Hi,

My cabin fan just started sounding like a chopper. Did stand under a tree and noticed a lot of debris / leaves and **** on the car. Best bet is to clean the cabin air filter and check the fan blower motor or am I wrong?

I did search but no real solution.

Any comments on prob would be most appreciated.

regards,

FUBu

 

Phil,
You are on the right path.... most noisey cabin fans are from leaves and crud falling down in there... Remeber that there is an access for the fan and one for the filter... it is a good idea to put something on the floor to catch the crap that fall out when you open either.. (yes, I ended up with crap on the carpeting)

 

So this is what I did.
How to kill the chopper.

1. lay yourself down on your back in passenger foot area
2. unscrew 2 screws at the back easy to locate (not to the compartment box)
3. take off plastic cover (carefully bend it open)
4. BEWARE of dirt falling out. take out cabin filter and clean it with a vacuum cleaner (see it on pic. two white plastic pieces to be pulled apart on each side. then just pull the filter out)
5. unplug the blower motor fan contact.
6. BEWARE of dirt falling out. take away the cover with pulling the closing mechanism and pulling it away.
7. unscrew 4 torx and look for leaves and such. See picture.
8. re-install everything after having checked that all leaves are gone.
Voila! No chopper sound!

I have seen other guides but not regarding cleaning the blower motor fan. So hope it helped.

P.s. The leaf is just to illustrate and was not present IRL

 

same issue. had a playing card in there. this fix worked.

 

Excellent fix FuBu! Good job on the pictures too!

 

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this is the card i found in the fan

Photo by zig129zagg • Instagram

 

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