Adrian wrote:
> Terry Pinnell (Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>)
gurgled
> happily, sounding much like they were saying:
>
>> The electronics all seems OK in the heater control unit of my E36
series
>> 1996 BMW 328 SE, and the fan works OK, but I'm getting no heat at all.
>> What is the most likely cause please?
>
> No experience on this with BMWs, but it's bringing back vivid memories
of
> the XM... Thermostatic climate control in it?
>
> My money's on the hot/cold flap motor not doing so, either because the
> motor's sulking or because the ECU's sulking. Either way, you're going
to
> need to try to read fault codes from it... The only alternative is
> swapping bits out, which is probably going to have you spending a lot of
> time in the footwell playing gynaecologist with the dashboard.
In fact, it might not even play if you do swap bits *without*
reading/clearing the codes.
I'll bet Adrian's right though. The flap motors in VAG cars stick
sometimes and do this. You can sometimes reset them with diag software.
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