Thank you so much for this. Hot air was not coming to the driver side and my local mechanic quoted me around $500 to get it fixed. But thanks to your video my hvac is working again, my wallet isnt empty, and I have the satisfaction of fixing something myself.
this is a great video! i had this problem for the past few months and thanks to your video, the heat is coming into the drivers side beautifully! you saved me quite a bit of money; i can only imagine how much this would have cost at a repair shop. i had it done in less than an hour. i did exactly as you did. thank you so much!
You are a gem. Thank you for sharing this. I love the end line about putting the tools back. But, If you fix the car then there is no reason to complain!
PERFECT hack. I disconnected mine. Mine is stuck on cold position .The arm that's attached to the actuator I manually lifted the arm up. It instantly go hot. I took some black electrical tape and taped it up so the arm wouldn't drop down( get cold). NOW it the summer i will just remove the tape BAM cold again. Saves me 250$ buying one.
Very nice. It wasn't really clear what was wrong with your actuator, but glad it's working now. I took mine out and the white plastic actuator arm was distorted. I guess from heat. Took out the heat gun and made it true again. Easy fix and didn't need to be Elastic Man to take the part out. I wish my GMC Sierra was like that :P
My drivers side actuator was not working and did not get hot air. Removed it and opened it up. The motor was not seated and was not touching the contacts. Cleaned it and used the extra grease inside and reinstalled. Worked perfect. Thank you!
I used this video and a couple others to DIY this fix. The mechanic quoted us $1500 to fix two actuators. We used this video instead to do the work ourselves and saved $1200! It was a homeschool family project. Great hands-on learning for the kids! See the story at: @t
same problem - the driver side actuator won't let me at the contacts to clean them. what did you actually do when you put your finger under there? it looks like maybe you just pressed the contacts up against the wheel and then spun it manually. is that right? thanks!
All I did was redistribute the lubricant that was already in there, the wheel was dried out in the areas it needed to spin smoothly. You could figure a way to get more lubricant in there then spin the wheel.
The actual issue isn’t grease it’s carbon build up, just like what happens to the rest of the actuators. You can pop off the arm if you are lucky or break it off, clean out the carbon and grease with alcohol, and apply dielectric grease on the tracks and contacts, put it back together, and throw some JB weld on the arm assembly. You might be able to clean off the carbon build up with your fingers but doing it blind there will be lots of it built up on the contacts. Good luck!
Thank you so much for this. Hot air was not coming to the driver side and my local mechanic quoted me around $500 to get it fixed. But thanks to your video my hvac is working again, my wallet isnt empty, and I have the satisfaction of fixing something myself.
this is a great video! i had this problem for the past few months and thanks to your video, the heat is coming into the drivers side beautifully! you saved me quite a bit of money; i can only imagine how much this would have cost at a repair shop. i had it done in less than an hour. i did exactly as you did. thank you so much!
You are a gem. Thank you for sharing this. I love the end line about putting the tools back. But, If you fix the car then there is no reason to complain!
Excellent. Thank you for posting this because I have the exact some problem on a '07 and my wife's solution is "please fix my car".
PERFECT hack. I disconnected mine. Mine is stuck on cold position .The arm that's attached to the actuator I manually lifted the arm up. It instantly go hot. I took some black electrical tape and taped it up so the arm wouldn't drop down( get cold). NOW it the summer i will just remove the tape BAM cold again. Saves me 250$ buying one.
thank you so much for posting this video, helps me to work on my toyota, its excellent and appreciate it
Very nice. It wasn't really clear what was wrong with your actuator, but glad it's working now. I took mine out and the white plastic actuator arm was distorted. I guess from heat. Took out the heat gun and made it true again. Easy fix and didn't need to be Elastic Man to take the part out. I wish my GMC Sierra was like that :P
My drivers side actuator was not working and did not get hot air. Removed it and opened it up. The motor was not seated and was not touching the contacts. Cleaned it and used the extra grease inside and reinstalled. Worked perfect. Thank you!
how'd you clean it and what type of grease did you use?
nice vid jen i liked your video and helping solving solutions 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I used this video and a couple others to DIY this fix. The mechanic quoted us $1500 to fix two actuators. We used this video instead to do the work ourselves and saved $1200! It was a homeschool family project. Great hands-on learning for the kids! See the story at: @t
Im a giiirl and watching this and learning how to do this right now and the ending though..yep gotta put those tools back 🤣🤣
I'm trying this today!
Wow...that was easy.. you are awesome 👌
Cool
do you by chance, know what videos you originally watched to clean the actuator. Thanks.
Yes- “2006 Sienna - How to repair or replace a clicking temperature ...”
ruclips.net/video/xU1HqbCxA84/видео.html
How do you go about cleaning it and what type of grease, if so what type?
I just wanted to know, what were the symptoms?
same problem - the driver side actuator won't let me at the contacts to clean them. what did you actually do when you put your finger under there? it looks like maybe you just pressed the contacts up against the wheel and then spun it manually. is that right? thanks!
All I did was redistribute the lubricant that was already in there, the wheel was dried out in the areas it needed to spin smoothly. You could figure a way to get more lubricant in there then spin the wheel.
The actual issue isn’t grease it’s carbon build up, just like what happens to the rest of the actuators. You can pop off the arm if you are lucky or break it off, clean out the carbon and grease with alcohol, and apply dielectric grease on the tracks and contacts, put it back together, and throw some JB weld on the arm assembly. You might be able to clean off the carbon build up with your fingers but doing it blind there will be lots of it built up on the contacts.
Good luck!
It's the blend door actuator motor the same part number for the passenger on the dual climate control?
Thanks
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