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James_M

James_M

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Hello All

I was driving along over the weekend with the blower set to position 2 when it stopped altogether. Twiddling the knob revealed that it now only works on position 4 (full speed). Can anyone hazard a guess as to whether this is a relay problem? I ask becasue the relay it looks easier to change than the switch....

Many thanks

James
 
Good chance its your ballast resistor...I had the same problem with my S2.. on my car it was under the bonnet on top of the heater box, it was easy to remove, unplug the lead to it and undothe two philip screws holding it in, when you remove it it looks like a spring... thats the ballast resistor. Good luck.
 
Cheers guys.

I have the ballast resistor on the desk next to me and it doesn't look too clever.....

Found the rot of ages under the plastic cover that sits over all the heater gubbins. Had to take the wipers off to get under that. Quite involved by my standards!

The cover is split too so it's a phone call to AFN on Monday I think for one resistor and one cover...

James
 
I always try the OPC first for parts prices but I think this was one of those 'stupid price' items as I got my replacement from Porsch-Apart for under a tenner and they knew exactly what I wanted without having to spend an age looking through parts diagrams.
 
Porsch-Apart replacement duly ordered and fitted. Blower is now working fine. Porsch-Apart seem to have put their price up slightly but still less than half the price of a new OPC part.

Cheers

James
 
Well I ordered a replacement rain cover and wiper link today from my local OPC and thought I might as well get this ballast resistor as well as my fan speeds have been playing up on the odd occasion. I nearly fell off my chair when the OPC quoted me over £150 for it!!! I suspect he was looking at the wrong part but he was adamant it was the right thing! I think i'll try Porscheapart. For info the rain cover was £40 and the wiper link £10 before discounts.
 
Scott

Either he was looking at the wrong part for you or for me. My OPC quoted forty something quid for the resisitor. The rain cover was also forty something. I bought the latter thinking that a Porsch Apart item might be a bit 'used' looking.

Ah yes, the discount. I have not once remembered to ask for it. Could have saved the cost of more than a couple of drinks by now....

James
 
That's a lot for a resistor either way! There's a similar item on Golfs where you can spend tens of pounds with the dealer, or buy a resistor of the same rating from maplins for 30p an solder it in - worth investigating? Anyone got a pic of the offending part?
 
ORIGINAL: MikeH

Anyone got a pic of the offending part?
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It's a big heavy duty affair with 4 seperate resistor packs, measuring some 6 inches. John Sims posted a pic on here within the last month if anyone can find it in via search
 
Sounds similar but different... can't find the pic from searches. For what it's worth, on the VW ones, there's a tiny little cylinder resistor (about 1cm long) which blows, while the bit pack is fine.
 
ORIGINAL: mahoneyj

Scott

Either he was looking at the wrong part for you or for me. My OPC quoted forty something quid for the resisitor. The rain cover was also forty something. I bought the latter thinking that a Porsch Apart item might be a bit 'used' looking.

Ah yes, the discount. I have not once remembered to ask for it. Could have saved the cost of more than a couple of drinks by now....

James
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I'm always impressed with my OPC (Nottingham). I've never actually used my 10% PCGB discount as they usually volunteer the vat as a discount. I've noticed they always as "Have you bought parts from us before Mr Wood" and I always answer "Yes, quite a few" and I always get 15 - 17.5% discount. I once cheakily asked if I could have the 10% PCGB discount on top and he gave me a look as if i'd just offended his mother so I didn't push it!
 
After a mammoth search - found it [:)]

It turns out that John described it in a post last month but there was a picture of it posted by Darren (ex Flamingeye), way back when John had his original problem

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There is a slightly different version also that has one long coil of wire with three seperate wires coming off it at various distances down the coil (hence giving different resistance)
 
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