Climate Control flakiness

[alan cordeiro]

I found that MOST blower failures are due to carbon brush
wearout. A temporary fix is to push down on the brush-holder
just below the rubber right angle pipe on the end of the blower,
its accessible without opening the unit. If this is the most warn brush,
you get a few months more life, may tide you over to warmer weather.

Alan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Kellock" <ekellock at gmail.com>
To: <200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Climate Control flakiness


> If the blower is getting tired, you can keep it going for a while by
> spraying some WD40 in there.  You lift the cowl cover at the base
> ofthe windshield and pull the elbow shaped rubber hose that is used as
> a cooling vent.  I've kept two going for a couple of years now like
> this.  I only have to go in there once a year or so.  I've also
> resurrected one on another car that wouldn't budge.  I've had to give
> it a couple of treatments to begin with but it seems to be happy now.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tony and Lillie" <tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net>
> To: "Peter Schulz" <pcschulz at comcast.net>
> Cc: <200q20v at audifans.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Climate Control flakiness
> 
> 
> > Sounds like it's about time for a new blower motor. Not "too" tough
> to do.
> > To find out, if you tap (hit hard with fist) above the fan on the
> central
> > housing, it might start again. Did this when it was -8 in Minnesota
> last
> > winter. Thank god it worked. Also, a buddy had a V8 with a bad fan -
> real
> > bad - and it would cause the climate control fuse to blow. New fan,
> good as
> > new.
> >
> > Tony Hoffman
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Peter Schulz" <pcschulz at comcast.net>
> > To: <200q20v at audifans.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:50 AM
> > Subject: Climate Control flakiness
> >
> >
> > > Timing is everything, and now that its getting cold, my climate
> control
> > > (CC) is acting up.
> > >
> > > Yesterday the blower did not come on at all - whether I set the CC
> head on
> > > ECON, BI LEVEL, AUTO or DEF, and fan speed hi or low....
> > >
> > > Same behavior this morning - set the CC on AUTO and temp on HI
> > >
> > > Nothing...no fan....
> > >
> > > Channel 00 shows no error codes.
> > >
> > > So I cycle the temperature between HI and LO  (85-63 F)....
> > > and the blower comes on!!!
> > >
> > > ?????????
> > >
> > > Any ideas??
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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