Fan/Blower switch not working

[Zippee]

Went to de-mist my windscreen today, pressed the switch and nothing... any ideas before I have to try and take the dash off?
Everything else works (indicators, lights, fogs etc.) so if it were a fuse I guess it'd have to be a standalone. Anyone know if this is the case on the chim?

[Zumbruk]

Apparently, there's a factory mod fuse on the later Chims that covers the fan motor only. My fan failed last year, and I put off doing anything about it because of the difficulty of getting at it. Anyhow, it was in for a service a couple of weeks ago, and they said they'd found a blown fuse supplying the motor, replaced it, and bingo! I can see.

And no, I have no idea where it is. Sorry.

[crispian22]

had the same problem with my 98 chim,it turned out to be the control box thats situated behind the dash,they suffer from a problem with the main power feed connector,you'll soon know if it's that as the connector on mine was a wee bit burnt due to a faulty connection.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Mines fecked to, but if I smack the dashboard top it'll run until I hit the next bump.

[mb450]

I recently fixed mine. The symptoms were the same. My controlbox connector had burnt out (second time this has happened) root cause blower motor packing up and increasing resistance. Fixed it by remaking conections and cleaning up pins to controller and replacing fan motor (the second part actually took longer than when I took both heads off the car and rebuilt to top of the engine). The controller on later cars (mine is a 1999) is under the dash in the middle (a little black metal box) the blower is in the passenger footwell to the left of the battery box (which you will have to remove) behind a silkaflex sealed and riveted fiberglas flap. I got a new blower from local motor factor but I think it is from an astra not 100% on that though.

If you need pictures of the fans location let me know