sorry if this has been asked already, my dads 3rd gen's heater hasnt been working for a while now, is this a known problem with the 3rd gens? is there a fix to it?

i tried searching the faq links but i couldnt find anything.

Thanks in advance.

 

what is it doing? blowing cold air? no blowing at all? not turning on?

 

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

Do the legwork. Few pages towards the freeze of the winter, it was topic no.1.

For some reason faqs & stickies do not really stick on these down to earth matters...

 

its blowing cold air, even when the car warms up fully it never blows anything but cold air

 

just a check, but did you make sure the little lever all the way on the left is closed? If not, it will suck in outside air and be cold...I'm sure you've already checked that but just in case

 

yeah, tried every setting possible

 

I made that mistake

you may also want to try changing out your thermostat. last thought is heater core Thermostat should be your next step, imo. Is your water temp gauge going up to a normal level?

 

you've gotta gotta bleed baby, gotta bleed for it baby

 

thermostat was changed, heater still doesnt work

anything else besides replacing heater core?

 

Yes.

Do the legwork. Few pages towards the freeze of the winter, it was topic no.1.

Test the heater flow valve under hood. As told on those threads...
- vacuum powered. Vacuum present?
- electronics controlled. Is it? coil ok?
- bypass it. Now heats?

and so on and so on and so on. It pays to check the forum first.

 

did a search for heater....

http://forums.maxima.org/search.php?searchid=205328

hope that helps

 

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aw crap....i thought it would show, but probably not cause you didn't donate.

 

try these. i didn't read through them. i just cut and pasted...

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ghlight=heater
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ghlight=heater
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ghlight=heater
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ghlight=heater
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ghlight=heater
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ghlight=heater
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ghlight=heater
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ghlight=heater
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ghlight=heater

 

thanks, i appreciate all the help, i'll read up on it.

 

I already gave you the most common answer to the problem you are describing.

 

Abs true. Maybe its easier to seek than try such simple deed?