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Old 10-03-2006, 01:10 AM
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Okay its kinda hard to explain. My heater acts up and its works fine w sometimes when am just sitting in my driveway and sometimes it doesnt work at all...... But when am driving down the road it will be fine and then when i go and make a trun it will completly trun off and when i go back to haveing the streering wheel stright again it will be fine and if i make so many number truns it will completly trun off.... and wont trun on for while... does anyone know what would be wrong with it? I replaced switch and that didnt work... any idea would be great thanks....
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is it a air flow problem, where the air gets weaker or stronger as you make the turns and such?
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yeah it gets weaker and strong as i make truns then truns completly off
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its also the same when using the AC
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i would have to suspect a loose connection somewhere in the car, or the blower motor giving out....i would have to suspect the latter tho
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okay thanks so i should look for a loose wire? but couldnt that be anywhere? would it be easier to just take it in and get it checked by a professenal? or is it easy track the wires? because some wires are impossable to follow...
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yea i had the same problem... mine was the blower motor it costed me $25 at a junk yard and about 20 mins to install... biggest problem was the strut support bar.

but maybe a loose connection too...
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my uncle told me it might be a rely? you guys think it could be that or is that already ruled out?
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Easy way to tell. when it stops working. Hop out and tap the blower motor casing. If it starts back up. Motor is the issue.

I recently changed mine. Remove the strut bar and the metal bracket on the back of the engine and it flips out and the new one jumps in.
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Sure sounds like a bad blower motor. Unless you are really broke, this is not the best item to get from a junkyard. A new motor is around $40, I think, and unless you luck out at the yard and get one that was recently changed, it will fail sooner than a new one. On the other hand, they are very easy to change out.


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