Hi folks.
As it's now bloody cold outside, the heater on my 1998 Fiesta has packed in. It blows out a feeble amount of warmish air while the engine is warming up and until I get up to motorway speeds, but thereafter it reverts to cold, and necessitates woolly jumpers, long-johns, driving gloves and fluffy hats. So I look a pillock but at least I'm warm. It also necessitates me throwing myself on the collective wisdom on u.r.c.m.
Also, at approximately the same time, the engine temperature gauge has also apparently given up the ghost.
Oh, and the fan belt's started shrieking wildly just today, too.
Last serviced about 3,000 miles and 7 weeks ago.
I can't really complain - I've put about 80k miles on the poor thing in
3 years or so and it costs me very little generally so I don't mind getting it fixed, but I thought it wise to counsel opinions before toddling off to my local indie Ford specialist.A mate reckons it's [quote] "definitely the engine stat" [unquote] but the google searches I've done suggest this ain't necessarily so.
Anything else I could look out for, or that I could easily check for myself before going dahn the garage?
Many thanks in advance
John S.