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Hedgehog!
« on: 24 January 2018, 10:56:18 »
Hi guys! After a week with the Omega stuck in the snow, I managed to get it out yesterday. I drove it to the village with everything working ok, parked up for a couple of hours and jumped in to drive back home. No heater fan! Everything else works ok, panel lights etc. Now we have floods here but I did a reset, and checked fuse 33, all ok. Scuttle is clear. I am thinking it is the hedgehog! now where is the damn thing? and how to get to it? Cheers...TIA.  :y
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #1 on: 24 January 2018, 11:34:34 »
Sorry, I've missed something here! Hedgehog? What / where is there a hedgehog  ???
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #2 on: 24 January 2018, 11:41:22 »
I've not seen mine, but apparently it's the resistor unit that helps to vary the speed of the heater fan and it can get intercoursed if and when you annoint it with rainwater due to a blocked skuttle drain.
Someone wiser will be along soon to give more details, I'm sure......

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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #3 on: 24 January 2018, 11:44:11 »
So it's a resistor unit that looks like a hedgehog? Can't wait for the picky's of one... :D ;D ;D
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #4 on: 24 January 2018, 11:47:30 »
I did look for youi, but I can never find these things - i am sure there's a Guide showing where it is and how to remove it.....

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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #5 on: 24 January 2018, 11:49:25 »
Quote from: JDX on 24 January 2018, 11:44:11
So it's a resistor unit that looks like a hedgehog? Can't wait for the picky's of one... :D ;D ;D

http://www.channypicture.com/pic/Uploadfile/6/SKU095360/C02303CECCCFC6CDC6F81313037333CFC6C971C8F513.JPG

Looks more like a model of the alien reactor in Total Recall (the original), to me, really ;D
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #6 on: 24 January 2018, 11:56:57 »
So that's what it looks like! I was lucky; a couple of years ago I suffered from blocked skuttle-itis, but no harm done to the hedgehog.
I bet Vx no longer stock them?  :(

Ron.
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #7 on: 24 January 2018, 12:19:12 »
Quote from: aaronjb on 24 January 2018, 11:49:25
Quote from: JDX on 24 January 2018, 11:44:11
So it's a resistor unit that looks like a hedgehog? Can't wait for the picky's of one... :D ;D ;D

http://www.channypicture.com/pic/Uploadfile/6/SKU095360/C02303CECCCFC6CDC6F81313037333CFC6C971C8F513.JPG

Looks more like a model of the alien reactor in Total Recall (the original), to me, really ;D
He he he he! Now I get it - thanks.  :) :) :y
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #8 on: 24 January 2018, 12:21:42 »
Quote from: Bigron on 24 January 2018, 11:56:57
So that's what it looks like! I was lucky; a couple of years ago I suffered from blocked skuttle-itis, but no harm done to the hedgehog.
I bet Vx no longer stock them?  :(

Ron.
I had that not long ago - very painful & I think age related?!  :D
« Last Edit: 24 January 2018, 13:39:55 by Fuse 19 »
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #9 on: 24 January 2018, 12:22:57 »
Ooops..I'm rubbish with text - that was supposed to be highlighted, not struckthrough... :-[ :D
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #10 on: 24 January 2018, 13:33:56 »
Its in the heater trunking passenger side lay on back and look up to the trunking.It clips into the trunking. When I tried to get one out the clips broke off and then you have no way of holding the new hedgehog in.It was very cold when I did this and maybe the clips very brittle ,take great care in getting the hedgehog out.
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #11 on: 24 January 2018, 14:50:42 »
Quote from: JDX on 24 January 2018, 12:21:42
Quote from: Bigron on 24 January 2018, 11:56:57
So that's what it looks like! I was lucky; a couple of years ago I suffered from blocked skuttle-itis, but no harm done to the hedgehog.
I bet Vx no longer stock them?  :(

Ron.
I had that not long ago - very painful & I think age related?!  :D
I,ve got one hibernating in my garden. :D
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #12 on: 24 January 2018, 15:01:31 »
DON'T try shoving it up your trunking: not nice for either of you!  :o :o :o

Ron.
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #13 on: 24 January 2018, 16:26:45 »
Quote from: Bigron on 24 January 2018, 15:01:31
DON'T try shoving it up your trunking: not nice for either of you!  :o :o :o

Ron.
Oooerr.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Hedgehog!
« Reply #14 on: 24 January 2018, 16:57:04 »
It can help clear out the Farmer Giles though
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