Blower motor dead.

[Han solo]

Update,
Blower started working again briefly yesterday, but the speed was all over the place, so although I think the motor is on the way out, I'm starting to agree with the resistor diagnosis, picking one up from the breakers on monday, fingers crossed as it looks like a much easier job than the motor.
Typical it died again on the hottest day so far.

[taxi driver]

Remove the glove box, 3 hour job...... I'd ask if anyone has actually attempted the job? I have on a 2009 V70. I purchased the tool (Some where) I attempted the job and realised its impossible with out removing the dashboard. All the you tube videos that I could find were on a left hand drive. On a right hand drive you will be lucky to touch it! I had the job done by Avalon Cars Wellingborough (Volvo trained mechanics) it cost me approx. £1300 from memory inc parts.

[Han solo]

Changed the resistor, no joy.
Just waiting for a call back with a quote to change the motor

Pray for me

[Han solo]

They just got back to me...
£375 non Volvo fan
£680 Volvo fan, all in
It's booked in for Monday

So hopefully I can just sit in the car on the drive Monday night wit the a/c on full.

[taxi driver]

Originally Posted by Han solo

They just got back to me...
£375 non Volvo fan
£680 Volvo fan, all in
It's booked in for Monday

So hopefully I can just sit in the car on the drive Monday night wit the a/c on full.

Well done that man. Better luck than me. What model is it?

[Han solo]

Originally Posted by taxi driver

Well done that man. Better luck than me. What model is it?

Yeah, I'll take that, I expected at least double.
It's a 2012 V70
I'm guessing your northants direction from your post, there are two Volvo specialists near me that aren't a million miles from you, the one I got the quote from is bpc in chesham and the other one is quintech in bovinhdon, who I haven't had a quote from yet but I've heard good stuff about him.

[nickbw898]

This is perfectly possible to do yourself, just a bit of hard work and making sure to follow the guide.

[Han solo]

Well that didn't go to plan!
Dropped car off at 9am, got a phone call at 4pm saying they trouble getting the fan, then they came out with "it's an ex police car so all the wires are soldered!" "It'll take two days" and it'll be at least £600 plus parts.
Needed the car for work the next day so just went and collected it.
Anyway, I thought sod it I'll do it myself,
Armed myself with the special tool £70 bought an endoscope from Screwfix £70 blower motor £49
Passenger seat/carpet out
CEM out
Recirc unit removed
Speedo out
Then I found the release clip with the endoscope through the Speedo hole and slid a 1 metre aluminium ruler down to the clip and prised it apart while my helper disengaged the blower motor from the passenger side, all in all about 5 hours, and a lot easier than removing the dash, steering wheel etc
Soldered wires my @£$€

[Kev0607]

Originally Posted by Han solo

Well that didn't go to plan!
Dropped car off at 9am, got a phone call at 4pm saying they trouble getting the fan, then they came out with "it's an ex police car so all the wires are soldered!" "It'll take two days" and it'll be at least £600 plus parts.
Needed the car for work the next day so just went and collected it.
Anyway, I thought sod it I'll do it myself,
Armed myself with the special tool £70 bought an endoscope from Screwfix £70 blower motor £49
Passenger seat/carpet out
CEM out
Recirc unit removed
Speedo out
Then I found the release clip with the endoscope through the Speedo hole and slid a 1 metre aluminium ruler down to the clip and prised it apart while my helper disengaged the blower motor from the passenger side, all in all about 5 hours, and a lot easier than removing the dash, steering wheel etc
Soldered wires my @£$€

That’s the only problem with many garages… you never really know whether they’ve actually looked at an issue properly before throwing the towel in.

This was probably one of those jobs that they took on, but something much easier come in like a big service or something & they went down the easy path doing that instead.

So basically, you were fobbed off.

[Han solo]

Originally Posted by Kev0607

That’s the only problem with many garages… you never really know whether they’ve actually looked at an issue properly before throwing the towel in.

This was probably one of those jobs that they took on, but something much easier come in like a big service or something & they went down the easy path doing that instead.

So basically, you were fobbed off.

100% fobbed off, just couldn't believe the list of bs excuses he gave me.
Ah well I get the car serviced every six weeks or so, so I guess it's his loss.
Anyway, we have a new issue...
I unplugged a box behind the dash thinking it was excess police junk, turns out it's something to do with the ignition but I'll start a new topic on that one.