienced this! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Purchased and installed the Webesto Timer kit, does what is says on the box, but the car must be at rest for 15 mins else the timer starts only for 30 seconds, I am currently working on a remote control add on so I can manually start it for inside the house.

got the details from disco3 site as they have a couple of good threads on it Tesla Model Y - 2023
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But it only warms the engine, it doesn't blow the heat into the car  Porsche Cayenne S Diesel 66 Plate

I would be interested in the remote, the timer would not be much use for me. '08 RRS TDV8
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I just spoke with Webasto. They have still not made any upgrade kit for the heater i.e we will not be able to control it as we want (remote etc)

According to Webasto tech.dept. they have a communication problem between the software on the heater and the RRS software.