Rear top fans not blowing

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Ollymuk
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Rear top fans not blowing

Post by Ollymuk » Sat Jul 11, 2020 5:57 pm

Hi all

We have a 97 bongo with the electronic air con.

We've set the rear fans to blow (hold down the Rear button and then set the air direction to the top and increase fan power) but nothing comes out of the rear air vents. If you listen carefully, I'm sure that it's possible to hear some kind of servo power up behind the offside panel behind the drivers seat, where the vertical air ducting is that feeds the top vents. But no actual air flow.

Is there some way I can diagnose this? Are those fans powered by a fuse that I can check, or are there some cables I can do some volt tests on?

Any advice welcome.

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Re: Rear top fans not blowing

Post by g8dhe » Sat Jul 11, 2020 7:46 pm

All the fuses are detailed here http://www.g8dhe.net/bwm
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Re: Rear top fans not blowing

Post by Donnie » Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:21 pm

I know it's unlikely, but I had the same issue and mine was the fact that the blower end of the system, ie the fan bit, had been removed by a previous owner!
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Re: Rear top fans not blowing

Post by Ollymuk » Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:42 pm

Thanks all

The issue was actually that the fuse was missing from the x02 box in the engine. Just an empty gap.

Put a fuse in, and voila. We have air con and rear fans.
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