New to Audis...Again

[cobram at juno.com]

"LL - NY" <larrycleung at gmail.com> writes:

> Overall, good synopsis Kent, however the heater blower motor 
> replacement
> (may as well do the heater core while at it, b/c you don't want to 
> have to back
> into there when it fails) can be done entirely underhood.

If you snap the plastic duct connections under the dash instead of
unscrewing them.  But then again, if someone's been in there before
they're probably broken already.
 
> The claimed list record seems to range around 2 to 2.5 hrs, I 
> personally took
> 6 being extordinarily careful (and fearful) of breaking plastic 
> bits. Do an archive
> search on the "steakknife" heater blower/core repair. It's lengthy, 
> but not technically difficult to do.

I would never recommend the "steakknife" hack.  The hardest part of doing
it correctly is breaking the death grip of the fire wall caulk.  Removing
the hood and using straws to put the box halves back together usually
takes 3 hours or less...unless of course you run across a "gotcha".  

This is assuming the blower is bad, as I said in my previous post, noisy
blower could just be debris, rodents nesting or something else
interfering with the blades.
 
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