My car started doing this on saturday night after about a 150 mile drive! I wondered what the hell it was as it only came on when i put my foot down between 25 and 50.

Guide please!

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No but you'll freeze I've got a spare one in the garage that the drain pipe snapped off of so I might rip that to bts later and investigate as iirc that was even noiser than the one in the car.

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When I've got time I forget what I wanted to do, and when I remember what I wanted to do, I have no time!

Me being a lazy bas**rd just turned 'em on full and blew some WD40 down the inlet, that sorted it.

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must be a 1.4 thing

I ended up buying one from an 01 reg car for 30 quid.

Havent swapped it over yet so dont want to pull the working one apart but a couple of things ive noticed:

The bit that spins is HUGE (about 6 inch diameter and is about 3 inches high)

Because of its size theres actually a couple of weights attached to the fan blades on there to balance it (like you do wheels) - I would wager that some peoples have fallen off

Its not particulartly loose and free spinning now.

I'll get mine swapped before dissecting it

Ive swapped mine over and had a go at dismantling my old one.

Its basically a big motor with a fan on it, and as with other motors ive seen, its all kinda crimped together. I suppose you can go further and bend the crimps out of the way to get to the bearings but the last motor I pulled apart didnt have bearings in anyway.

I just sprayed WD40 where it spins until it stopped dripping black

Anyway - heres some pics so you know what it looks like

So: undo the 4x T20 screws holding this in the dash and gently pull it out. You will need a T20 with a thin shaft as the last screw is in a difficult to access area; you may need to gently ease the glovebox forward to see what you are doing. Unclip the brown connector

Ignore the fact my drain plug has snapped off - just undo this single screw in the base. This picture might also be useful for locating the 4 screws that hold it in the car

The fan and motor then lift out of the base. Note the trapped foliage Clean this out, might be worth cleaning the fan blades off too

WD40 goes here

And here

Not really sure if that counts as a FAQ

I took my heater blower out on Christmas Eve as I was sick of the infamous squeaking.

I lubricated both bearings with engine oil. The one at the bottom of the motor and the one that sits under the fan. I gave the motor a good blasting with WD40 as it was quite grubby and cleaned the dead foliage out of the fan. I let the oil soak in to the bearings for a few minutes and put it back in the car. Tested it and the squeak is gone

Three days later and the squeak has still not returned

The only down side is that I now have the waft of Total Quartz 7000 10w-40 semi-synthetic blowing through the cabin every time I get in the car

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