Re: E30 Fan One speed only

["Jason McCowan" <JMCCOWAN@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:55:28 -0700
>From: Jonathan Schwartz <jbschwartz@domain.elided>
>Subject: E30 Fan One speed only
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>Hi folks.  Any obvious answers to why the heater fan only works on the high
>speed setting?  Last time this happened, simply running the fan switch
>briskly thru the low to hi settings several times seemed to fix the ..at
>least temporarily.  I chalked it up to dirty contacts.  This trick doesn't
>work now.

It sounds like the resister is bad.  The part only cost's ~$15, and you can
fix it yourself pretty easily..  BMW deliberately made it so that the fan
would work on the high setting if the resister broke, that way you still
have heat/defrost.

jason mccowan
ncc

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