Calle, I believe the fan motor is the same as some of the other VW products, ie, Rabbit, Jetta, whatever. I remember some discussion about it on the list. If so, you might be able to get one  through your local wrecking/salvage yard.

Maybe some of the other list members that are more familiar can verify this.

Anyone???

Good luck.

John Rodgers
'88GL Driver
Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Calle Fallberg wrote:

> Yet another cold weather problem:
> When the temp. falls along with the snowflakes I detect the most annoying problem
> My defroster fan takes vacation
> At low and medium speed nothing happens at all and when I put it in high, there is the noice of a screeming pig comming out from the dashboard along with as much air as of a decent fart
> very effective against fog !!
> But before I start ripping the dash apart I thought I�ll ask you guys
> 1 this is because of the fan and not the swich right ??
> 2 is there a way of changing the bearings in the fan OR change it for some other not so vulnerable out of the
>    wreckyard fan, since a new fan is 3000 Swedish kroner ( �bout 400 US $ )
>
> I know that there is Vanagons in the wreckyard but it would be a pain in the ass to go through all that work and end up with one that is just as bad and it�s hard to try it out if the problem like the one I�ve got only occurs when below  zero degrees Celcius . It also seems like a common fault since the dealer said that " we normally have fans on the shelfs but right now they�re sold out "
>
> So what to do ??
>
> Calle
> -88 Vanagon
> Mullhyttan, Sweden
>
> BTW, I really LOVE the screensaver