heater fan and hazard lights not working - help please
heater fan and hazard lights not working - help please
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Fimbo

Original Poster:

313 posts

257 months

Thursday 11th June 2009
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i've checked all the fuses and they all appear to be working. The hazard lights and heater appear to be on different circuits (no.6 and No.28 respectively). Any ideas where i might look next?

Mark A S

2,091 posts

217 months

Thursday 11th June 2009
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When my hazards stopped working, it was the big plug on the back of the dash that was very lightly loose.
Don’t think this is connected to the fan, I have herd that this stops working if the heat/cool flap motor goes tits up ??

Macey

1,326 posts

222 months

Thursday 11th June 2009
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My heater fan doesn't work either, it's control box is located in the passenger footwell. It's a common problem with the connection that seems to overheat. There is a topic on here somewhere about how to fix it but not done mine yet. Do not know regards to the hazard lights though.

Macey

Edited by Macey on Thursday 11th June 14:26

Fimbo

Original Poster:

313 posts

257 months

Thursday 11th June 2009
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Thanks for your replies. I'll investigate. I assume by box you are referring to a relay on the fuse board beneath the steering column. Cheers

Macey

1,326 posts

222 months

Thursday 11th June 2009
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Fimbo,
No, on the passenger side in mine, 2001 mk1, there is a black box with a 20 pin plug going in, it is marked up as heater control (i think) one of the wires gets hot and causes a bad connection hence it stops working. I know of others that have managed to clean the pins on the box and it started working again, will get round to doing mine at some stage but prefer to drive it.

Macey

eta, search facility not working at the mo, will look it up when it is back up.

Edited by Macey on Thursday 11th June 19:33

dvs_dave

9,040 posts

254 months

Saturday 13th June 2009
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^^^Wot he said.

The power pin (large black cable) connection overheats and causes a bad contact on the pin causing the motor to stop working. Take the connector off, clean up the pin and socket, put a bit of copper grease on it to improve the connection and it should sort it.

Fimbo

Original Poster:

313 posts

257 months

Monday 15th June 2009
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thanks for correcting me.