406 Heated Rear Window 'issues'

[ozfrog]

Hello learned people!

After the auto electrician repaired the cabin blower fan in my D9 1999 406 a few months ago, I noticed that the heated rear window was turning off almost immediately after being turned on. He replaced two parts as pictured below, plus he did some repairs to wiring.

I've done a search on this forum and I came across one thread where the 406 heated rear window was being talked about, but this person's window wasn't functioning at all. viewtopic.php?p=98132&hilit=406+rear+window#p98132

Nevertheless, I think that the solution put forward is probably applicable to my car as well, even though this timer had been functioning 'as intended' prior to the car going to the auto electrician. I suppose I would like to know three things.

• Where is the timer referred to in the above thread located?

• Is it possible that in rewiring the cabin blower fan, the auto electrician has either bypassed the timer for the heated rear window, or worse, blown it? and

• How long is the timer set to leave the heated rear window heating? (I think it is 10-15 minutes, but if I can get a more accurate guide, I'd appreciate it.)

If you think I need to arm myself with any other information before I go back to the auto electrician in the morning, please let me know that, too.

Sorry about the size of the attached images. I was getting quite frustrated with various websites trying to resize the images to a suitable size. I don't think that this board's software has any in-built tools. If it does, then I'm sorry for missing it.


Climate Control Unit Peugeot 406


Heater Blower Motor Resistor

[PaulC5]

Sorry I can not help with the problem but to reduce file sizes of photos I open them on my pc and then edit them to a smaller file size, save with a new name and then attach it to the forum post. No need to use any web programmes to do this.

[myglaren]

I use the Gimp, free photoshop type thing.

[ozfrog]

Sorry I can not help with the problem but to reduce file sizes of photos I open them on my pc and then edit them to a smaller file size, save with a new name and then attach it to the forum post. No need to use any web programmes to do this.

Thanks, I thought of this method after I'd gone to bed. I didn't feel like getting up to fix them, especially since I had to be up early - and in the cold (for Australia) weather. I know you Brits can handle this weather, but I can't!

[ozfrog]

I use the Gimp, free photoshop type thing.

Sure. I have it on my Mac. But sledgehammer to hit a nail? Still, if that's your preferred method …

If I used GIMP to do this, I'd be using it simply for the practice of using GIMP because it isn't a tool I use very often.

[Rp0thejester]

I'm assuming you have checked and double checked the fuses. Also, why do you need a heated rear window in what is basically a desert?

[ozfrog]

I'm assuming you have checked and double checked the fuses.

You assume correctly on this occasion.

Also, why do you need a heated rear window in what is basically a desert?

I don't know if you were trying to be funny or not.

I also don't know if you have been to Australia or not.

However, if you have been to Australia, you show a remarkable ignorance about the country. And your attempt at humour was very poor. Frankly, most Australians who I know are tired of hearing ill-informed 'jokes' about the country from even less-informed people who think they know about our country.

But if you want a more serious answer to your question, we have seasons in this country, and especially in the part of the country I live in. And there is no desert within 1500 kilometres, probably more, of where I live.

[ozfrog]

And the news is that the timer is built into the control panel.

That part was ordered and fitted because the auto electrician couldn't get a clean signal from my non-functioning fan speed resistor to the control panel that was at that time fitted to my car. He said today that he asked me to source that part rather than get just the resistor, fit it, and then discover that there was a problem with the control panel as well. If there had been such a problem, it would have caused further delay. I understand his logic and appreciate what he did.

When all of his other testing and tracing wires and checking voltages etc didn't reveal the timer, he concluded that the timer must be in the control panel. And of course, he wanted to know if I still had my original part. Thankfully, I did, but not with me. It was at home, some 60 kilometres each way from his workshop! And with the 'delightful' weather today, that trip was over an hour each way, instead of the usual just under 40 minutes. The rain wasn't quite torrential, but combined with the wind, and trees being blown over, it was a hazardous journey, to say the least!

Anyway, once he had my original part fitted, the rear window demister turned on - and stayed on! And on the drive home, it duly turned itself off after about 15 minutes, just as it should have done.

He didn't charge me for the work today. He said that he should have tested every bit of the replacement control panel that I purchased from eBay, but he didn't do that, even though it is something he would usually do. (Based on all of the reports I received about him, and what convinced me to go to him, was because he is thorough. When he told me today that he hadn't tested the replacement control panel, I was quite shocked.)

Now my job is to try and get recompense from an eBay seller after the 'return window' has closed.

But if anyone ever asks you where that timer is located …