Head Gasket and head repair
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hungryhound69
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Re: Head Gasket and head repair
The 50% fan turns on if a/c is on, no matter the temperature of the coolant. And it would stay on at 50% but after it gets to above 90C, not straight away it has to stay there for a while I would get the active status on low speed relay and 58% on fan demand but 0% on the fan, but sometimes the fan is running sometimes it isn't. Tapping on the control module (1267j4) or wiggling the wires makes no difference. Eventually after 10-15 seconds the high speed fan would turn on if the slow fan isn't running. But while it gets active status on high speed and 100% on fan demand the fan speed continues to show 0% for 10-15 seconds or there about. And each time this happens and it seems a rare event I get the P0485 code. This morning I tried to recreate it and it took a long time as it's about 9C outside while yesterday it was around 16C in the afternoon so it happen sooner. Monitoring with LEXIA is too bulky while driving so I have a Bluetooth dongle to monitor through my phone. But the events are quite consistent. What is puzzling is that sometimes when the fan is clearly spinning it shows 0% for the fan. I'm wondering it it's the control module, but if it was a stuck relay then tapping it should do something.
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ozvtr
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Re: Head Gasket and head repair
It sounds like it's the module.
There might not be any relays in the module. The fans could be run by transistors.
There might not be any relays in the module. The fans could be run by transistors.
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hungryhound69
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Re: Head Gasket and head repair
If you pull up the schematic it shows relays. In any case I swapped it for a cheap Chinese unit I bought off amazon for 17EUR and lo and behold the weird behaviour vanished. I drove the car for over an hour and then today through the city stopping and parking so the temperature went up to 105C when a slow fan kicked in. Otherwise no error codes or phantom fans. So it was the control unit So I ordered a MOPAR unit since I don't trust the cheap Chinese one.