birdmanmt

Alrighty, i'm wondering if anyone here has bypassed theirs to a switch to be able to turn their fan on at will, rather than with the climate control. or if anyone know's how. my bentley is out at the shop, so i don't know which terminal on the pack is which, and mine's dead. doesn't turn the fan on on bi-level or defrost anymore. I got a spare from adam, but it ruined itself trying to get the heavily corroded nuts off.

I've got some ice racing to do on sunday, and am thinking with the studs i'll be running, i might wanna have some fan control!

thanks!
Jeff

atunicus

i think i have a good one in one of my parts cars.

birdmanmt

and they may be good, but can you get the nuts off without destroying the piece? the one adam sent me WAS good, until it was time to get the wires/nuts off.....grumble grumble...

atunicus

Im pretty sure i could take one apart without breaking it.

i just got a passat tdi, not sure how well that would handle out there, im parking the 5k in project mode till futher notice. id like to show up to see how your car does tho.

RussB

In a pinch, you could run a wire from +12v to a SPST normally open panel switch. Connect the other terminal of this switch to the hot coil terminal of the fan speed 3 relay.

Notice that the hot terminal of the fan motor has two large wires to one terminal: one wire is from the resistor pack; the other is from fan speed 3's relay contacts.

It's a kludge, and I wouldn't do it (unless desperate).

birdmanmt

ok figured out how to bypass it, switch installed...<yipee>.