Confirming that I need to replace blower motor

If you're jarring an electric motor to make it run there's usually something internal amiss the part that spends isn't spinning straight it's wobbling what have you blower motors are generally inexpensive I would just replace it You want to bend the tabs and bust it open and dump all the carbon out of it and take a look at it by all means It's a throw away design basically so there's always that but you can believe guys in India and third world countries they'll bust that sucker open and spend two three hours fixing it or whatever it takes because they can and you're welcome to Just in our situations here it's usually just easier to grab a new blower motor for what $28 or something . I don't think that will be wasted money most people kind of want to have their heat and/or their air conditioning blowing when they command.

 

If it a 2010 with many miles on it, the brushes might be worn out and work intermittently.

 

gen 3 came with two possible blower motors: most had a conventional one with brushes, and the IV with the solar ventilation feature came with a brushless one, so it could do all the extra hours of the solar venting without wearing brushes out.

The blowers are interchangeable, so if you find a good deal on the brushless one, you'll never have a worn-brushes problem with it again.

 

Have the part numbers and the prices?

 

Not right at hand, but there was another thread not so long ago where I mentioned the same thing, and that person found them (and got a nice deal on the brushless one from a salvage yard, if I remember right).

 

Los salvage yards are probably let you have whichever one you bring up to the window or whatever here where I am the blower motors and things like that little relays they let you usually just have those so you saying this is an option with the solar roof car also or is this a special solar ventilation I have the solar roof on the 2010 I didn't know there was any kind of special ventilating business has a JBL stereo that no one ever plays but if that's the case then my red car has this fan so it's equivalent to brushless DeWalt tools versus the non brushless. Generally as long as my Toyota blowers have lasted I could take either It seems like a lot of these parts that are getting replaced here it never get replaced back in the day maybe we're keeping cars longer I don't know I've always kept mine long I can't remember replacing a blower motor in a '70s or '80s Toyota ever and I mean ever replace the resistor the thing in the little ceramic block and some switches probably unnecessarily but a blower motor almost never and it's only a 4-minute job to change. There are quite a few parts that seem to be like this quite amuses me actually

 

I guess the question is “ how much of the remaining time that you have on this earth do you want to spend messing with a blower motor?”

 

None that's what I mean in my older Toyota's those things lasted forever I was busy putting in hopped up funny engines that weren't available in the state in my imported trueno.

 

If you don't want to spend the money, take the motor out, and apart to get to the brushes.
Check hardware stores for replacement ones. And just replace them. Then clean up the
commuter really well. Good as new.
Same with window regulator motors.

 

The ventilating is the only thing the factory solar roof does. Helps keep the cabin from getting oven-like in hot weather. There's a switch to turn the feature on and off, near the dash light dimmer.

Some who have the solar roof have done mods so it also keeps the 12V battery charged, but that wasn't stock.

commutator

One thing to be careful about, depending on how many bolts hold the motor together. Sometimes the end cap with the brushes can be put back on more than one way. If you can reinstall it 180° around, that reverses the brush positions and the motor will spin the other way.

Because of the shape of the blower blade, it will sound like it's running and all, and it will blow a little bit of air, but way way less than when it spins the right way. I did that on a girlfriend's car once and we wondered for weeks why the heat was working so badly before catching my mistake.

 

Yep, 19 bucks pulled from a 2014 solar roof.

 

"I" never said it was a lot of work.
If you smack the blower motor, and it starts working, 98% of the time it's
the blower motor.
You could check the connections. Take the motor out, and just clean the area where the
brushes contact the commutator. Use contact cleaner....

Or, go through the test to check it is the motor or somewhere else.

 

"Doesn't always start, but then starts if you give it a clout" is pretty much what a brush-commutated motor does when the brushes are worn.