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For a month now my air control knob will only work on the highest setting. Just an hour ago my car quit blowing air all together and my air control know is VERY HARD to turn. I try turning the heat on to the floor and I hear the motor but nothing happens.

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Unplug the heater motor and put a hot wire to it to check the motor if it blows if the wire gets real hot you need to change the heater blower motor. You will probably need to change the heater fan motor resistor. follow the heater fan wire and it will go to the resistor

  • mjc234u Dec 10, 2010

    I am not mechanically savy...so if I take this to a mechanic I am sure they can do this. How much would it cost to replace these parts? Also could the knob be stripped also? If so can they just replace the knob?

  • Anonymous Dec 10, 2010

    he knob is cheap you can get it at the gm dealer parts department just pull it off and push the new one on around $20.00. If you need the motor it will run 200 to 300 to fix it.depending if you need the resistor to.

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