Heater problems

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Millhouse
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Post Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:14 am

Very noisy heater and only works on 2 and 4 can I just give the fan a oil ?
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Rich320I
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Post Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:41 am

yes, the bearings run dry. easy to do, just remove the cover panel and the fan is obvious. grease it up properly and away you go. there is a guide in the wiki on locating and removing the fan if you get stuck.
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Post Wed Aug 28, 2013 12:47 pm

What about the fan speed ? As only working on 2 and 4
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Post Wed Aug 28, 2013 12:50 pm

it is most likely as described above,

read this for more information


http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/inde ... nly_on_Max
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Post Wed Aug 28, 2013 6:25 pm

Cheers helped a lot time to get the tools out I think
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Post Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:26 pm

Ok so update

Changed the fan for a nice quite one and the resister all worked fine then nothing so looked and looked again fuse blown so replaced and now the fan is only working on 4 the resister was from BMW so not a cheap one I no the fan works so what else could be making it just work on speed 4 ?