Acouple Of Things!

[romseygalaxy]

I need to change the aux belt on my 95 2.0 petrol with air con. Is it easy? and secondly, air con stopped working. I have manual air con, push the button, light comes on, but nothing happens?. I noticed that the 30 amp, 3rd position blower (??) fuse in the aux fuse box under the bonnet had blown also, changed it and seems to make no difference to anything.

 

Any ideas on both please.

 

Kev

[Neils TDi again]

Nothing happening when selecting Air Con normally indicates that the pressure switch is not recording a differential pressure therefor its possible you need to "re-gas" but this normally caused by a leak so it needs to be checked.

 

FUse 30 blown, mainly due to a faulty resister pack in the blower box. if you select high speed on your fan it will probably blow again.

 

Both need repair / replacing.

[romseygalaxy]

Thanx, the Gal is probably worth 50p so as much as I love and cherish her, the aire con is gona have to stay broken as there is a credit crunch on and my finances are currently 'sub prime'!.

 

Re the resistor pack, can you enlighten me further please?

 

Kev

[Neils TDi again]

The resistor pack acts as a voltage splitter for the different speeds and is normally located in the air plenum so the flow of air in the fan cool sthe resister and stops it melting, if it fails it melts as the fan begins to run ever slower. Vicous circle the fan is controlled by the resistor and the fan circulates air to cool the resistor if it begins to fail and the resistance goes up then the fan slows and the cooling is reduced so the resistor fails even more. and on we go.

 

Not at home at present so cant even access the TIS to get pictures maybe a friendly MOD will do something for you.