Thread: Replaced Blower Motor Resister, Still no 1-4 setting, What's Next?

So I've done a ton of reading/research about people having problems with not having the 1-4 blower settings on their ac/heater, and was pretty confident that replacing my blower resister would do the trick. Well I finally got to it today as it wasn't THAT cold out.


Started the car up and still NOTHING!, 1-4 still does not work. Now, there is, and has been, an audible "click" sound coming from the steering wheel colum when I go to turn the ac/heater on.

Now I read other info/threads about replacing something in the steering wheel coloum, but at the moment I'm too pissed off and tired to find that $hit on the net.

Someone please tell me my next step (images, links, ANYTHING, would be greatly appreciated), I'm gettng tired of flipping between 0 and full blast on the heater.

I recall reading up somewhere that a bad ignition switch can cause the blower settings to only work on 5. I'm not 100% positive but I swear I remember reading that on here somewhere.


Usually it is just the blower motor resistor. I had to replace mine because speed setting 1 didnt work. Replaced it and it was fixed.

Read this : Sparky's Answers: 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix Blower Inoperative, Erratic



Might help, faulty ignition switch can make your blower settings act up.

Riiight,, the Ignition switch was the next thing to do (pretty sure that's it bc I can hear the click sound in the steering coloum) was affraid it would come to this though, this is the expensive part that I didnt want to have to buy, or do the instal

Originally Posted by Pure2sin

It's either the ignition switch or the blower motor itself. The same thing happened to me. I replaced the resistor only to find out the motor was the issue.

But I have setting 5 (full blast), if it was the motor, wouldn't I have nothing? (just wondering)

i have the same problem.. i dont wanna fix just one until i know for sure what the problem is

Ignition switch brah. Changed mine when i was 15. Only took like a hour and i didnt know wtf i was doing. I bought a used harness. Also ripped out that ******* key solinoid while i was in there. Im 19 now and im sure i could do it in 30 mins tops.