No fans or heated seats in Antara

No fans or heated seats in Antara

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Yanayaya

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189 months

Sunday 3rd February 2019
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Like most people, we've had a lot of snow and it's perfect weather for owning an Antara. Sadly ours has run into a few issues recently on top of it's already crazy garage bill for various things. Last week an abs sensor failed and the garage had great delight in charging us over £400 to replace it, the joys.

Anyway, yesterday a few issues appeared whilst driving home from work.

1: The washer jets stop spraying although the wipers still worked
2: The heated seats stopped working and the lights on the heated seat switches no longer show.
3: The heater fan no longer goes on at all, so you cannot control temperature, speed...anything, it just doesn't work.

Keeping things simple I started checking fuses. I checked every fuse in the engine bay and they are all perfect, I can't account for relays obviously because I can't visually tell. I moved to check the interior fuses in the footwell and found 3 that had blown. Oddly the heated seats fuse was in tact.

1: AIRCON - 10A
2: WHL S/W - 2A
3: FRT/WASH - 10A

Replacing number 3 in my list gave me back the washer jets, so, no drama there. Replacing the AIRCON gave me back my fans but only for about 10 seconds and it popped again (never even started the car). So I put another 10A fuse into AIRCON and turned the ignition on but didn't start it, popped again.

I tried removing the AIRCON CONDENSOR relay from the engine bay fuse board to prevent the car trying to use it but it still popped the 10A AIRCON fuse inside the car.

I'm now left with the following issues and I need some help desperately.

1: No heated seats despite a healthy fuse (Internal)
2: No fans because of a constantly popping AC fuse (Internal)

Has anyone had problems like this and does anyone have ideas as to what could be causing this fuse to pop in this manner. I don't want to put anymore in, kinda running out and there is clearly a problem.

Thanks in advance for any guidance on this.