~Sp33~
09-02-2007, 12:48 AM
Disclaimer: The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself nor Ozhonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk!
Aim: To repair the speed selector on the climate control unit.
Required: screwdriver, plyers.
Steps: Firstly: Making sure that your Fan speed selecter is actually broken turn the lever down to 1 or 2, the lower the number the more likely it is to be broken and youll see why soon. If no air gets blown out on these settings here's what to do.
1) remove the glovebox by unding the screws that are located at the bottom in the passengers side foot well ( where the glovebox pivots).
2)Once the glovebox is removed you'll see this:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/sp3ed3/pict1.jpg
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/sp3ed3/pict2.jpg
The black plug you can see attaches to the underside of the resistor which looks like this:
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2042/relayup3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
as you can see there's varying thicknesses the smaller the wire the lower the number, and because its smaller its also not as strong, and more likely to break on you.
The resistor actually sits upside down in there with the coils out of sight. Once you get that out youll be able to see the coils, and just unplug it to remove it.
Well a broken coil seems to be the problem, just gotta bridge it now!
3) I used a pair of plyers to twist the metal coil back together again, and thats lasted for a few months now, but if you wanted i see no reason why you couldnt solder if you have the facilities to do so.
4) reassamble in reverse order to taking it apart. Probably a good idea to check that it works before putting the glovebox back on.
The blue wires there are unrelated
Other comments:
The reason i posted this was that i found that a fair few people actually had this problem, but noone really could give me an answer as to why it wasnt working. I also rang honbits to order a new resistor but it was 30$. The method i showed works just as well, and will save you enough for a tank of gas :).
Any questions comments welcome.
~Sp33~
Aim: To repair the speed selector on the climate control unit.
Required: screwdriver, plyers.
Steps: Firstly: Making sure that your Fan speed selecter is actually broken turn the lever down to 1 or 2, the lower the number the more likely it is to be broken and youll see why soon. If no air gets blown out on these settings here's what to do.
1) remove the glovebox by unding the screws that are located at the bottom in the passengers side foot well ( where the glovebox pivots).
2)Once the glovebox is removed you'll see this:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/sp3ed3/pict1.jpg
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/sp3ed3/pict2.jpg
The black plug you can see attaches to the underside of the resistor which looks like this:
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2042/relayup3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
as you can see there's varying thicknesses the smaller the wire the lower the number, and because its smaller its also not as strong, and more likely to break on you.
The resistor actually sits upside down in there with the coils out of sight. Once you get that out youll be able to see the coils, and just unplug it to remove it.
Well a broken coil seems to be the problem, just gotta bridge it now!
3) I used a pair of plyers to twist the metal coil back together again, and thats lasted for a few months now, but if you wanted i see no reason why you couldnt solder if you have the facilities to do so.
4) reassamble in reverse order to taking it apart. Probably a good idea to check that it works before putting the glovebox back on.
The blue wires there are unrelated
Other comments:
The reason i posted this was that i found that a fair few people actually had this problem, but noone really could give me an answer as to why it wasnt working. I also rang honbits to order a new resistor but it was 30$. The method i showed works just as well, and will save you enough for a tank of gas :).
Any questions comments welcome.
~Sp33~