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Cooling fans do not work. How do you fix?

Car is overheating due to cooling fans not coming on. Replaced the cool fan relay, and swapped the relays for cool fans 1 and cool fans 2. Have power to some of the connectors on the relays, but not all. Not sure when and which ones should be receiving power. Also replaced the temp sensing unit. Cooling fans have been jumped to the battery and do work. Going to the fans are 4 wires, white and gray for cooling fan, and black and blue for the A/C fan. Black is the only one to receive power at any point in time. Turned A/C on and cold air no longer comes out, but may be unrelated, either way fan does not come on. Unsure as to where the white and gray wires lead without pulling apart the wire coverings. Should black be the only one to receive power? And may this be the root cause?

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The fans only run when the engine reaches approxminatly 235 degrees F. on the guage that is near the end of scale just before guage show "HOT" I don't think you have a problem, allot of folks out there don't know about this.

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  • Posted on Mar 31, 2009

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The sensor thats screw in the intake is bad.Thats what reads the temperature and turns the fan on.There should be a couple of sending units that are screwed in the intake around the thermostat housing.Its a two wire.You may have to follow the wires from the fan to it or you can when getting the new sensor match it or have them give you a print out of where its at.I hpoe this is helpful for you.Have A Great Day...

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  • Posted on Sep 12, 2009

SOURCE: cooling fans on 04 aztec not working

Their is a sensor screwed into the radiator which sends a signal to the fan relay when the radiator gets hot and activates the fan. If you changed the relay then this is most likely the problem. But it may be the fan. To check remove the plug from the fan and when radiator get's hot check if power is comming through the wire's.

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