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I read your recent article on staying warm in your motorhome during the winter months (issue 266) with interest.

But I was surprised that the section on heating made no mention of the most obvious choice, the diesel heater.

I’m writing this letter in my toasty warm ’van, with its blown-air diesel heating system. Vastly superior to the gas version in one important aspect, an effectively limitless supply of fuel! Virtually all ’vans have a diesel engine, so surely, tapping into that huge tank has to be the obvious choice.

Our previous ’van had gas heating. Oh, how we would chuckle, waking on a crisp January morning to discover that the gas had run out overnight! No

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