Discovery Sport heater fan

[Phil.]

The person above with a LHD DS suggests you can’t see the fan through the larger battery flap, rather look through the small flap on the left (passenger side) and then look right towards the drivers side. Hope this helps.

[Abbott]

Phil. said:

The person above with a LHD DS suggests you can’t see the fan through the larger battery flap, rather look through the small flap on the left (passenger side) and then look right towards the drivers side. Hope this helps.

The last 2 photos are the view through the other hole on the opposite side of the battery

[Phil.]

My mistake. On the RHS DS the fan is located vertically, directly in front of the driver at about knee to waist height, close to the bulk head.

[Abbott]

diego_private said:

Thank you so much for this thread @Phil!

It took me quite some time to find the fan, so here for all left-side steering vehicle owners:

You have to enter on the other side through the small service flap an look to the right. There is a small hole where you can see the fan and turn it. From the other side it is not possible:



Greetings

Edited by diego_private on Friday 6th January 16:44

Hi Diego_Private any chance you can post a photo of the fan you can see through the small flap on the left please

[Abbott]

After finding some photos on Ebay i managed to work out the position of things behind the scuttle and finally solve the problem.

For LHD vehicles you have to go in through the small inspection flap on the LH side as you stand infront of the car looking at the engine bay

Make sure ignition is off. Unclip and remove the flap.

If you look in through the hole looking towards the centre of the car you should see this:



There is a black sheet metal flap at 45 degree in front of another aperture. You need to get your hand in and bend the metal flap down bit so that you can get a clearer access to the hole behind.

I used a piece of bamboo as a probe stick. Feed the stick through the hole behind the metal flap and gently push against what is at the end of the hole.
I did it quite gently, not wanting to break anything, but also tried it at slightly different angles.

Remove the stick and then see if the fan works. If not try again.

The only improvement I could imagine is to use a Endosope camera linked to your Phone to actually see into the whole.
Not worked out how to lubricate the part yet.

Good luck

[Phil.]

Thanks for the LHD update