Cooling Fan Fault

[upallnight]

Update:

So today the weather was actually mild enough to work on the X again. Decided to look more into why the aux fan was throwing up a DTC. Got my test light out, unplugged the fan connector and with the engine running I tested the terminals in the connector. None of the terminals lite up my test light. So I must have a blown fuse. Looked at my Bentley as to where the fuse for the aux fan was located and it right behind the glove box. After washing my hands so that I don't mess up the interior, I removed the glove box and there was the fuse box. Holy moly that a pretty big fuse, I don't think I have one of those in the garage. Proceeded to test the fuse and sure enough the fuse was blown. Check another fuse in the fuse box that was also a 50 amp fuse, but was mounted Horizontally instead of like the other fuses vertically. No power, so I removed the fuse hallelujah it's the spare fuse. Inserted the fuse in place of the blown fuse and went back outside to check the connector with my test light. Another Hallelujah the test light lite up. Should have remember what my dad taught me, fuse don't blow for no reason especially 50 amps fuse, but in my excitement to fix the X that little piece of advice didn't pop into my head. My wife thinks I'm coming down with Alzheimer. Plugged the connectors back together and before I could say Shazam, the genie in the fan came out. Having worked on British cars in my younger days I knew that once the genie left the wire, there was no way to put him back in. So it looks like the next expense will be a new aux fan.


..........................to be continue.