This grind or click sound is actually the plastic gears stripping inside.
Passenger blend door actuator traverse.
Just had blend door actuator replaced by pep boys and they said i need to take to dealer to have them recalibrate.
Parts counter people call this the upper actuator.
A blend door actuator is made up of an electric motor that turns a plastic gear set in one direction or another which is connected to an air control door pivot at the final drive of the unit.
I thought i had a problem with blend door actuator but that is not the problem.
This hvac heater blend door actuator is precision engineered to match the quality and performance of the original blend door actuator on specific vehicle years makes and models.
An actuator can go bad in of two ways.
On the gmc acadia and the chevrolet traverse the replacement part number for the blend door actuator is 15 73989.
First the electric motor can burn out rendering the unit non responsive so nothing changes when the temperature or.
2017 chevy traverse drivers side blows cool air and passenger side blows hot air.
Pointing out the correct location of the actuator that controls temperature.
This actuator assembly might fit a few other models but double check the part numbers for your car.
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