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I ordered the part from the Polish seller on a speculative basis, thinking (hoping) the problem must’ve been the resistor, without having removed it to be certain. It took over a week to get to me so I could not afford to wait. However, since getting it out I have checked the numbers stamped and moulded onto the resistor I took off against the ones on the eBay listing and there’s no match. I don’t know whether I’m check8ng the right numbers but hopefully the new one is compatible. Also, what you mention about it looking like it’s had water into it has given me more food for thought so I’ll mention that and attempt to power up the motor directly as previously suggested. 

I’ll update further when I have more f8nd8ngs.

Cheers

After a lot of faffing getting the red and black spades connected to the motor and new isolator screwed in, and reconnecting the plugs, still no blowers.

Because the switch moves side to side so easily with no resistance I figured the issue might be wholly switch related. I tool the dash apart, removed the fascia panel for the switches expecting a connector to be accessible behind the blower slide switch but there’s nothing. Just one wire visible on the right side. I unscrewed it from the dash (with two torx bolts, one either side) but couldn’t pull that unit/panel through the aperture in dash. Just wouldn’t come out. Must have to take the whole lower dash panel out to get at that which I’m not arsed about. This part:

So I undid the tiny torx bolts to take the front of this fascia off and clean up the contacts and sliders behind. At this point I hoped that the brass/copper piece that sits on top of the slider witch lever and makes contact with the slider was not in proper contact. I removed that and raised the curved sections, cleaned everything again, reassembled it all but still no blowers!

What could be going on here? I really need to get the blowers fixed it’s bloody freezing in there and doing my head in now.

Hope for some fresh ideas and suggestions from you.

Cheers

Thread bump - and help needed...

Bought my 2006 Expert a couple weeks ago - no blowers. Found this great forum from searching for a solution. Checked the two fuses which were fine, so presumed it’s the isolator which arrived yesterday from Poland (ebay)

Following the instructions herein, got the blower motor out, but cannot separate the fan housing to get to the isolator.

Have I got a different unit than ‘standard’? Can I separate the isolator from it to swap with the new or am I going to need to whole unit?

TIA

Thanks for that greatly informative reply!!

Indeed!