Heater blower motor

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Komet_V2
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Heater blower motor

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So, any movement through the blower settings doesn't activate the blower. Can it be anything other than the blower motor. When it went, there was a short time burning smell, say a minute.

Could the motor be fine and it's a fuse ?


There's still air coming into the cab, hot or cold, by moving the direction levers to cold or hot. But no control over strength.
VW Komet 1989, DG, water-cooled, manual, pastel white, aka Moray

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Re: Heater blower motor

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highly likly the motor, you can feed 12v direct the speed 3 wires which bypasses he resistor if that does nothing your motor is open circuit ( or the wiring which is unlikly. if you get lots of sparks your motor is shorted and you will find the fuse probably has blown.

It feels like a big job but in reality uninitiated it took me 3hrs , worst bit is the anti tamper bolts on the column if they have never ben replaced with normal ones. 

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Re: Heater blower motor

Post by Komet_V2 »

Thanks for the reply. Bought a new blower motor and left it to the garage.

Disappointingly, radiator fan not kicking in, either. Getting that checked, too. Probably more important than the blower

It temp guage is to believed, van seems more susceptible to getting hot faster without any obvious reason
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