22-10-2014, 05:38 AM
Hi,
I'm probably not the first to ask this, but I'm new here. Sorry!
R-reg 306 TD estate. Heater fan worked ... and then it didn't. Come the frosty mornings, that will make the car undrivable. MOT expires mid December, maybe its time to put it on Ebay? Apart from the heater it does everything that is asked of it, which is currently a trip from Kettering to Swansea, and return same day, about 370 miles all round, once a week, with or without a trailer.
A friend has a similar car, also with a dead heater, so I'm hoping it's an easily identified, known fault. I'm not prepared to give it to a garage with an open cheque book on the passenger seat. That happened last year .. two handbrake cables "matured" into £650 ... OK, it did include four new tyres. and an MOT.
Huge fuse box under the dash. Driver's handbook says the ventilation (heater fan?) fuse is No.5. That seems to be a 10A fuse, which is intact.
There are several relays beside the fuses, but no indication if/which one is for the fan. I'm thinking that if somebody can tell me which relay I want, I should be able to "feel" it click as I switch the heater fan off/on. Yes ??? Is it posible to by-pass the relay?
Any advice, comments, (offers?) will be welcome.
HTH
602
I'm probably not the first to ask this, but I'm new here. Sorry!
R-reg 306 TD estate. Heater fan worked ... and then it didn't. Come the frosty mornings, that will make the car undrivable. MOT expires mid December, maybe its time to put it on Ebay? Apart from the heater it does everything that is asked of it, which is currently a trip from Kettering to Swansea, and return same day, about 370 miles all round, once a week, with or without a trailer.
A friend has a similar car, also with a dead heater, so I'm hoping it's an easily identified, known fault. I'm not prepared to give it to a garage with an open cheque book on the passenger seat. That happened last year .. two handbrake cables "matured" into £650 ... OK, it did include four new tyres. and an MOT.
Huge fuse box under the dash. Driver's handbook says the ventilation (heater fan?) fuse is No.5. That seems to be a 10A fuse, which is intact.
There are several relays beside the fuses, but no indication if/which one is for the fan. I'm thinking that if somebody can tell me which relay I want, I should be able to "feel" it click as I switch the heater fan off/on. Yes ??? Is it posible to by-pass the relay?
Any advice, comments, (offers?) will be welcome.
HTH
602