Q: The blower motor does not turn on and the blower resistor starts smoking
When you turn the blower switch on the blower does not go on in any position and the blower resister starts smoking. I changed the blower resister and the new one starts smoking as soon as you turn the blower switch on. Could this be a bad blower motor?
My car has a manual transmission.
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