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Dear Reader, This is a pleasant surprise. Selling cars isn't about cars, it's about people. The moment a person in an organisation has the courage to treat a customer as real person, with arguments and feelings, the whole deal is already done. So now Mr 'My Ami Vice' has a reason to be proud about his car, because he has been heard and his arguments taken seriously. Well done; for both parties. I wish him and his Ami a pleasant and 'friendly' cooperation. With Kind Regards, Michel F. van den Brun unemployed 50-plus ex public affairs strategist

My ami needed a new battery pack after 9 months with 7000 kilometres on the clock

You need to consider a portable power station like Mr Tim and Mr Boo have for their Citroen Ami on their YT Me and Mon Ami channel. Not only to charge all your peripherals but to have backup charging if you find you’ve gone past your allowed range. It could be a lifesaver!

Glad your finally near the end of the project Barrie , Looking forward to seeing you in it on the road again , Also just to ask you as your in the trade , Have you heard of a company called Fort Car Centre LTD ? If not watch a channel called Audit the Dealer on youtube , literally no joke they called in a load of gangstas to attack a youtube auditor in broad daylight , the poor bloke had to jump onto a cargo container in a warehouse yard to hide from the 10 blokes chasing him in Erdington Birmingham LOL not a good idea to audit car dealers me thinks lol

Honda motorcycles use rubber insert brass, things your looking for. Try Honda fire blade screen fixings.

Good to see you back. Glad the you found an acceptable solution for the number plate. Cheers 🦘

I enjoyed your project! Defogging would be one of my main concerns with Ami. Also concerned about charging if it's colder than -5 °C.

Excellent project. In the depths of winter, have you considered heated motorcycle clothing? Gerbing do a fantastic range of heated vests and gloves which can either be wired to the 12v or can use rechargeable batteries. I have their gloves and I get about 3 hours good heat out of them per charge which is more than enough for a Winter ride :)

now to cool you down in summer >🤔

So the leisure battery is for running a diesel heater? I assume the other gubbins to charge the leisure battery will be taking power from the mains when you plug the car in to recharge?

It would look better in a small, dash mounted instrument pod.

I love it!

I am amazed that an insurance company could charge £660 for an Ami.

Heater could be ready for what could be one of the hottest summers on record 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Citroën must be making an insane profit to build something so simple (and under engineered) and to build it in Morocco. If it was built in China we'd be having these for under €3000... The poor suspension alone is embarrassing for the Ami namesake.

Hi Barrie i need your help , I just bought a 2013 Fiat 500 very nice car cost me £3 grand but the gearbox sounds bad as in 1st its making like a grinding sound , what rights do i have ? The dealer has offered to pay £400 towards fixing it but really shouldn't they be covering the whole cost as they sold me a car thats unroadworthy ? A and A car Sales in Farnham is the name of the dealer in case you may know the man who owns the company ,If you could help me i would be very grateful thank you 😀

agree, they have done so much mistakes in such a small car, i dont even know how they were testing it. In cold or rainy wether its not able to drive couse you see barely nothing. i have my ami for 3 years and i need to wait one more year to get regural normal driving licence and drive normal cars with conditioner and better batery. i was just minding why couldnt they put a litle bigeer batery, it wont weight much more but it will improve problems with small range and half a problem with cold and rainy wether. Why havent they made bigger space behind seats, cause there is plenty of space that is not used, same with front of the car, they just could make it bigger, and plastic wont weight too much so that car went out of L6E rule zone. So much mistakes made in such small car, i dont know how they were planing and projecting this car

Cloth would clean window, just try 😅

I think you fell in love with ami like i did… you just don’t want to admit it..🤣

This car has some problems that we thought we have left in the past, twenty years ago, like lack of abs, airbags, air condition, power steering and fog on windows

Nice to see you are progressing your hobbyist ideas on the vehicle. Will be interesting to see how durable that heating system is in a tiny car bouncing around the roads in Preston. Practically how are you going to refill the diesel tank for the heater.. clearly it’s not accessible with the back panel on. Those heaters produce a lot of heat so your car will get warm but as there is little insulation in the Ami that heat will quickly get lost but I guess for your short journeys that’s not so bad. An interesting hobbyist project but even in a warmer Ami i’m not convinced the vehicle would be usable 12 months of the year. Good luck nice to see your ideas coming to fruition.

you should try shaving foam trick, it works great and no mist at least for 2 weeks, then you need to apply again.

I think reheating I.e. taking heat from the vehicle is SOO much overkill just run a 2KWChinese diesel heater straight into the back of the cab, would more than enough. An additionally battery for the heater is essential as it draws a large current to fire it up and the 12V battery fitted to the Ami may not be capable of doing both. required The Ami won’t drive without its 12V battery,I don’t know how the fitted Ami battery is charged, I assume it happens when it’s plugged in, if that is the case, will the fitted system allow another battery to now charge a second backup? Further more the fuel tank needs to be safe as far as a rear end crash is concerned ?

My goodness they are making a meal out of fitting this, I hope they are not charging you too much!

looks a top little motor...would suit me for work like a 3 mile round trip each day....love the electric idea

Why not use the heater air box to assist in the distribution of the heated air ?

great project. we discussed this a while ago. I think, however, that air conditioning is the real improvement which Ami 2.0 should implement.

It is good to see how neatly the Webasto heater fits in the space available; thanks for sharing this project. At 6:16 the 100 aH Lithium battery should be able to power the Webasto fan and electric accessories for longer than is needed for short trips in the Ami. Is that Lithium battery similar in size to the original lead acid battery?

Great project :) I'd be tempted to wire the heater to a 48v/12v buck convertor connected to the AMIs traction battery via a fuse :)

Interesting to see the result thank for sharing. I think a second battery with an isolator for the Webasto would be a good addition, and you could likely use something like an inexpensive 20amp or less bridge rectifier with in inline protection fuse rather than a large and heavy vehicle isolator. I located a relatively affordable lithium iron phosphate battery that's the same form-factor as the OEM Ami Battery for Tim in France. I seem to recall it was 2X the capacity and half the weight so that might be enough to run the heater for a while, but of course once the 12V AMI battery is flat, you're not going anywhere without a jump. In regards to steaming up, and de-misting the windscreen, as the cabin heats up, your moisture may condense on the cold windows, and I wonder if bringing in fresh air from outside might help in flushing moisture out of the cabin. I know on my Toyota, if I set the the the cabin air to recirculate without using the air conditioning compressor to dehumidify the air, and run full heat on the windscreen, as the cabin heats up, all that moisture condenses on the windscreen but if I set the cabin air to bring in outside air it forces the moisture out. but if I run the heater on the floor or panel vents and not the windscreen it fogs badly. If you decide to go with the hot-air duct to the windscreen, perhaps restricting the flow to the rear hot air inlet wold help divert some more air forward.

For charge/discharge control, you need a DVSR or VSR relay, commonly used in boats. When the car is charging, the 2 batteries are connected in parallel (when over 12.8 V) and when charging stops, it disconnects the two batteries, so the heater runs only on the auxiliary battery, and can never drain the original battery. I would recommend feeding the heater with outside air, otherwise you will have condensation problems, as there will be nowhere for the humidity in the air to escape. The difference in heating will be negligible anyway.

Citroën marketing meeting "guys and girls how can we sell a vehicle that is cheap to make and we can charge a ridiculous high price for even if it doesn't actually do many of the basics functions of a cheap run about' Le voilà, le Citroën Amy

I don’t suppose you’ll know if the screen is kept clear until next autumn. Have you explained how you’ll top up the diesel tank? Will be interesting to see what the diesel usage will be. Then after your trials are complete, how much your friend will charge to fit the system in to more Amis.

No harm is trying the setup the way that it currently stands. If it doesn't work as you expect then you've lost nothing because adding ducting to the front is ancillary to what you have and not rework..

Blimey there making a song & dance out of fitting it!

Mount a 230V heater in the AMI and while you charge you heat. Unplug both and you are ready to go. Or simply run the heater with 20€ Wifi Outlet.

A vent on the outlet is not necessary. I have a foam bung in mine for the days when its not cold enough for the heater, but you dont want a draught.

Think you over complicating things here. I just run short hose through backpanel into car. Air intake is external. 2kw is far more than you need to heat car. I just use fan without heater to clear window as air is so warm inside. Leaving in Scotland regularly below zero. I just get it finished before winter is over!

metal rectangular pipe underneath would be my suggestion.....low profile and tough enough if it should 'ground' now and then

I'd personally mount it in the front and plumb it into the existing ductwork

Aircraft SCAT tubing might be something to consider if you end up going with smaller tubing around the Sill and forward as it's dual-layer smooth silicone rather than corrugated paper and foil, and might offer a bit less resistance. It's a bit pricey, and I don't know if it's readily available in the U.K. but it's very available in the U.S.

Sorry to say ,bud it is going to coolaf way to fast with that lengt of pipe

whats the brand of your speaker? comes along fine the heater

Hi Barry, if you're going to go to this effort, the windshield definitely needs to be heated. Even if it means using thinner pipes. I'm excited to see how it works when it's finished. thank you for keeping us posted! Greetings from Germany

Did you test drive the smart fortwo electric which has leather seats and heating already or did you just want a Citroën ami?

I also bought the AMI, but I bought them for shopping and to ride to friends. I was a cyclist and had all kinds of bicycles, but after an incorrect operation on my knee I had to sell them and the AMI is a solution. My regret is that the window cannot be opened on the roof and the heating is not good, otherwise it is good for the price

I'm very curious about the other tiny electric car! I love your videos about the Ami, but because it's not launched in Norway, and charging below -5 °C might become a challenge I'm hungry for info on other models. I'm considering maybe getting an L6e-BP later this year. I love the design of Citroën Ami. Ligger Myli seems a bit on the expensive side. MEV City 123, seems ok, but I know too little about it. I believe they use different names in other countries.

Interesting video, its a lot more work to fit it than I appreciated. It will make such a difference to the Ami. Lack of torch didnt spoil my viewing one bit😄

Haven't you head of a torch!...couldn't see a thing.

I call what you say wisdom