There are two recirculation flap motors,
One in the engine bay which is easy'ish to replace.
The other one is located inside the cabin, which requires the whole dash to be removed in order to replace it.
Luckily V113 is the one in the engine bay, mine is also stuck and non operational. You need to check which position its stuck in, if its stuck closed then the car will never get fresh air into the cabin.
To check, open bonnet and remove the cover from the pollen filter (centre of plenum). You should see two flaps, if they are closed when the engine is running and HVAC turned on, then they are stuck closed because they should be open. Mine are always open regardless of HVAC mode, so mine are stuck open.
Stuck open is less of an issue because you'll get fresh air into the cabin. Stuck closed is a major problem because the stale air will build up in the cabin, a bit like having recirc mode on all the time. Mine has been stuck open for 15 months, never caused a problem yet.
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Manny
2004 A4 1.8T Sport Cabriolet, 89K Miles
Past
2004 D3 A8 3.7 Quattro, Xenon, Bose, Blinds, Solar Sunroof, TV, ACC, phone and almost every option. 168K miles rising slowly
with retrofit AMI and DVB-T in place of Analogue
2003 Volvo S60 D5 SE Manual, 197K miles.
2001 D2 A8 3.7 QS, Bi-Xenon, Bose, Blinds, Electric Everything, retrofitted RNS-D, 191K Miles
Last edited by mannyo; 1st March 2015 at 09:05 PM.
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