air con or fans given up?

[wilsonf1]

I'm in my Exige right now and with the knobs set to coldest, level 3, air con button lit up, and direction of fans towards me, not the windscreen, the fans are doing sod all!

I can feel cold air, but it doesn't matter what setting I put the fan on its just trickling out

I used it temporarily on the way to le man's but that is it since I got the car 4 weeks ago

Is this a common problem?

[Thorburn]

Rain water can get in to the heater controls and causes them to fail over time, causing you to lose fan speeds.

Techwiki article here - http://wiki.seloc.org/a/Heater_Actuator_Replacemen... - but it's not the most comprehensive. Gets asked about quite a bit in the technical section of the forums over on SELOC.

[wilsonf1]

So £45 to go with the £40 or so quid for remote locking unit that needs replacing.

I think I'll get Castle Lotus to do it near Stansted. Hopefully it won;t take them too long!!!

Thanks for that

[Thorburn]

wilsonf1 said:

So £45 to go with the £40 or so quid for remote locking unit that needs replacing.

I think I'll get Castle Lotus to do it near Stansted. Hopefully it won;t take them too long!!!

Thanks for that

I think it may well be a clam off job to replace - couldn't remember the name of the thing before and posted up the wrong link. It's the resistor pack which fails.

http://wiki.seloc.org/a/Resistor_pack#Installation...

[rm0rgan]

On an S2 Exige it is indeed a clam off job - depending where you are expect £600 min in labour - add parts and a regas that will make it near £750 as I had it done recently

Top tip: Change the Rad and tow strut if it looks a bit rusty whilst the clam is off as you will only want to do it in the future ;-)

[wilsonf1]

Ouch, not what I wanted to hear.

I got mine from a dealer in Surrey only a month ago and have a 6 month warranty. Best get it back down there then I suppose...

[linkup1234]

Possibly heater matrix and it's a clam off and I did change to an alloy rad given the clam off cost was factored in already....

[21TonyK]

Exactly the same problem here. Will DIY it, just keep putting it off. Calm on/off shouldn't be more than a days work, just a PITA the aircon needs to be de/re-gassed as part of it. Anyone got a pointer to a step-by-step better than the seloc wiki?

[rm0rgan]

One of the guys did a step by step recently on seloc. Can't bloody remember who it was but will be in the search somewhere. :-)

[LivinLaVidaLotus]

CDL unit, the official way is dash off to do it - although you can do it through the right hand air outlet if you've got thin wrists and don't mind being cut to pieces. Did mine not so long back.

[wilsonf1]

Thanks for all your posts, but I found a better solution to the over heating in the cockpit...



That's the first time I've had the roof off since getting it.

No in all seriousness, it's going back to the dealer when I go on holiday next month and they can sort it...

[Frimley111R]

rm0rgan said:

One of the guys did a step by step recently on seloc. Can't bloody remember who it was but will be in the search somewhere. :-)

Me! Did it over winter. Its long thread but far more detailed than the wiki. People can do it in 7hrs but I took a few months as it was winter and when it got cold I buggered off indoors . Its easy enough, you need patience and time but no special skills. I'd also come up with a way to avoid it happening again (zero cost).

At c£700 for labour (part is only £30) I decided to DIY it having not done much more than service a car in the past. You can change other stuff whilst you are there but I didn't. You can end up spending £700 on precautionary parts which defeats the object of what you're doing really. Anyway...

Link is here: http://forums.seloc.org/viewthread.php?tid=322566&...