Land Rover Freelander MY2001 TD4

Fuel Burning Heater Conversion to Parking Heater with Webasto T80

Remote and Timer Control

The author of these instructions does not accept any liability for the content. The conversion is
undertaken at the fitters own risk.
The instructions are meant to be a general guide and require a person to have basic knowledge
of safe workshop practices, electrical, mechanical knowledge and basic tools. This is not line by
line instruction. The installation is not for the faint hearted. Please refer to Webasto’s website for
safe operating requirements & procedures when using the parking heater or refer to the Land
Rover workshop manual (RAVE).
™ Disconnect battery before commencing with any work.
™ Please do not request further information on the installation from the author.

Suggested Parts Required

™ 0.5mm2 automotive thin wall wire various colours, according to wiring diagram.
™ 2.0mm2 automotive thin wall wire various colours according to wiring diagram.
™ Cable braiding or protector sleeving for running the cables inside.
™ Four pin 12v relay SPST normally open (existing heater relay already in car can be used
but needs to be relocated).
™ Five pin 12v relay SPDT change over (in place of existing heater relay).
™ Webasto T80 Telestart kit with Y-cable and handset(approx £100-£150 via ebay).
™ Webasto Timer model 1533 (approx £30.00 via ebay).
™ Webasto muffler and 2-sturdy clamps(approx £20 via ebay)
™ Multilock 070 4 pin plug and connector with pins (RS components).
™ 10A 12v DPDT relay (Maplin product N08AW £4.59).
™ Enclosure box to fit inside cubby box (Maplin product BZ73Q H2853 130x68x46mm ABS
plastic enclosure). £3.25.
™ 2 - Contact pin receptacles to insert into fuel burning heater plug (RS components).
™ Fuse block with at least 2 fuse holders with 5A and 10A fuse options.
™ Heat shrink tube in various sizes.

You can of course retrieve some of these electrical items via your environmentally friendly
scrap yard.
Step 1 Establish if Fuel burning heater is working

1. Remove front n/s wheel and plastic arch liner to access FBH.
2. Insert wire or metal probe into FBH plug CO925 pin 1 or the (Slate/Green) wire CO925
pin 3 and apply a fused 12v supply direct from the battery to energise the FBH. Hold the
12v supply on, the FBH will take a few minutes to get up to speed and heating, so wait for
a minute or two until the burner is up and running fully. If burner does not start check for
reason of lockout. Once you are satisfied the FBH is running correctly proceed to next
step. Notice how noisy the burner is when running without the muffler kit fitted, also listen
out for the FBH fuel solenoid pump located at the rear of the car clicking away as the
burner is heating up the coolant.
3. Remove one of the rubber blanking grommets from the FBH 6 pin plug (CO925) and
insert a digital multi meter probe into pin 4, check for 12v present. This will be for the
yellow wire, the switched 12v to energise the 5 pin SPDT change-over relay.
4. Disconnect 12v supply and again note that the FBH will continue to run, it takes approx
two minutes to shut down from its cooling down cycle.

Step 2 – Installation, engine bay and wheel arch

1. On the Freelander, once the plastic wheel arch is removed, you can unhook the FBH
from it’s mountings (2 x 8mm A/F set pins) to allow you to work without the need to
remove the front bumper. Disconnect the two electrical plugs going into the FBH.
Slacken the two mounting set pins, but do not unscrew fully, lift the FBH free. There
is enough slack in the rubber coolant pipes to allow you to work insitu.
2. Remove the exhaust pipe from FBH and cut out a middle section of the exhaust pipe
and allow for fitting the muffler. Fit and clamp muffler back onto FBH with correct
Webasto clamps (not jubilee clips). Use exhaust assembly paste sparingly at the
joints.
3. Re-mount FBH onto the 2 x 8mm set pins and re-tighten set pins.
4. Crimp the correct pin receptacle contacts that fit the 6 pin CO925 plug to the newly
run Blue and Yellow wires, insert receptacle contacts into plug (Blue CO925-1 and
Yellow CO925-4), leave enough wire to allow running into passenger compartment.
Run blue and yellow wires up through hole in chassis leg above FBH, run braiding to
protect wires.
 5. Remove engine bay fuse box, disconnect all plugs from the bottom of fuse box, and
set aside. All the wires beneath the fuse box make it look a little complicated, but
each plug is colour coded and of unique fit into the fuse box, so you cannot mix them
up upon assembly, so don’t worry! It should be observed that underneath the fuse
box there is a main wiring harness that passes through the bulkhead into the
passenger compartment. It should also be noted that the large rubber grommet in the
bulkhead for the main wiring harness has a little extension fitted to allow any
accessory wires to be passed through the engine bay bulkhead. Snip off the top of
this little rubber extension. Feed through the blue and yellow wires, the T80 aerial
wire and a heavy duty brown wire for the power feed; protect any engine bay wires
that have been run with braiding. To aid feeding the T80 aerial wire through the
bulkhead the white plastic plug on it should be removed. A little washing up liquid
applied to the grommet will help pass the cables through the rubber grommet in the
bulkhead.
6. Splice the brown wire into plug CO576-6 at the purple/brown wire for permanent 12v
feed.
7. Run the aerial head of the T80 to behind the front bumper grille. The aerial head just
rests behind the bumper bar behind the bumper skin.
8. Run and protect cables, refit all plugs onto fuse box and refit. The engine bay work is
now complete.

Step 3 – Internal work

1. Remove centre console cubby box, radio, heater panel, & passenger side glovebox.
2. Mount T80 black box receiver just behind glovebox. On the inner side of the A-panel
just level with the glovebox aperture you will find a 6mm captive nut which can be
used to mount the T80 black box receiver, the 4 pin relay and any earths that are
required.
3. In the T80 kit you will find a Y-cable which needs modifying. As per my wiring
diagram pull out pin 1 from the timer switch plug end and tape aside as this is not
required. This will leave you with three wires at the timer plug, pin2-grey pin3-red,
pin4-brown, Pin 1 should be empty.
4. At the T80 receiver black box plug you should only have pin1-red, pin3-black, pin4-
grey, pin6-brown, disconnect the purple wire and tape aside as it is not required.
5. Remove the four pin square shaped female plug from the Webasto harness as this is
not required. Or snip off leaving as much wire on the y-cable harness as possible.
 6. You should end up with three wires looking for a home, pink, red, & black. I snipped
of the contacts of these wires. In order to run the pink, red and the black wires from
the T80 harness, I used a Multilock 070 series 4 pin plug which can sourced from RS
components. You could just splice these wires and apply heat shrink, it is up to the
fitter.
7. Connect Y-cable to T80 receiver black box and run the end of the Y-cable (the timer
switch plug) to the cubby box in centre of armrest.
8. Fit black plastic enclosure box to cubby box with self tapping screws. This will be the
mounting plinth for the Timer switch. Feed Y-cable through enclosure and cubby box.
9. Using the vehicles existing four pin relay for the heater blower, I relocated it next to
the T80 black box receiver. The heater blower relay was then replaced by a five pin
version, see wiring diagrams for more detail.
10. Next step is to wire up the heater blower, follow the wiring attached diagram, I used a
DPDT relay for this.
11. Once the wiring is complete refit centre console etc, cubby box, and fit timer switch to
timer plug.
12. Now test system and enjoy the heat, all in all a few hours work, and not for the faint
hearted, but well worth it in the end.
13. Ensure you comply with Webasto’s safety guidelines for use such as not using in
confined spaces or using on a garage forecourt while refuelling, etc

Recommended Settings for optimum windscreen defrost and comfort levels, before
leaving the vehicle if using the Parking Heater with the Remote or Timer Switch

1. Set Blower at Pos 2.

2. Set temperature control at hot.
3. Set heater direction control to defrost.