Hi All,
My car went in for its last service and the main stealer quoted £386 to fix my non functioning blower fan. Had a quick look and thought I would share a mini fault finding guide.
Started by removing the rh plastic scuttle plate(used also to access the pollen filter)
From reading a bit on here the £100 resistor seems to be the fave fail point, usually diagnosed by only having full speed available on the fan. Checked mine with a multimeter, 12v DC was present from the terminals on the resistor module going out underneath to the blower fan.
So suspect the fan motor itself, removed 5 small 6mm headed bolts, fan moulding came away from main housing. Remove cable plug and 2 self tapping screws securing motor to housing. Checked both motor brushes, one was fine, one was corroded in its brush holder, took a pic but hard to see
Removed corroded and jammed brush, cleaned up, refitted, reassembled and jobsagoodun!
Whole job should take less than about 45 mins including a brew [smilie=icon_cheers.gif]
My car went in for its last service and the main stealer quoted £386 to fix my non functioning blower fan. Had a quick look and thought I would share a mini fault finding guide.
Started by removing the rh plastic scuttle plate(used also to access the pollen filter)
From reading a bit on here the £100 resistor seems to be the fave fail point, usually diagnosed by only having full speed available on the fan. Checked mine with a multimeter, 12v DC was present from the terminals on the resistor module going out underneath to the blower fan.
So suspect the fan motor itself, removed 5 small 6mm headed bolts, fan moulding came away from main housing. Remove cable plug and 2 self tapping screws securing motor to housing. Checked both motor brushes, one was fine, one was corroded in its brush holder, took a pic but hard to see
Removed corroded and jammed brush, cleaned up, refitted, reassembled and jobsagoodun!
Whole job should take less than about 45 mins including a brew [smilie=icon_cheers.gif]