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Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Erez — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:51:20 -0000

Thanks for the demonstration and all the tips, I just finished assembling the fan back, I started hearing the fan noise 2 weeks ago and considered buying a new one, I got it out first to be sure it's broken and it turned out that it was jammed with a plastic bag, so I removed it, cleaned the fan from all the dust and lubed the bearings.
It works perfectly and quiet as new.
Many thanks again, you saved me money, 0 cost for this fix (-:

Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Georgios Sfakianakis — Tue, 16 May 2017 07:08:36 -0000

This link is not working anymore. Is there any way to find this guide again ?

Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Tigrou Ind — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:01:21 -0000

Awesome tutorial. If your motor is noisy you don't necessarily need to replace it, here is how I fixed mine :

- Take the blower.
- There is four pieces of rubber at the back, push them with a flat screwdriver while trying to pull the motor out.
- Additionally you need to remove the power connector. There is two small gaps between the connector and the blower (on each side). Put two small (1mm) screwdrivers there. Once they are in place, move the sideways to push on the sides of the connector (to unlock it). At the same time push forward on the connector (eg: with another bigger screwdriver) to pull it out.
- Now you should be able to pull the motor out. Once done clean it (eg: with air compressor) at is it certainly covered with dirt.
- To fix the noise you need to put some oil (eg: WD-40) on the bearings. There is one bearing at the top and one at the bottom of the motor. Do not put oil on the rotor or other parts, only on the bearings.

Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Mihnea Simian — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:41:59 -0000

You are welcome, I'm also very happy i saved you guys some money!

Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Stephan — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:10:35 -0000

Many thanks, your DIY saved me 300 euros! My heating fan was making noise and the VW garage told me it was time to replace it. They asked 400 euros. I bought both the resitor and fan online for around 100 euros. Great

Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Patrik Nyström — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:46:44 -0000

Haha yepp, I didn't remove the blower at all just the tiny thing. Haha yeah, 800 is to much.. glad that i fixed it by my own. Never done something like this with the electricity before.

If you still have the polo 6r, have a look at this,
http://www.aliexpress.com/i...

I mount it couple of months ago. Payed 110 and mount by my own. authorized VW workshop told me 1000 for armrest + mounting.

Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Mihnea Simian — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:39:00 -0000

Oh, it's this little guy, 25-30 usd it is here as well - http://www.epiesa.ro/motor-... - I remember pulling it out by mistake and then struggling to twist it back to its place. For 800 i would expect them to change the whole AC :))

Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Patrik Nyström — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:30:40 -0000

:) In the price they included the heater + price / hour.
He told me i needed to change the blower too, but no. Works fine, just change the resistor, kind a tricky to find it above the blower :)

Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Mihnea Simian — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:27:15 -0000

Thanks for reaching! Wow, 800?? I knew labour was very expensive in Scandinavia.

Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Patrik Nyström — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:59:00 -0000

This guide is awesome! Just changed the fan resistor in an hour, never Done something like this before. Bought the resistor for 30$ instead of the workshop who told me 800$ for the same thing.

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Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Mihnea Simian — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 04:40:59 -0000

Congrats and thanks for the info! You were lucky to find one at the scrap yard!

You did pay 50 Eur total costs (it seems a bit high given you found a used one at the scrap yard) , but i think you also included the T10/T15 which you get to keep ;) Master's bonus.

Re: How to remove hvac interior blower VW Polo 6R

Sat, 18 Oct 2014 07:57:07 -0000

Thanks a lot mate! The blower from the climate control suddenly stopped working in my car overnight. The cooling/warming function still worked, but the air wasnt being pumped around. After finding this guide online, I decided to give it a go and took the blower out by the steps described above. I tested it on an external power supply and since it didnt work, I decided to pick a new one up from the scrap yard (from a VW Fox). Now it works like a charm again!

Differences in my car: there was a little light connector on the bottom of the glovebox, the airbag was a different type that didn't have a switch to turn it off (with this type you can turn the engine on while the dashboard unit is removed without problem), and there was a tire pressure sensor that had to be plugged out. And one tiny side node: the blower is removed with a T10, the dashboard with the T15.

Total costs of DIY repair: € 50,00. So many thanks for posting the detailled steps! It made me confident to successfully fix my own car!

Re: Installing OpenCV

Guess — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:36:01 -0000

I just want to thank you for this tutorial. Thanks a lot!

Re: Installing OpenCV

niya — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:28:27 -0000

hi simian i installed opencv successfully but wen i did this ./cxcoretest it is saying that no such directory present... so instead i tried ./opencv_test_core after that command i got 1 failure which said

1 test from Core_globbing
[ RUN ] Core_globbing.accuracy
/home/internal/geomatics/sivakumar/VT/SR/opencv-2.4.6.1/modules/core/test/test_io.cpp:466: Failure
Expected: (lenas.size()) > (pngLenas.size()), actual: 0 vs 0
[ FAILED ] Core_globbing.accuracy (1 ms)
[----------] 1 test from Core_globbing (1 ms total)

after that i individually tested ./opencv_test_highgui
even after tat i got the following errors [----------] Global test environment tear-down
[==========] 17 tests from 2 test cases ran. (6 ms total)
[ PASSED ] 0 tests.
[ FAILED ] 17 tests, listed below:
[ FAILED ] VideoCapture_Reading_ReadFile.ReadFile/0, where GetParam() = "highgui/video/big_buck_bunny.avi"
[ FAILED ] VideoCapture_Reading_ReadFile.ReadFile/1, where GetParam() = "highgui/video/big_buck_bunny.mov"
[ FAILED ] VideoCapture_Reading_ReadFile.ReadFile/2, where GetParam() = "highgui/video/big_buck_bunny.mp4"
[ FAILED ] VideoCapture_Reading_ReadFile.ReadFile/3, where GetParam() = "highgui/video/big_buck_bunny.mpg"
[ FAILED ] VideoCapture_Reading_ReadFile.ReadFile/4, where GetParam() = "highgui/video/big_buck_bunny.wmv"
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/0, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_00.bmp", false)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/1, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_00.bmp", true)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/2, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_01.bmp", false)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/3, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_01.bmp", true)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/4, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_02.bmp", false)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/5, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_02.bmp", true)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/6, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_03.bmp", false)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/7, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_03.bmp", true)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/8, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_04.bmp", false)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/9, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_04.bmp", true)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/10, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_05.bmp", false)
[ FAILED ] VideoWriter_Writing_WriteFrame.WriteFrame/11, where GetParam() = ("python/images/QCIF_05.bmp", true)

CAN U PLEASE HELP ME
NONE OF THE PROGRAMS ARE RUNNING

Re: Installing OpenCV

Mihnea Simian — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 04:17:44 -0000

Hello!
You're welcome! yes, you should have run "make clean" or "make distclean" before retrying install.

Re: Installing OpenCV

Yonas — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 02:08:00 -0000

It was my mistake man i have to edit CMakeCache.txt instead of CMakeList.txt. after that it works. than you! than you! really than you very much

Re: Installing OpenCV

Yonas — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:25:34 -0000

Hi Simian,
i sucessfully install OpenCv 2.4.7 on my old Dell Latitude C840 laptop (the OS is Lubuntu 12.04). i tried to disable all SSE in CMakeList.txt file, and then returned to cmake,make, and make install. but after all i still get the same error "Illegal instruction (core dumped)". do i have to remove OpenCV and reinstall it. please can you help me.

Re: Installing OpenCV

Mihnea Simian — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 04:58:48 -0000

I remember I wasn't able to run a Bomberman 90's game because the EEEPC-s lack some DOS cpu instructions. Virtualization did the trick (and it is always an option when dealing with old hardware). I'm glad that worked for you, good luck with your project and maybe link your result here!

Re: Installing OpenCV

Karl — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 04:52:04 -0000

"If you happen to get “Illegal instruction” while
running applications using OpenCV, you should disable some CPU
performance tunning in OpenCV makefiles (Actually cmake files). Edit
OpenCV/release/CMakeCache.txt, setting ENABLE_SSE2:BOOL=OFF. Then rerun cmake, make, make install. This is very common with old AMD CPUs (like Athlon XP)."

thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!

I know this is article is a bit old, but I have been pulling my hair out for days. After disabled all SSE it seems to be working. I am installing on a very old single core celeron. (ASUS eee 900 to drive an Arduino uno through usb)

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