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Hiya guys,

For the past day i could smell burning coming from the heater vents when the heater is on (either cold or warm) had a look and couldnt find a thing.
Anyway i switched it on today to show my grandad and the smell was there again, switched it off smell gone....went to switch it back on and it doesn't work anymore.

I popped the bonnet and removed the plastic cover from the scuttle area only to find a brown wire that plugs into the heater motor had melted through the white plastic plug...Upon smelling i noticed this is what had been making the smell.

Anyway...Does anyone know what it is(burned out motor? or just earth fault?) or how to fix it? Will i be ok to drive the car about if i don't switch the heater on?

i will have a look for you on sunday get here before pettsy cos i carnt do 2 things at the same time

Sent you a PM...

Cheers matt, I've unpluged it now just incase it causes more damages

mebbe one of the resistors went bad or something... related to the problem sometimes seen on dubs where the motor only works at number 3 (no resistance) speed...

or a leaf got in and stalled the motor, making it burn out..

hmm!

would the earth wire melt if that happened then?
i thought the bloody engine was on fire

Reminds me of the situation when I mis-wired my headlamp switch. Brown earth wire melted everything in reach, cabin filled with thick smoke.

Not that that's relevant, nor do I have a solution to your problem other than something shorting onto the earth wire (fan motor shorting out? Running a live cable straight into one of the brown earth cables has drastic effects )

Lol i'll remember that for when i wire my spots up mate

Even with my bad past experience with headlamp wiring, my next project (after I get the engine running again ) is a pair of foglamps that I just found in the loft