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Although we’d been busy working on David’s Jeep, there were still a few jobs that needed doing, including the blower which had ceased to operate. We both though that it was the actual motor that had packed up, but fortunately this didn’t prove to be the case. Our investigations revealed that the blower motor resistor had been replaced (the resistor is a known weak point), but whoever was tasked with this job didn’t do anything about the burnt wiring (burnt as a result of the resistor failure) and simply

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