It has been found that switch contact break down and many other elctrical problems are a direct resault of cigarte smoke. I would be interersting to see if there is any connection been these issuse. Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 86-SS Syncro Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler 92-Jetta GWC www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Tolga Morawski wrote: > Well, easier said than done as cleaning the contacts entail disassembly > of the whole dash to get at the blower. If you went that far I would > replace the blower with a new one. I recently did that and at the same > time did clean and/or replace a lot of the spade connectors so hopefully > it'll keep things going a few years without problems. We'll see. > > >Would it be helpful to clean the contacts on the heater blower itself > >including the ground? > >Perhaps 15yrs of oxidation on the terminals may be causing some resistance. > > > >doug > |
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