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Fuse/Relay Location - Cabin Fan Blower not working!

Pheo

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As noted by some other members, SEATs user manual is useless when it comes to fuses.

As is par for the course on the hottest day of the year so far, my blower won't work so can't use the aircon! [:@]

Does anyone know where exactly the fuse is located so I can check it?
 
Havent got the info rightr now but cant you just look at every fuse, its pretty obvious when blown? So that means the box in the engine bay, and on the passenger end of the dash.
 
Couldn't even find the fusebox, fat lot of good the manual is.

Nothing blown in either box, willl have to get it on the diag machine.
 
Yes I have. Controls are working and it's actuating, can hear it moving around, just no blower!

Techie do you know whereabouts it is? The blower that is!
 
Blower is under the passenger footwell you have to remove the plastic trim under the glovebox, sometimes the connectors just pop out, worth looking.
 
If you have manual controls then the resistor pack can commonly fail but it would still work on full power, I've seen a fair few leons with siezed fans due to water ingress. You can check it by removing the fan and seeing if it turns freely.
 
Cheers guys.

got the plastic off, cable still plugged in. Couldn't work out how to get to the fan though (i.e. get it out). There seemed to be an all once piece plastic cover. Plus I need to get ready to go out! No sign out of the motor though, and VCDS confirming its delivering 8.2v to it, to no response. Everything else seems to be working ok though.

One interesting potential other problem is with one of the radiator fans - running the diagnostic, made both radiator fans spin up. Actual vs Spec Fan Speed 100% was reported as 84.4% vs 100%. And while spinning up one of the fans made a lot of noise. I guess the bearing has gone and it needs replacing!
 
The fan just rotates in the direction of the arrow next to it and drops out, might be one small screw to remove first.
 
Ah, was getting a bit dim by this point, and as it was black plastic mounted on black plastic, couldn't see anything. Also had my legs sticking out into the road which was a bit hairy.

I have a third party warranty on this, so will probably just report the fault to them, and use my diagnostics to make sure its done quickly and efficiently.

Thanks for all your help!
 
Managed to fix it for now - got the fan out (turn it as Techie says), was very stiff. 3 in 1'd the bearing / shaft, and cleaned the corrosion off the power connector... I think it must have got damp at some point.

Sounds a little squeaky, but figure doing this will probably work for a fair old while, till I can source a replacement (have found it in Valeo's catalogue)
 
You can get to the bearing at the other end too, it does come out of the retaining plastic, remove the rubber cover to allow the wiring and connector thru.

Search and you will find similar posts.
 
Couldn't find anything related on a relatively extensive search - maybe I'm not guessing the right keywords.

Motor is back in the car as it was getting dark. I'll look at pulling it out and seeing if I can oil the other bearing at the weekend - looked sealed up pretty tight!
 
Cheers. The reconditioning idea is a good one, might look into that.
 
Just fixed my blower by removing it and cleaning the corrosion.

Thanks, Techie.
 
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