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Default Root cause insight into the common BMW blower motor resistorfailures

On 03/21/2013 10:07 PM, jim beam wrote:
On 03/21/2013 09:00 AM, Bimmer Owner wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:14:12 -0700, jim beam wrote:

it's cheaper to just buy a new one.


To be clear, that's what 99.99999999% of the BMW owners do.
But that's not the point of this thread.

The point of this thread is to get a handle on WHY they are all
failing.


i already told you - it's overheating. semiconductors don't like heat.


Yeah, we know that.

*why* is it overheating?



Specifically, how to figure that out is the question.


knowing how the light bulb blew doesn't fix it.


But it may make the replacement last longer.

nate

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