2012 LR4, around 96,000 miles.
Was driving yesterday with the A/C on full blast when the blower suddenly cut out. All the dash knobs and whatnot still work and light up normal, just no cold air blowing. It's never made any odd sounds like a bearing going out; this is the first issue it's had.
When it quit, it didn't sound like it seized up. It just stopped blowing as if I turned it off.
My first thought was a fuse. Looking through the owner's manual, though, and I don't see a fuse for the front blower. I see one for the rear blower (and there's a relay for the rear blower in the relay bank in the fusebox next to the battery), but nothing for the front. The closest I see is a fuse for the climate control ECU, but it's only a 10a fuse, so I doubt that's it.
This doesn't seem to be a common issue on the LR4. Searches turn up similar problems on the LR3. There, it's often the relay, which I guess is right near the blower motor. But I don't see a relay on my LR4, so not sure if they made a slight design change.
Other common problems are the blower motor itself. However, I pulled my blower motor and hooked it up directly to 12v power and it turned on fine (not sure how fast it regularly spins as I've never had it out before, but it kicked on pretty good).
Another possibility is the blower motor resistor. I pulled mine and it doesn't look abnormal (someone who had theirs go bad on their LR3 posted a photo and you could tell it burned up by looking at it). Nonetheless, I just ordered one off Amazon that can get here tomorrow so I can see if that's the culprit.
Has anyone else ever had this come up?
I found this thread (https://www.landroverworld.org/threads/105k-miles-new-issue.29628/#post-179097), but his was the blower motor. Like I said, I hooked mine up directly to 12v and it kicked on just fine. Is it possible that it can still be 'bad' even if it kicks on when hooked up directly?
Is there a fuse for the front blower? Is there a relay that I'm just not seeing?
thanks.
Was driving yesterday with the A/C on full blast when the blower suddenly cut out. All the dash knobs and whatnot still work and light up normal, just no cold air blowing. It's never made any odd sounds like a bearing going out; this is the first issue it's had.
When it quit, it didn't sound like it seized up. It just stopped blowing as if I turned it off.
My first thought was a fuse. Looking through the owner's manual, though, and I don't see a fuse for the front blower. I see one for the rear blower (and there's a relay for the rear blower in the relay bank in the fusebox next to the battery), but nothing for the front. The closest I see is a fuse for the climate control ECU, but it's only a 10a fuse, so I doubt that's it.
This doesn't seem to be a common issue on the LR4. Searches turn up similar problems on the LR3. There, it's often the relay, which I guess is right near the blower motor. But I don't see a relay on my LR4, so not sure if they made a slight design change.
Other common problems are the blower motor itself. However, I pulled my blower motor and hooked it up directly to 12v power and it turned on fine (not sure how fast it regularly spins as I've never had it out before, but it kicked on pretty good).
Another possibility is the blower motor resistor. I pulled mine and it doesn't look abnormal (someone who had theirs go bad on their LR3 posted a photo and you could tell it burned up by looking at it). Nonetheless, I just ordered one off Amazon that can get here tomorrow so I can see if that's the culprit.
Has anyone else ever had this come up?
I found this thread (https://www.landroverworld.org/threads/105k-miles-new-issue.29628/#post-179097), but his was the blower motor. Like I said, I hooked mine up directly to 12v and it kicked on just fine. Is it possible that it can still be 'bad' even if it kicks on when hooked up directly?
Is there a fuse for the front blower? Is there a relay that I'm just not seeing?
thanks.