Best place to buy replacement heater control panel

RPC · Sep 10, 2017

As above, where's the cheapest place to source one of these? I've been monitoring ebay for the last few weeks with no success - so apart from the main dealer, is there anywhere else worth looking?

Does anyone know how much the dealer is likely to charge?

Thanks!

Claude · Sep 11, 2017

You could try contacting Paul at Renault Parts Direct, they might be able to help one way or another.

MarcB · Sep 11, 2017

I believe the dealers are over £150 for one but would need to check.
The one above is on eBay at £45 plus postage.

They are rare and expensive like a lot of other things that seem to be on the Trophy or plastic

RPC · Sep 11, 2017

Thanks for the replies.

45+ postage seems more reasonable. Sent the seller (mossyv6 on here) a message to see if he'd mind sending it it Ireland. It was listed as UK postage only so I presume thats why it didn't show in any of my searches.

MarcB · Sep 11, 2017

Just looked the part up and it's £165 from renault and it's a Valeo unit.

Patrick Bateman · Sep 12, 2017

I bought mine from mossy.

If you're only doing this to replace a badly peeled original then it's far, far easier to pop off the cover of the assembly and just swap them round. Still a bit of a scutter but replacing the whole thing with the fan connection cables etc. at the back looks like an absolute nightmare.

swanny71 · Sep 12, 2017

Got mine from eBay - spotless for £25 but I was looking for 6months before that one came up.

Ashtons99 · Sep 17, 2017

I've got a brand new one in the box, £130 if you're interested.

jmh93 · Sep 18, 2017

I got the replacement cover for mine for a fiver from a 1.2 in a scrapyard. Bargain!

MO30 · Sep 18, 2017

Any info on how to swap just the cover and not the whole unit?

jmh93 · Sep 19, 2017

MO30 said:
Any info on how to swap just the cover and not the whole unit?

Pretty fiddly but it has clips on the top and bottom, you can get a little screw driver to pry them off. It means you don't need to disconnect all the wires as it wiggles out just enough.

Patrick Bateman · Sep 19, 2017

Prying the cover off is easy. The fiddly bit with that is getting the replacement cover back on while keeping the springs and plastic gubbins for the AC and recirculation switches in place. Took me a couple of attempts but it is manageable.

Just remember and check the two buttons work there and then before putting everything back together.