hi all i thought i would share my find as i don't think its common knowledge,
the heater blower stopped working on my 05 dci almera van i narrowed the problem down to the heater resistor
i got a replacement in a scrapyard for £25 swapped it over and the blower worked again.
my curiosity got the better of me i had to take my old resistor apart to try find out what was wrong with it
as expected i couldn't find any obvious issues, i decided to plug it back into the car for further testing i was using a multimeter to check for power in/out and i accidently bridged 2 contacts with the multimeter and amazingly the blower worked, i soldered a spare ecu pin to bridge the 2 contacts. it has been a year now since i did the mod and unbelievably the blower still works perfect in all modes for any length of time,
i will put a pic up to show this easy fix, regards frank
.edit.
you can see top left where i soldered on a link from the diode to the pin,
happy to share this hope it helps someone out
the heater blower stopped working on my 05 dci almera van i narrowed the problem down to the heater resistor
i got a replacement in a scrapyard for £25 swapped it over and the blower worked again.
my curiosity got the better of me i had to take my old resistor apart to try find out what was wrong with it
as expected i couldn't find any obvious issues, i decided to plug it back into the car for further testing i was using a multimeter to check for power in/out and i accidently bridged 2 contacts with the multimeter and amazingly the blower worked, i soldered a spare ecu pin to bridge the 2 contacts. it has been a year now since i did the mod and unbelievably the blower still works perfect in all modes for any length of time,
i will put a pic up to show this easy fix, regards frank
.edit.
you can see top left where i soldered on a link from the diode to the pin,
happy to share this hope it helps someone out
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