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  • 16-02-2011 8:24pm
    #1
    miaowsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭


    I'd appreciate any help on this.

    The ventilation on my Fiat Grande Punto has packed in, it was working perfectly fine this morning but now is blowing nothing. I thought it was just taking time for the engine to heat up but there's no cold air or anything coming out. There's no sound from the fans and the demisters aren't working. :(


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  • #2
    andyseadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,412 ✭✭✭andyseadog


    did you check the fuses?


  • #3
    miaowsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭miaowsky


    Sorry to be such a girl, but I have no clue how to do that. Should I just ring the garage?


  • #4
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    OK - try turning it all the way up to highest speed, that works sometimes on mechanical switches. Sometimes highest speed will work when all the others won't.
    If that doesn't work, then fuses are next thing to check.
    There will be a panel to pull off somewhere, with a little map of what fuse is what. There will also be some spare fuses, find the heater fuse and pull it out.

    If you can see a break in the metal inside it, or it looks burnt, then it's blown.

    The heater fuse will be a certain colour and will have 10A or 15A or 20A written on it. See if one of the spares matches this, if it does pop the spare in where you took the blown one out of.
    It it works happy days, if it blows again take it to a professional


  • #5
    miaowsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭miaowsky


    OK after much trial and error and asking male housemates...we found the fuse boxes, and they all seem to look fine and don't appear to blown.

    I've fiddled around and tried different heat/cold settings and there's nothing coming out of those vents.


  • #6
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    miaowsky wrote: »
    OK after much trial and error and asking male housemates...we found the fuse boxes, and they all seem to look fine and don't appear to blown.

    I've fiddled around and tried different heat/cold settings and there's nothing coming out of those vents.

    OK, when is the last time it was serviced? Does the engine temp gauge on the dash rise to the middle?


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    miaowsky wrote: »
    it was working perfectly fine this morning but now is blowing nothing.

    Was it working on all fan settings? As in low, not so low, high and highest (1,2,3 & 4 more or less). If so it's unlikely to be the resistor pack as that would generally knock out one or two settings at a time. Your actual fan may be dead, happens from time to time.


  • #8
    miaowsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭miaowsky


    Confab wrote: »
    OK, when is the last time it was serviced? Does the engine temp gauge on the dash rise to the middle?

    It was serviced prior to me buying it, during the summer time. Yup everything else is working fine, bar the damn ventilation.
    RoverJames wrote: »
    Was it working on all fan settings? As in low, not so low, high and highest (1,2,3 & 4 more or less). If so it's unlikely to be the resistor pack as that would generally knock out one or two settings at a time. Your actual fan may be dead, happens from time to time.

    Nope, it's dead on all of them.


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    miaowsky wrote: »



    Nope, it's dead on all of them.

    I mean before this morning was it working on all settings, I could gather from your post it's now dead on all of them.


  • #10
    miaowsky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭miaowsky


    RoverJames wrote: »
    I mean before this morning was it working on all settings, I could gather from your post it's now dead on all of them.

    Oh sorry, yeah it was pretty icy this morning so was on high, then back to medium.


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