Rear air Conditioning and rear heater

[Peggy]

Hi
We’ve just bought a 12 seater 2015 minibus to convert into a campervan.
We’ve took the seats out and sold them and stripped inside. We have a rear A/C and heater and wondered what most people do with it? Take it out? Leave it under the bed not to use?
Any ideas?

[johnporter11]

Why would you not use it? I'm just finishing a conversion on a 17 seater, which is a base model and doesn't have AC unfortunately. I wish I had it. But my base model still has all the cavities and rear box built into the trim panels. I've cut the box away, because it was a useless waste of space.
But your decision might depend on how you are going to configure your van. I wanted to retain as much of the original trim as possible. So, if I had AC in there, I'd keep it...

[dumper]

Mine was only a aircon unit at the back at first i left it in on my conversion it was in a storage area at the back but it started turning everything in it damp even when never used as the coolant ran through it when the front is used so I had it removed and the pipes blocked off by a Aircon engineer. Plus point a bigger storage area my van is a l4 and with the layout taking up a big part of the interior space the front aircon is man enough so having a rear unit is of no use and you can’t use it when parked up at night I didn’t remove the rear heater unit as it is underneath the front passenger seat and having swivels if I removed it I couldn’t use the space anyway.