HELP! Somethings Burning!

[metz]

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?

[madmatt]

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

[86C]

Sent you a PM...

[metz]

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

[Tahrey1043]

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!

[metz]

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

[GroovyCarrot]

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 )

[metz]

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

[GroovyCarrot]

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