Hi everyone, looking for some opinions as to wether the below would work. The low speed resistor to the radiator fan has packed up so the fan is not kicking in at 105 Celsius. Not going to have a chance to change this for a while so I was thinking, if I put a jumper lead into the wiring as below (see red line) then the high speed fan would kick in when the ECU triggers the low speed. It looks like it will also kick in the Power steering fan too but that’s not the end of the world.
Being a 2002, it has the 2 plug set up with the relay located next to the resistor, so the external resistor mod isn’t a possibility. Any thoughts much appreciated.

 

A better temporary solution would be to jumper across the resistor to bypass it. Keeping that circuit separated from the other. If you notice the fan circuit has a 30A fuse the other is a 5A. If something failed on the rerouted circuit it would smoke because it has the 30A fuse now protecting it.

 

Thanks for your response. The issue is that it’s not possible to jump across the resistor without stripping the whole front down. If I do that then I may as well replace the resistor pack.