[kongwilder]

Hey there I'm a newbie to this wild world of car repair threads, and by no means a VW professional.

I happenned to find this thread whilst searching for fuse diagrams for my 98 New Beetle, as I recently over heated my car and realized my fan was not running.

I was about to bring in into my local general repair place but I thought I'd check the fuses before dropping it off.

Anyhow I found the Burnt up fuse that is mentioned in this and other threads here on this site.

I have yet to mess around with the temp switch to verify whether or not my fans will work without the AC on.

However I did turn my AC on to see the fans Spin, and I noticed that they were making a loud noise. I spoke to my father who uses to work his own cars mostly, and he suggested WD40 into the fan bearing, and to spin it by hand to see if there is any improvement.

Now that I sprayed so off brand WD40 into there the fans don't make the loud noise anymore.

I believe that if the fan is having problems spinning that this may be what is causing the extra current through the fuse.

When the professional said the fan was failing, it may be that it is just having problems with friction, from not being run for a long time.

I noticed my problem this Spring, and I use my AC as little as possible.

Instead of buying a $300+ fan I'm going to try to run my WD40'ed fan for a while, This is only my first failure so far.