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Old 3rd August 2017, 01:16 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Originally Posted by moltuae View Post
The J126 module appears to control the voltage to the blower (and therefore the speed) by introducing ground resistance. Judging by the size of the heatsink and the simple 3-wire connection, presumably it's little more than a high-power bipolar transistor. If that's where the fault lies, being intermittent in nature, I'd suspect a bad internal or external connection.
Part number 4D0 820 521A. New ones are silly money (hundreds of pounds).
Found one really cheap online in Europe and ordered it, if nothing else I can use it for testing by swapping the plugs over; no need to mount properly at first.
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions, ski hatch retrofit; extended leather. Aftermarket DVB-T, reversing camera and full XCarlink (Bluetooth etc.).
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (A much rarer model than a D2 S8 by the way!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!

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