Re: '87 325iC - acceleration and and blower motor

[Ben Ruset <bruset@xxxxxxxx>]

At 02:32 PM 8/9/00 -0500, Drew Mouton wrote:

>2.) Second problem - when I got the car, the AC blower didn't work. No 
>response from the control on the console. I removed the blower motor, 
>applied current to the contacts and the fan blew fine. I cleaned it and 
>put it back in, and now it can be controlled from the console - except 
>that it only clicks on at full-speed (level "4"). 
>
>Is fan speed regulated on the blower motor, on on the console? Is it 
>possible that there's a bad bus on the blower motor that's only clicking 
>it on when full current is applied?

Could it be a bad relay? I believe that when the a/c relay failed on the
Volkswagen Corrado (which is the car that I am coming from into the BMW
world) it would do things similar to that.

Just a thought.

- -ben

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