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Finally received my 2003 E55 yesterday and I'm loving it. Have lots of things I need to fix on it, but it's a 120k mile clean title car and I got it for $8500. The guy even included 4 brand new coilovers in case I decide to ditch the airmatic, which I don't want to.
Anyways, I'm going through the car and seeing what isn’t working. I noticed the backlighting on my gauges isn't on (needles are lit and message center works), and the blower motor don't come on, even at max. Almost feels like a faint amount of air is coming out, but barley. I saw a post in here where someone said it might be related, but never replied with anything. Has anyone experienced these two, and could they be related? Could it be the day/night sensor on the dash? Or wherever it is. Thank you. I threw in some pics of the car.
Last edited by Franco802; Feb 8, 2024 at 01:01 AM.
So I did a battery ground disconnect and let it sit about 1 minute, still nothing. But right now after coming back 40 minutes later I decided to try the original key. I had a new key made today by a locksmith. And I remember the hvac working yesterday when I received the car and only had the original key. So I threw the og key in and the blower worked normal. Then i tried the new key and it also worked. Although the backlighting on the cluster is still out. Weird.
Finally received my 2003 E55 yesterday and I'm loving it. Have lots of things I need to fix on it, but it's a 120k mile clean title car and I got it for $8500. The guy even included 4 brand new coilovers in case I decide to ditch the airmatic, which I don't want to.
Anyways, I'm going through the car and seeing what isn’t working. I noticed the backlighting on my gauges isn't on (needles are lit and message center works), and the blower motor don't come on, even at max. Almost feels like a faint amount of air is coming out, but barley. I saw a post in here where someone said it might be related, but never replied with anything. Has anyone experienced these two, and could they be related? Could it be the day/night sensor on the dash? Or wherever it is. Thank you. I threw in some pics of the car.
I just went through the blower motor issue with my car. I replaced the resistor/controller for the fan as the fan itself had been replaced a few years ago. That got it working for a while. I ultimately ended up replacing the fan as well. It had a bad bearing and would barely turn even on high. I purchased the parts from FCP Euro. Try to get the Behr part for the fan. The cheap Chinese knockoffs are of pretty low quality. I did use a Chinese resistor as the OEM one was crazy expensive. I paid about $50 for it. If it fails, I'll buy the OEM one.
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