Heater Blower Motor Resistor Repaired For £15.

[fatgut]

Have the 2003 2.0 hdi, with the old style connector plug. Did a google search and found blower-motor-resistor.co.uk, they repaired it and sent it back for £13.50. It took a week, I spent £1.50 to post it there, covered by Royal Mail for £48 value. They have worked wonders on it, fully functional again, and no hassle having to cut off the old connector block and fit on the new style one which would have come with the new resistor if I had gone down that expensive route.

Hardest part for me was finding where it was in the car - loads of misleading rubbish on the 'net out there - think it must relate to the climate control model. On the Yahoo C5 site click on 'Photos' in left hand column, go to TontonJon's Photos (on page 3), Picture Fan Control 02 shows exactly where resistor is in LEFT side footwell. Drop the black material cover under the glove box first_- the plastic clip thing just has to be turned 90 degrees then pull it down to remove. Then just slide down the red clip on the resistor and pull resistor straight out by hand, was a bit stiff on mine but I managed. A 5 minute job to remove once you know where to look!(Torch required even in daytime).

Don't worry about not having resistor in whilst it is being repaired as blower still will work on setting 4 (ie gale force 10).I wish I'd done this job months ago, it was so easy.