The HVAC sysytem in my 2002 4.4 HSE has been dodgy since I bought the vehicle last October. Every now and again, it starts to blow ice cold air from the dashboard vents, especially on long journies.

The blender motor was replaced just before I bought it. Shortly afterwards, my local dealer said they had found a broken pin in a connector and then replaced the blender motor again on a subsequent visit.

It has just been in for something else, so I asked them to look at it again. They can't replicate the fault, but say that the diagnostics indicate that the "Aspirator Motor" is faulty which "might" be causing the problem.

They have quoted £400 for the part and £200 labour to replace it.

The car is out of manufacturer warranty.

I'm hoping to get a 2nd hand motor and have a non-Land Rover 4X4 garage, who I know are good, fit it for much less.

Any ideas would be welcome.

wtf is a aspirator motor?

An aspirator, also called an ejector or filter pump, is a device that produces vacuum by means of the Venturi effect. In an aspirator, fluid (liquid or gaseous) flows through a tube which then narrows. When the tube narrows, the fluid's speed increases, and because of the Venturi effect, its pressure decreases. Vacuum is taken from this point.

God knows what that means, but I suspect it a widget that forms part of the vehicle's climate control system.

sounds a lot like a choke ( not the thing you pull fer cold startin) in a carbatooter

slob said:

sounds a lot like a choke ( not the thing you pull fer cold startin) in a carbatooter

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dont you mean sounds like a joke

i cant think what they are trying to charge you for, aspirator motor, never heard of this phrase on a rangerover, unless that is just the scottish terminology

and at 400 pounds for the part its sounds like a big part unless its the hevac ecu and that dont cost 200 pounds to replace

just to shed some light on the situation the aspirator motor is in the air conditioning ecu (control panel)

its the motor that spins behind the control panel to draw air in to measure the ambient temp

so if this sticks or fails then wrong reading will occur causing the probs you spoke about, so its the ecu (control panel) they will be replacing.