Rear defrost inoperative

[wehan]

OK. Found somethig. Pull the small little door on passenger side on the kick panel. Like sit Kk passenger side and bottom left is a panel. Pull it. Check the wiring to the BCM and check the fuses for the HVAC. Report back.

As best as I can tell the wiring looks good, fuses for hvac all good.

 

[Bass_Waves]

Pull em and check it. Fuse 16. I'm searching for the wire number to do a ohm test from bcm plug to rear defroster.

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"found a connector beside the left rear speaker under the deck lid inside the car was burnt. I cut an soldered the wire together for the rear window defogger and found it "

Found that. Apparently in the trunk. If u lower the seats u can see from inside. There is a plug on the left speaker for the rear window. Check that plug.

 

[wehan]

Found the power wire and it checks out all the way back to the rear seat belt mount area, I loose it there so now I'm pulling rear side panels to further trace it, hope I don't have to pull the rear deck cover.

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Found the problem.

Time for some soldering and creative splicing. I figure I'll get the next size or 2 up from what's used here and bypass the plug, Solider in the new larger gauge piece and shrink wrap the whole chunk.

 

[Bass_Waves]

That's the plug under the seats right???? It looks like it

 

[wehan]

That's the plug under the seats right???? It looks like it

Under the rear deck cover, you can see the edge of my plok 6x9 in the upper left corner.... I just put these speakers in about a month ago and you think I would have noticed that!

 

[Bass_Waves]

Haha I guess I gave good info to look look. At least Ur issue is in front of you ^_^

 

[wehan]

Haha I guess I gave good info to look look. At least Ur issue is in front of you ^_^

Yeah, in a way I wish I could have gotten to it from the trunk, but at the same time it will be so much easier to solder there, I'd have to get into positions that would impress a Porn star to solder that if it was under the deck in the trunk lol

 

[Bass_Waves]

Lol. Hahahahahahahaha get a star and ask her. "show me how its done on a cobalt" lol

 

[wehan]

http://www.chevycobaltforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=157951

You can see that plug at the bottom.

 

[Bass_Waves]

LMAO of all places.

 

[YelloEye]

How many pins is that connector? You can replace the whole thing if you want to keep it clean. I wonder how it melted like that.

You can look up the connector here and then use the part number to find it online. http://www.acdelcotechconnect.com/pi/wiring-connectors/

 

[Bass_Waves]

From reading. That's a common issue
Go figure

 

[wehan]

How many pins is that connector? You can replace the whole thing if you want to keep it clean. I wonder how it melted like that.

Yeah it's a little disturbing to see that kind of damage under a flammable deck cover. I'm just going to splice in a good piece of wire, it's hidden away so as long as it works (better than before lol) I'm good with it.

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I was told it's how gm plans to keep selling cars, if they burn them all down around 150k miles people will think "well it was high milage" lol

 

[YelloEye]

Strangest "common" issue I've ever heard of. Good thing you caught it before it transformed into a Ferrari

 

[wehan]

Strangest "common" issue I've ever heard of. Good thing you caught it before it transformed into a Ferrari

Lol I did read about one "Ferrari conversion" where the whole rear drivers side corner burnt up but luckily they were at a stoplight with no passengers.

 

[wehan]

Fixed, spliced in a piece of 12ga wire (factory was 14) all is well now.

 

[Bass_Waves]

Good stuff

 

[YelloEye]

Awesome. I don't know what I'd do without my rear defrost.