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i see thanks a lot for the information, i ll be testing it today

It snowed yesterday and it also got a bit icy and i didnt think of also removing the snow from the strakes below the windshield where blower motor gets its air from. Today i was driving and put on the blower motor it ran for 2-3 mins but then suddently i smelled something burning and immediately shut off the blower motor. Now it doesnt do anything when i move the lever. Its still below 0 degrees so is it possible that some ice found its way to the blower motor area and stopped it from working by jamming it or something? The blower motor itself was also new it was installed 2-3 months ago. Im guessing its a very low chance but maybe its not working because there is still some ice there and once it melts it should work? Or im guessing the other more likely case is that my blower motor got somehow destroyed since it also had a burning smell. Another thing i wanna ask is can this create a fire hazard? i know in bmw e34s if the resistor of the blower motor starts to smell and go bad then it could light up leaves and other crap that is gathered in there and set the whole car on fire. Can this also happen with cortina mk4s? If so would i still be fine by just not touching the fan at all and just keeping it off always and never put it in any other position?

I was looking at motomobils parts catalogue and saw that they are selling this anti dieseling solenoid https://www.motomobil.com/en/products/carburettor-solenoid-valve-anti-dieseling-kit-ohc-13-16l-only-for-single-choke-carburettor-15416730-8 But i went thru the german taunus workshop manual and couldnt find anything about this part in the manual so that makes me wonder is this part being sold some aftermarket kit that you can put on your car or did these come with the cars from the factory? Whenever i shut off the engine i also hear like a psssst vacuum kinda sound and i think these anti dieseling solenoids also work with vacuum but im not sure. So i was wondering if my car taunus tc2/cortina mk4 with 1.6 pinto motorcraft 1v carb has one of these or not. I tried looking for it in the engine bay but couldnt see something like this but maybe i missed it. Since i hear that psssst sound on shutdown i felt like it should have this part but i couldnt find it.

I see thanks a lot for the information

yes they always stop in that position, i tried putting on the wipers and shut off ignition just when the wipers were at bottom of windscreen then shut off the wiper switch in the steering column then started car and wipers stayed in normal position for about 20 seconds but then put themselves back to the upright position again. i also asked in a german forum and they said grease the wipers motor and check the wiring. I think i ll just take it to a shop and tell them about your method and the german forums method and hope they ll be able to fix it since i dont know anything about wiper mechanisms and know very little about electrical stuff.

Hello, i have a taunus tc2 so basically a lhd cortina mk4 and the wipers work fine at both speeds however when i stop them they return to the upright position as it can be seen in picture below instead of resting at the bottom of the windshield. What could be causing this issue and how could i fix it? Thanks in advance

Yeah some wd40 made it unstuck and i was able to adjust it further thanks for the help

Ah i see, i hope mine has the correct side and that its just seized up from dirt or something

It's the fixed type of mirror on mine , but also isnt the actual shape of passenger and driver side mirrors different? Or do you mean a "passenger" one from a UK rhd car that might have been put on my lhd taunus' drivers side. I live in Turkey so that prob didnt happen since we had no rhd cortinas in here. When i tried to bring down the mirror more it felt like it was about to break at a certain point so i thought that was the lowest setting but maybe the mechanism there is seized up i ll try a wd40 in there and try to move it down further. Thanks for the tip with wd40 i had a bottle somewhere that i completely forgot i had until you reminded me now

Hello everybody, i just bought a 1976 TC2 Taunus (Cortina mk4) however the left side mirror which is the drivers side for me is not showing the road. There is some small adjustment range on the mirror itself but even in the most downward setting the mirror is still showing the sky, i need to bring myself so much higher when sitting to actually see the road thru the left mirror. Is this normal, if not how could i fix this issue? I also bought the car from first owner that barely drove it since 1985 so it is legit at 90k kilometers so it is probably also the original mirror on it.