Ticking Noise When Set Climate Set To Foot Only!

[West]

By now we should have plenty of 32GTR's owner in Australia, just want to see if anyone having the same problem.

My climate control, every other setting is fine except for when i set it to FOOT only, it'll make this ticking noise, sounds like a fan blade get stuck somewhere and it keep trying to turn to the position so it kept going toc toc toc...

Anyone knows whats' the cause?

Thanks

[heartbrkr]

Does it eventually settle down? My R33 makes a similar noise, but goes away after a few seconds.

The S14 manual had diagnositc instructions which told me lower lever am. Dunno if 32 are similar climate control.

Still, thought of taking dash apart to look has put me off investigating.

[blur]

my 32 r does it as well, i belive its the vent door motor but havent had a chance to check it out!! is the vent motor really loud in its operation as well?

[ferni]

Common prob on R33's not sure about R32s.

Its an actuator/motor on top of the heater box. Little black box. You can get them from nissan for around $150-160. Involves taking whole dash out.

[pavel]

what if you disconnect/remove the actuator/motor ? would that fix the noise and would it affect climante control operation in any way?

[ferni]

It opens/closes a vent that goes to/from face i think. So if you removed it it would probably get stuck on face or not on face.... can't remember exactly. Its only $150 for a new one to fix it, don't know why you wouldn't replace it if you were going to pull the dash out

[pavel]

i think i read somewhere that if you d/c it you'll only loose the vent that goes to passenger feet and everything else would work fine, just wanted to know how true it was...

[West]

Thanks for the input guys! Removing the dash doesn't sound easy.

[jezzerrr]

my face vents still turn on and off and i have the click. I would imagine that it clicks because something is jammed, so if it was disconnected i cant imagine it making any difference to the current function of the system. I haven't actually been able to find what it actually actuates! might try and nut it out on FAST later... if i knew how to get to it I would have disconnected it ages ago.... and at least if you disconnect it, you can find out exactly what it affects before you decide to pull the dash out....

Edited October 5, 2005 by jezzerrr

[ferni]

You've got to pull the dash out to disconnect it. I'm pretty sure it was the vent that goes to the center face that it opens/closes. I can't remember if it still opens/closes even when it clicks, i didn't take much notice in what didn't work i just couldn't stand the clicking and wanted to fix it so i put the new part in it.

http://gtr.ferni.net/misc/dash_removal/heater_unit02.jpg

its the black box on top of the heaterbox in that photo. you can see the arm that moves coming out from under neath to the right.

[gtst4d]

I have had the same problem with the tocing noise but it was stopping when i turned up the temp on the climate control, but i think it has broken altogether now because it dosent mater how much i turn the temp down the air comming out is still hot. Has anybody had this problem before and could this solanoid be my problem, any help would be great

[The Dan]

maybe there is a leaf stuck inside. Have fixed this problem on many cars.

[pavel]

http://www.teamloose.com/pavel/r33_dash.avi

thats what was making noise in my R33, just unpluged it and no more headache