About a week ago my wife was driving the van and the blower stopped working. She said that when she pulled into the driveway and the van "bumped" up onto the concrete that it started working again. I checked the setting she had it on (3) and figured it was probably the resistor... sure enough, the resistor has some cracks in it, so I'm getting another one next week from the dealer.
Fast forward to today when she said the blower refused to come on even though it was on 4 when she started the van (I'd explained to her the resistor problem). This symptom seems to take the resistor out of the equation for this problem, according to my understanding of how it works... However, when one of the kids shut the side door and it rocked the van, it started working again... So, it seems to be somewhat loose-connection related... maybe
I've checked the connection for the resistor and it seems to be fine, and nothing *feels* loose around the blower motor connection, but I haven't pulled it apart yet. Where are the "normal" trouble spots for loose connections for the motor/connectors? FWIW, the van is a 2004, but it only has around 61K on it.
Thanks for any help you guys can provide.
- Rob
Fast forward to today when she said the blower refused to come on even though it was on 4 when she started the van (I'd explained to her the resistor problem). This symptom seems to take the resistor out of the equation for this problem, according to my understanding of how it works... However, when one of the kids shut the side door and it rocked the van, it started working again... So, it seems to be somewhat loose-connection related... maybe
I've checked the connection for the resistor and it seems to be fine, and nothing *feels* loose around the blower motor connection, but I haven't pulled it apart yet. Where are the "normal" trouble spots for loose connections for the motor/connectors? FWIW, the van is a 2004, but it only has around 61K on it.
Thanks for any help you guys can provide.
- Rob