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Old 02-12-2003, 10:59 PM   #1
pampereddarlene
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Unhappy Help no heat-Plymouth Voyager

I am in need of help. I bought a 1996 Plymouth Voyager in 5-2000. When I bought it the fan blower only worked in a few of the settings. I explained it to the dealer and they looked at the car. They couldn't fix it because they had to order the part. The invoice said "fan motor in INOP on 1st and 4th speeds. Fan switch faulty, ordered Fan Switch" I was supposed to bring it in when the part came in and I never did. Boy do I regret that now. Two years later the fan blower was only working in the highest setting. Again I thought I could bring it to the dealer and they could quickly fix it with the part they had on hand. (ha ha ha) In December I shut off the van and noticed that the blower was still running with the car off. I thought that was wierd and within a week the blower stopped working totally. By the way winter is COLD in Maine. I called the dealer and they basically laughed in my face. They said the best they could do is to give us a used part for $200(two years later the brand new part is almost $400 versus the $238 in 2000) Well I didn't have the money so I waited and drove around cold. We decided to call a junk yard and they gave us a part(heater/Ac Control Switch) for $120. We put it in and still no heat. I called a mechanic friend that works at the dealership and he suggested to try the blower resistor. He said usually with a blower resistor your heat would only work on the highest postion for a little bit before not working at all. We said that was the case so we called a motor supply store and found out that the resistor is a dealer only part. So we called the junk yard again and asked for the resistor. When they checked to make sure our parts were compatible the man noticed that my wires in the plug had fried. He explained to me how to splice the wires and hook up the new"used" one. I had a electrician friend do it but it still didn't work. We even tried the new resistor with the new AC Control Switch still nothing. Checked by eye the fuses that have anything to do with heat. Appears fine. I am at my wits end with keeping the kids home because of a freezing car. My husband will try anything. Need to keep it inexpensive if possible. I hope someone can help. Thanks:help:
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