M42club.com - Home of the BMW E30/E36 318i/iS

DISCUSSION => General Topics => Topic started by: Zoso on March 15, 2006, 03:42:49 PM

Title: New idea: Mod your heater blower motor!
Post by: Zoso on March 15, 2006, 03:42:49 PM

So I'm looking for a used blower motor for my 318i because mine is chirping at me in the first three fan speeds.  Chirping blower motor FTL - for realz.

I saw this on on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/BMW-E30-3-series-Heater-Blower-Motor-New_W0QQitemZ4620465937 (http://cgi.ebay.com/BMW-E30-3-series-Heater-Blower-Motor-New_W0QQitemZ4620465937)
Who actually paints a part that is buried in their dash?  Those crazy Brits...

Title: New idea: Mod your heater blower motor!
Post by: dude8383 on March 15, 2006, 03:53:16 PM

so that blower motor is the cause of a chirping bird type sound when its on? mine only chirps in the first 2 fan speeds..

Title: New idea: Mod your heater blower motor!
Post by: Febi Guibo on March 15, 2006, 03:55:54 PM

does it have an M-Tech logo on it? I'm all over that!

Title: New idea: Mod your heater blower motor!
Post by: Zoso on March 15, 2006, 04:04:56 PM

Quote from: dude8383

so that blower motor is the cause of a chirping bird type sound when its on? mine only chirps in the first 2 fan speeds..

That's my educated guess.  I can't think of anything else that would make a chirping noise that is related to the fan speed.

Writeup to follow.... when I get the time to do this procedure :)


Someone mentioned on another forum that potentially the pink is stock.  I've seen them black and white and shades of gray, but never pink.

Title: New idea: Mod your heater blower motor!
Post by: dude8383 on March 15, 2006, 04:53:03 PM

keep us updated then..i would really hate to change the blower motor, but that chirping is really f'in annoying..

Title: New idea: Mod your heater blower motor!
Post by: Vladi on April 04, 2006, 03:05:35 AM

Mine did the chirping, too. I've replaced it with one that blows my fuse if i run it in 4th fan speed. :( I'm going to have a look into that...

Title: New idea: Mod your heater blower motor!
Post by: 1991318is on April 04, 2006, 03:09:10 AM

Mine chirped and randomly stopped so I bought a new one and it fixed the issue, yes the motor is the cause of the problem. Oh, and don't take off the little staples on a few of the blades, realized after we had it abck together that those were balancers. Never made a difference w/o the balancers, but just leave em on and don't get curious nad take them off like me.

Title: New idea: Mod your heater blower motor!
Post by: asubimmer on April 04, 2006, 08:29:51 AM

I was working on a euro 6 that had a pink one