RE: heater fan trouble-shooting

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.com.pl>]

It's common for the blower motor to seize after years of use. This would
give the exact symptoms (mine was refusing to start at low temps, but
would start if I hit the heater box). Temporary fix is to remove the
black rubber vent and spray some contact cleaner and/or WD-40 into the
motor.

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	geo [SMTP:gamills@ns.sympatico.ca]
> Sent:	Saturday, January 10, 1998 12:59 AM
> To:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	heater fan trouble-shooting
> 
> Beast is a 5kq with ECC.
> 
> Symptom: fan became intermittent, would not start when requested (i.e.
> hit the defrost button).  No sounds of any bearing noise, fan motor
> seemed to work well when it wanted to.  This occurred over a few days
> and now it has shut down.
> 
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> Geo