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With the cold weather upon us I started noticing that the rear defroster doesn't do too well...It took me a while to finally come to a conclusion that it indeed doesn't seem to work.
So, I read up about defroster grid repair and things of that nature, and started doing it the proper way - voltmeter out and at it.
Well. the reading seemed ok, so that left me with the only possible reason - the grid must be not connected to the ground....God damn, I hate pulling off interiour trim pieces.
Surely the ground connector was not plugged in to the grid. I suspect nobody even tried connecting it - the wire was resting peacefully all the way away from where it should've been. I spend following 20 minutes doing the contortionist act of trying to plug the ground connector to the grid though a small opening the trim allowed without more serious disasembly.
But I got it, the grid works now.
I am constantly amazed at those seemingly impossible tasks a humah hand can do. All you need is some time twisting your wrist about and it somehow works out eventually.
Also love those thick bendable interious plastics in the Bu..you can abuse them a little and they don't break.
Those unionized assembly workers! Argh
So, I read up about defroster grid repair and things of that nature, and started doing it the proper way - voltmeter out and at it.
Well. the reading seemed ok, so that left me with the only possible reason - the grid must be not connected to the ground....God damn, I hate pulling off interiour trim pieces.
Surely the ground connector was not plugged in to the grid. I suspect nobody even tried connecting it - the wire was resting peacefully all the way away from where it should've been. I spend following 20 minutes doing the contortionist act of trying to plug the ground connector to the grid though a small opening the trim allowed without more serious disasembly.
But I got it, the grid works now.
I am constantly amazed at those seemingly impossible tasks a humah hand can do. All you need is some time twisting your wrist about and it somehow works out eventually.
Also love those thick bendable interious plastics in the Bu..you can abuse them a little and they don't break.
Those unionized assembly workers! Argh