Radiator fan motor part no. - 110TDI

[GTW]

Hello Folks.

My '99 110TDI is due a cambelt change and I've started to ask around for prices. It needs a new electric motor for one of the rad fans as well, but the first quote is £495, which seemed a bit steep from an independent. This price includes £65 for the belt kit, £29 for a water pump, £125 for the fan motor and 3.5 hours labour.

I thought the fan motor was a lot cheaper, but I've been told it comes as a unit with the housing and is not a separate motor

Can anyone confirm this or advise the part number? Of the fan motors, this is the offside (drivers side) one, which I presume is for the climatronic.

Your thoughts and advice would be very much appreciated.

Gaz

[Lex Luthor]

Check GSF for the parts pricing.
http://www.gsfcarparts.com

[Sam]

Gaz, I may be totally on the wrong track but is it anything to do with this;

[GTW]

Check GSF for the parts pricing.
http://www.gsfcarparts.com

Rather ironically, I've been to GSF twice today and it didn't cross my mind on either occasion. Should point out this quote was for OEM parts.

Such an airhead

Gaz

[GTW]

Cheers Sam

You're on the right lines, but the bigger fan, numbered 06, 07 & 08 in your schematic can be seen on the right in this pic:



But it's the other, smaller fan that's being noisy. Looks like it's held in the housing by three nuts and bolts:



But I doubt there's the room to get it out without much more dismantling

Gaz

[Lex Luthor]

But I doubt there's the room to get it out without much more dismantling

You actually get the whole assembly that is held in with one screw !
Release the cable that runs to the connector beside the PS reservoir, you will have to drop the undertray and grovel underneath; then undo the single screw and rotate the whole assy a few degrees and off it comes.
There was enough room to do this on my 1.8 petrol and from your photo there looks like the same amount of room on yours.

[GTW]

...one screw !

Blimey!!

Cheers Lex

I wonder if I can just replace the one motor once it's off??

Gaz

[Lex Luthor]

I wonder if I can just replace the one motor once it's off??

Sorry, I do not understand what you are trying to achieve ?
The other fan is driven by the engine via a viscous coupling.

[GTW]

Sorry, I do not understand what you are trying to achieve ?
The other fan is driven by the engine via a viscous coupling.

Ahhh....all becomes clear - 'there are none so blind...' springs to mind

Allow me to explain how I've got lost

This fan (the leccy one) gave it's first warning sign a few months ago with the odd tinny squeal at start up. It was relatively easy to identify where the sound was coming from.

As it went downhill, I noticed a few seconds of rumble after switching the engine off. So it got a bit more of my attention and that's when I first noticed play in the shaft. But I've put off dealing with it over the winter coz I don't like playing out in the cold.

Now it's whistling and rumbling in competition with the engine, so has my full attention Viz: at no point have I paid any attention to the other fan whatsoever - to the point of not even noticing where it was mounted even though it's patently obvious in the pic I've posted above !!!

So I've been completely on the wrong tram tracks and had presumed that it was both fans that made up one 'unit' which I'd struggle to get off the car. Idoicy is a skill I've developed to a highly tuned state!

Lex, your explanation of what is patently obvious puts a whole different perspective on it

What am I trying to achieve? Well, even though I'm no stranger to being a spannermonkey, I'm disinclined to do the cambelt myself, not having done a Passat one before. But if I can reduce the bill by doing the fan myself (possibly with a GSF assembly) then I'm going to feel much better with myself about farming the job out to someone else.

Thanks for your help and comments Lex

Gaz

[Sam]

Gaz, oh how you'll owe me.

http://www.passatworld.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=235000

Go nuts!