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Re: Possible to drive an hour without rad fan?
Posted by Erik919kt (# 1104) (more from Erik919kt) on Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:51:52
In Reply to: Possible to drive an hour without rad fan?, danah, Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:09:44
I agree with Bill. Highway driving gives you good air flow. When you stop, however, or any driving below 35 mph, it heats up. I have had this same problem, and I coped with it by turning the ACC temperature setting to HI, fan on high, all windows and sunroof open. I also would turn off my engine at red lights and try to do a lot of coasting in gear. However, coasting at less than 35 mph seems to really not provide much cooling, and I would not see the temp decreasing when I did this. Probably the biggest help in town was to use the heater core as my radiator.

I replaced my fan and fan resistor with a new unit from eeuro, but I would think a salvage part would be fine, as this is an uncommon failure and the part should still be functional. I confirmed my fan was bad by hooking it directly to battery power.

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