# Heating Problem

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/heating-problem/41880>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** heating\
**Created:** [January 5, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/heating-problem/41880 "2010-01-05T00:00:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![rwjohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@rwjohnson](https://community.cartalk.com/u/rwjohnson)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/heating-problem/41880/1 "2010-01-05T00:00:16Z")

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As long as I am driving down the road my heater works fine but when I stop and idle my heater blows cold air. It is time for the timing belt to be changed and I was wondering if I should have the water pump changed also? Could that be causing the problem with the heating. My van has 205,000 miles on it. It is a 2002!

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**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/heating-problem/41880/2 "2010-01-05T00:17:01Z")

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Try what I suggest here [http://community.cartalk.com/posts/list/2134573.page](http://community.cartalk.com/posts/list/2134573.page), and see if this fixes the problem.

Tester