Air con fan

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skycar
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Air con fan

Unread post by skycar »

Hi to all here,
I have a 2015 Diesel C5 and I live in Brisbane Qld Australia. As you might know we had unprecedented rain here in the past few days. My car is kept on the street as there's no room in the shed (disappointingly).
My car wasn't flooded in the torrential downpour for those days. The Air-con system worked perfectly up until this event.
My Fan/Blower doesn't work at all, I've checked the 40 amp fuse (#F11 from memory) and it's good, the main COLD line from the compressor has icing around it, (therefore the compressor is working).
All I can think of is the Relay might have given up ?
Where can I find the relay that controls the Fan/Blower to eliminate that please?
Any other trouble shooting or common faults that are known of please share with me?
Many thanks in advance for your Help/Replies.
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GiveMeABreak
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Re: Air con fan

Unread post by GiveMeABreak »

Have a look at my post here:

viewtopic.php?p=499891#p499891

This shows the location of the Blower Motor Control Module. It is on the left hand side (the photos show a left hand drive, but is the same location regardless). I can't remember now if you lot drive on the wrong side of the road! :-D

You day it wasn't flooded, but what can happen is that water condensation or moisture can get into the fan motor bearings and cause it to slightly seize. As the fan motor is designed to slowly spin up, if it has seized slightly, there isn't enough 'welly' to get it going. I suspect with the amount of water, the climate and temperature was enough to cause an issue.
Please note, I'm no longer active on the Forum, so won't respond to messages.

Marc
skycar
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Re: Air con fan

Unread post by skycar »

Thanks Marc for your info above, and we do drive RHS (not the wrong side). I took the covers off as shown and can see the side with the connectors, but there isn't access to the fan to give it a spin by hand to free it up.
Does this require the dash to come out or similar? Any thoughts on how to free it up?
Many thanks for your time here.