We are ready to sell our 2001 V70 XC but we need to fix some of the problems that have come up recently. They didn't happen all at once, but they did seem to happen over the course of a few months:
- Radiator fan stays on whether car is on or off, until battery dies.
- The brake lights and one of the tail lights is sometimes working, sometimes not. Both bulbs were just replaced
- The driver's side door panel mostly doesn’t work, except to roll down the driver's side window and adjust the driver's side mirror. All the buttons that control other doors’ windows don’t work. Sometimes the lock/unlock on that panel works, sometimes not.
- The other doors’ windows do work to roll each window down. The main lock/unlock works on the passenger front door and can be used when the driver lock/unlock doesn’t work (which is usually)
- The overhead light and moonroof control sometimes works and has (more recently been) sometimes totally dead. It goes off for a few days and then it _seems_ to work again after the car’s been sitting in the heat??? But I could be totally guessing.
I have unplugged the fan (see picture) which stops it from running, but this is cumbersome and make it difficult to sell. Attachment 5260
From the searching I've done it seems that the fan relay is a part of the entire fan assembly on this model, so perhaps getting a fan assembly from a junkyard and swapping it in will resolve that problem, but I'm not sure how difficult a job that is. I'm relatively handy but no expert. Thanks for your suggestions.
-tslugmo
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