>Hello,

>   I’ve got a Golf Country ’92 and the indoor fan just recently stopped
>working. The Country is basically the series II Golf. Where is the
>fan located? I heard someone say that you have to change the coal in
>the DC motor. Terrible driving in rain without the fan – windshield
>dews up quick. Any help would be appreciated.

You’ve a Country? Great car, shame it wasn’t more widely available.

OK, the fan problem – fairly common in A2s in the UK, usually with the
same cause. You need to check the fan resistor pack thermal fuse. This
is a fuse within the pack and is designed to prevent the large ‘shunt’
resistor from overheating by blowing at 152 degrees C.

Once the fuse has blown a new resistor pack is required – and they’re
expensive (around 40 UK pounds) when just one small component has
failed.

A cheaper solution is to visit your local electronics store, resistor
pack in hand and buy a thermal fuse, same make, same rating as the one
in the resistor pack. Solderig in the fuse takes a couple of minutes.

To get to the fan motor – this is on a right hand drive UK car which has
the motor mounted on the passenger side up above the parcel shelf, not
sure where it’s located on a LHD car – take out the five screws holding
the shelf, remove shelf and foam insulation.

Unclip the electrical connector from the fan motor.

Release the retaining tab at the back of the motor and twist the motor
clockwise to remove.

Remove the resistor pack from the motor by lifting the tab and removing
the brown (left) and red (right) internal wires.

Remove the thermal fuse by cutting it from the resistor pack (left) and
terminal (right).

Solder the new fuse in place. The red end of the fuse attaches to the
terminal.

BE WARNED: when soldering the new fuse in place, use long nose pliers to
hold the wires on the fuse so that heat is dissipated up the pliers and
not into the fuse – otherwise it’ll blow and you’ll be back to square
one!

Cut off excess wire, replace resistor pack into the fan, replace fan
into car, enjoy three speed fan.

Don’t replace the thermal fuse with one of a higher value, this could
cause the resistor pack to heat up too much and catch alight.

Sorry this has been a long reply but I posted it in case it might help
others.
—
David Pipes
Founder CLUB GTI 1987
Features writer, Volkswagen Audi Car magazine – motorsport, tuning etc
da…@plusone.demon.co.uk

<ti…@vipunen.hut.fi> writes:

>Hello,

>   I’ve got a Golf Country ’92 and the indoor fan just recently
stopped
>working. The Country is basically the series II Golf. Where is the
>fan located? I heard someone say that you have to change the coal in
>the DC motor. Terrible driving in rain without the fan – windshield
>dews up quick. Any help would be appreciated.

If it is anything like the US golf’s then check behind the glove
compartment or glove box, the fresh air motor is there.  On mine, there
is a rrsistor pack that has a temerature sensitive diode that is known
to fail if the pack gets too hot.  Install a new diode (1.00 dollar us)
and it should be ok.  That is if it is the diode.

-Dan C.