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Heater blowing cold air.

You can feel hot air coming thru the ducts until you turn the fan up,then it blows cold.

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    heater fan extremely loud when turned on, still will blow air

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Replace thermostat its clugged,and only allows very little water to go through

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Hi and welcome to FixYa,

Initially, the blower/fan is both used for cold and hot. It is the vents/vanes that closes/opens where the air being blown out would be coming from, the heater or the A/C. Often, there are linkages that gets misaligned, out of position, bent, broken or simply drop off. Should this be the case, then even with the levers/controls set at hot/heater, and the heater working, the vents are drawing air from the A/C section (even if it is not working) and not from the heater core.

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Check the water contol valve operation ( under hood connected to heater hoses), do you have a full load of coolant?, also air mix door under dash, is the temp of the coolant hot?.Check them all out, you'll find it

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