Heater Resistor Repaired

After a rather uneventful day at work, I was almost done with my commute when I noticed that the heater I had set to stage 1 wasn't actually doing anything. I initially thought it might be a dodgy heater unit.

After a little investigation, it appeared that my heater resistors had gone (apparently very common in Rovers), thankfully this is a piece of cake to fix. Went on ebay and ordered a REZPAX repair kit for about £7. For anyone that has this problem, they have an instructional .pdf that might be of some use. Check out the link below.


How to fix MG ZR / Rover 25 heater resistors


To get at the heater resistor pack the glove box had to come out, so that was the first job. Then out with the resistor pack. This is what I was greeted with. It's not very clear in the second one, but you can just make out that the nearest resistor is split two coils from the left end.



Next I snipped off the old resistors and broke out the new set. (I forgot to take a picture of the new set not attached so I nabbed REZPAX image, my kit looked identical to the picture). Then just soldered them on. Refitted it and jobs a good'en, all settings work fine. Another plus is the resistors look a little better in quality too, so shouldn't go again.




Door Card Clips Replaced

Over the winter a couple of clips broke that hold the door card to the door frame. Apparently this is a common thing with Rovers, so I ordered a few off of ebay.

Got 10 for something like £2.50 posted, cheap as chips.






First job, get the door card off. If you want to know how I did that, take a look at my door card removal guide here - Door Cards - Removal and Refitting

After fetching the door card off, I noticed that one clip (the broken one) was still stuck in the door. You could also see that almost all of the clips were a different type. As I had bought 10, I decided to swap them all out for some new ones. Compared to the ones that were on it, the new ones looked a lot meatier too. After swapping them all out, I just put the door card back on and all is well. Holds nice and tight against the door.


Broken Clip



Mixed Old Clips



New Clips