I went an entire month this winter without any heat in my car.
It was quite a miserable month, to say the least.
I have an hour drive to work and back each day. It was so cold, and I dreaded having to drive anywhere, especially to work. My husband tried to figure out why the heat wasn’t working, but he just couldn’t diagnose the problem. He is not a mechanic, but he has done some mechanical work in the past, so he thought he would at least give it a try. I wish that he could have fixed the heating issue, but he just couldn’t. We ended up taking my car to a mechanic and asking them to diagnose the problem. We paid them to tell us what was wrong, but my husband wanted to fix it. They told us the problem, and my husband was able to replace the part that they told him to for a lot less money than they would have charged us. We were so excited to have heat again, but when we turned the heat on in the car, it still did not work. Long story short, the mechanic had misdiagnosed the problem. My husband did not do anything wrong. He replaced the part that they told him to. It was just the wrong part. We ended up having to take it back to the mechanic, and they fixed it, but it was super pricey. I want to complain about it in my heart, but at the same time, it is super nice to have heat in my car once again.