Defender TD5 heater blower & cig lighter failure
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My heater blower & cig lighter packed up at the weekend, So the missus is complaining about the cold and the nipper can't charge his phone!
I've checked the blower and it's not seized and given the cig lighter doesn't work either, I think it's a connection problem as they are both on fuse 16 - the fuse is not blown and power is getting through. The earth seems to be a sort of multiplug in the engine bay.
Any ideas? I don't have a multimeter, just one of those probe test light things.
I've checked the blower and it's not seized and given the cig lighter doesn't work either, I think it's a connection problem as they are both on fuse 16 - the fuse is not blown and power is getting through. The earth seems to be a sort of multiplug in the engine bay.
Any ideas? I don't have a multimeter, just one of those probe test light things.
I checked the earth and that was ok so took it to a local independent garage for further investigation.
Turns out the resistor was broken and the heater flaps were sticking. They had to remove the dash, replace the resistor and free the sticking flaps. What I thought might be a simple task turned into a €700+ job! 3.5hrs to diagnose it, 4.5hrs to fix it + 86€ for the part.
Turns out the resistor was broken and the heater flaps were sticking. They had to remove the dash, replace the resistor and free the sticking flaps. What I thought might be a simple task turned into a €700+ job! 3.5hrs to diagnose it, 4.5hrs to fix it + 86€ for the part.
Edited by Sisu9 on Wednesday 2nd February 07:49
t of a job. It’s like someone at LR found a heater and thought “Hey I know! Let’s build a car round this!”The Heater resistor pack was a regular rinse and repeat replacement on my old 110 TDCi CSW. luckily the 1st two failures were under approved sales warranty and the 1 year replacement part cover, then it failed again over a year or so later. Hope the Td5 resistor pack is more robust than the later TDCi version.
The garage just called to say that only one of the blowers now works. Seemingly the fan in the engine doesn't work and they can't get the part anymore. I hadn't realised there were two blowers.
They think the part number is for the engine blower resistor is UTP1282. If they can get the part they are quoting 290€ for the labour and 111€ for the part. Wonder if I can do this myself.
So all up this could turn into a 1000€ job. Here's me thinking Land Rover ownership would be at least a little but cheaper than Porsche ownership
They think the part number is for the engine blower resistor is UTP1282. If they can get the part they are quoting 290€ for the labour and 111€ for the part. Wonder if I can do this myself.
So all up this could turn into a 1000€ job. Here's me thinking Land Rover ownership would be at least a little but cheaper than Porsche ownership
Sisu9 said:
The garage just called to say that only one of the blowers now works. Seemingly the fan in the engine doesn't work and they can't get the part anymore. I hadn't realised there were two blowers.
Eh?I’d get them to clarify what they’re on about.
There is only one fan/blower for the interior and one for engine cooling.
They aren’t connected in anyway apart from being bolted to the same vehicle.
Just to follow up on this. It was the resistor that was broken. The garage ordered a new one and now the heater blower is working again. Now I just need to put the fascia, ignition cowl and fuse box area back together properly as they seem to have, ahem, done this either in the dark or in an extreme hurry!
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