Bill, good find. Its to bad you couldn't fix the return spring anchor. That's probably why they changed the blower housing on mine. Also it mite explain why some of the people on the forum are complaining about a wind buffering noise in the cab with the windows down at HWY speeds. Mine doesn't do this at all.And one last thing, when i worked for a dealership a few years ago, we use to get approval or what we called policy warranty items that were a known failed part after the warranty was lapsed. With in a short time of the end of the warranty. It my be worth a try to see if they will do a policy repair for you, that is if you have a decent dealership that you trust, also i would email Chrysler and complain about the issue if the dealership blows you off about this problem. Surly we are not the only ones that have had this failures with are xfires.

Good luck with this, Pat.