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Old Sep 20, 2015 | 07:12 PM
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Okay i sent my car into the shop with my friend because the AC wasnt blowing out cold air. We checked the fuse box and found something like this


some previous mechanic did this to the fuses and idk why. Also the magnet on the clutch in my compressor broke off (white thing in the picture below)


if you guys may have a solution to this headache i would greatly appreciate it
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Old Sep 21, 2015 | 11:19 AM
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What year is your car. I will look at the schematics and try and figure what the hell they did that for. Without that I can't determine if they connected on power in or power out of the following and why they connected to both on the center fuse.

Quick look at the OM says:

The fuse #4 on the left is for the Driver side door module

Fuse #18 in the center is for HVAC control

Circuit Breaker #36 on the right is for the Driver seat and protects the circuits for the motors.

Obviously, we don't want to leave it that way.


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Old Sep 21, 2015 | 12:21 PM
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Thank you, my car is a 2000. Heres an actual pic of what they did.

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Got most of what I need except I need to know if you have Manual or Dual/Automatic control HVAC.


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Old Sep 22, 2015 | 11:37 AM
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I have dual zone AC
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OK, I have all the info on your situation. You have driver seat motor power and driver seat control module power tied into the HVAC power to the "head unit" in the dash console.

I would suggest you put the driver seat in a position you like and remove that wiring.

Then let's see what the situation is for seat and HVAC control. To leave things this way is NOT a good idea.

The only reason I could even think would cause that wiring to be done was some sort of potential internal fuse box issue that affected power feeds.


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Old Oct 13, 2015 | 05:26 PM
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OK, I have all the info on your situation. You have driver seat motor power and driver seat control module power tied into the HVAC power to the "head unit" in the dash console.

I would suggest you put the driver seat in a position you like and remove that wiring.

Then let's see what the situation is for seat and HVAC control. To leave things this way is NOT a good idea.

The only reason I could even think would cause that wiring to be done was some sort of potential internal fuse box issue that affected power feeds.


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Okay well i did that and the AC controls turned on, but i lost seat motion and my telescopic steering. So I rechecked the fuses, which were functioning when the wires were connected, and the left driver control fuse was blown. I switched the fuse with one of my spares and all my systems were working fine. Ive had it this way for a couple of days to make sure that was it. Im happy to say that i think its fixed.

I still dont know why they would do that.
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Excellent. Thanks for the update.
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