"DervMan" wrote in message
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I seem to recall that this is a fairly common fault and easy to fix.

Sounds like the heater resistor pack to me, usually mounted somewhere in the
heater's airflow.
Usually £20-ish and a bit of soldering for Fords, I've never done a Saab


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Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...

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"Elder" wrote in message
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Or of course, similar to what you already have, but an automatic...

And a bit newer and maybe slightly more reliable.

Nipped out at dinner, and the blower fan control packed up.
Now it runs full on all the time.

You can control the temp and the direction but not the speed.

Switch off the ACC and the fan keeps blowing.
Only goes off with the ignition.


I seem to recall that this is a fairly common fault and easy to fix.


Easier on non aircon models. Unless you have 6 arms, the aircon stuff
needs to come out. The aircon that I recently had regassed.

You need to remove the wipers, the aquarium cover, the aircon, then you
can get to the blower resistor pack and change it, if it hasn't melted
the connector block to the loom before it packed in.
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"DervMan" wrote in message
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I seem to recall that this is a fairly common fault and easy to fix.

Sounds like the heater resistor pack to me, usually mounted somewhere in the
heater's airflow.
Usually £20-ish and a bit of soldering for Fords, I've never done a Saab



One of these for a 9000 and a couple of hours work and an aircon regas
if you are doing it yourself.
http://www.partsforsaabs.com/product...oducts_id=1925

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"Elder" wrote in message
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One of these for a 9000 and a couple of hours work and an aircon regas
if you are doing it yourself.
http://www.partsforsaabs.com/product...oducts_id=1925

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Bugger

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"Elder" wrote in message
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One of these for a 9000 and a couple of hours work and an aircon regas
if you are doing it yourself.
http://www.partsforsaabs.com/product...oducts_id=1925

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Bugger


As I understand it, if you have extra hands available and small hands,
and a bit of luck, you can lift the hoses and bits out of the and pray
you don't break anything while squeezing stuff out of the way, but on
your own it is disconnnect time.

On the non AC one, it is still fiddly because you might need to remove
the bonnet or climb on top of the engine to get into the aquarium the
plastic covered section behind the false bulkhead.
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Elder wrote:
If the details are right and it has full history?
http://smallr.com/3d5

Just get an MX-5 and be done with it.


No no, if you want _that_ sort of car, get a Ka...


Dervy - what's the Ka like for mpg so long as it's not caned? My missus
tested one yesterday and fell in love with it.

I'm going to buy an older MX-5 that I can play with and mod, and a Ka
for the missus as she likes them. Should have them both by the middle of
next week.

I would struggle to get 38mpg on a long run, being careful. I thought
that was wank. The same sort of run at the same speeds in my MK2 brings
up 45mpg or so.


It sounds very much like yours was broken.

Nothing at all wrong with it. There's no real margin between working and
broken on a modern car - not like an old carb'ed car or even a MK2 Golf
where the timing can be a mile out. I'm the same in anything with a small
engine - I try to make it move the rate a car with a decent engine would
cruise at. TBH 4mpg in it between your driving like a corpse lifetime
average and my must do 60mph cross country run sounds about right. But it
still stands that the MK2 will do the same sort of run and use rather less
fuel.

"Elder" wrote in message
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As I understand it, if you have extra hands available and small hands,
and a bit of luck, you can lift the hoses and bits out of the and pray
you don't break anything while squeezing stuff out of the way, but on
your own it is disconnnect time.

On the non AC one, it is still fiddly because you might need to remove
the bonnet or climb on top of the engine to get into the aquarium the
plastic covered section behind the false bulkhead.

WTF is "The aquarium" ?

On 18 Jul, 20:12, Timo Geusch
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On 17 Jul, 20:24, Timo Geusch
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Incidentally, the temperature gauge decided it didn't want to work on
the Passat last night - definitely enough coolant in it, the heater
was running hot and it was driving as well as ever, so yet again it's
going to have to go back to the dealers this week with suspected body
computer issues.

I didn't touch it...

Seriously, it was working fine on the way over and completely dead on
the way back.

They all do that, sir

First VW I've had that's done this, and most of the others were higher
mileage, used a lot more and were older pro rata.

Hopefully it's just 'one of those things' and not an indication of any
cost cutting VW had exercised by the time they'd introduced the B5.5.

Yesterday morning it was working as per normal and that nice man at
the dealers seems to think a temperature sensor supplied and fitted by
them will sort it out when it goes in for its six month service next
week.

That'll be modern electronics for you.

Aye... well the car still seems happy enough, so it can stay like it
til the garage have had their greasy mitts on it.

but it's probably telling you that you really want a
nice A8.

LOL... we shall see. *I still think you're better off binning all the
Jap tat you never use and keep that and the MX5 until it's time to
head off the sunnier climes.

Well, there are plans afoot to get rid of the "Jap tat" but I'd probably
end up with a slightly improved "VW Beetle"...

Ah yes... well that's probably what I'd do. If finances allow, I'd
still keep the A8 for now though until the new beast is bought and run
enough to prove it's worthy.

That, and I'd be happy to leave something like an A8 parked up day
after day in a station car park, but I'm not so sure I'd want to do
the same with a classic Porsche, or even the MX5 given the soft top.

BTW, the deal with that M3 fell through as the bloke had someone turn up
with the cash. Probably better that way.

Smelt really funny to me from what you said... as you say, better that
way.

I wasn't too offended that the guy had sold it. Actually I wasn't too
surprised that he clammed up after I had sent him a copy of the HPI
report...

Aye... was probably hoping you were so keen to get into it you
wouldn't bother getting it checked.

Oh, and one of the fans is a tad noisy as you said but I don't think
it's too bad. Now that I've managed to liberate a second SATA cable from
PC Woe I've started the installation...

Okey dokey - let me know which one it is, i.e: is it the PSU or the
processor, and I'll sort out a replacement in the nearish future. :-)

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JackH

"Doki" wrote in message
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It sounds very much like yours was broken.

Nothing at all wrong with it. There's no real margin between working and
broken on a modern car - not like an old carb'ed car or even a MK2 Golf
where the timing can be a mile out.

Unlike, say, a 406 estate where you can have a couple of problems sapping
several MPG? :-)

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"Elder" wrote in message
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As I understand it, if you have extra hands available and small hands,
and a bit of luck, you can lift the hoses and bits out of the and pray
you don't break anything while squeezing stuff out of the way, but on
your own it is disconnnect time.

On the non AC one, it is still fiddly because you might need to remove
the bonnet or climb on top of the engine to get into the aquarium the
plastic covered section behind the false bulkhead.

WTF is "The aquarium" ?


The plastic capped area between the false bulkhead and the real bulkhead
where a lot the AC stuff, the wiper gear and wipers, and the blower
motor are hidden. Called the aquarium because the drains block with gunk
and leaves which tends to cause it to hold water.
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Carl Robson
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