Quirky heater issue on Dodge Caravan...

[SixshooterSam]

I dunno, maybe it's been doing that but just re-opening when I start it up again, but I likely shut it down 10 times on this last trip and it worked every time I started it back up, even after overnight shut-offs. Maybe it's SUPPOSED TO BE closing but it's just too sticky to close back up once shut down.

Fingers crossed on whether it'll fire up again after several days of being idle. Either way it seems this settles the issue, meaning it's either a weak actuator or sticky blend flap. LOL maybe just banging on it for a while will eventually free it up again...

My money is on the spindle being broken. The actuators never work intermittently in my experience, they either work or they don't. Never seen a sticky flap, but certainly possible. But the spindles are plastic and break. Known issue.

 

[Ronsmag]

When mine started screwing up first thing I noticed was fumes and not from my car then the clicking started then the heat came even when it was on A/C and the heat was blowing even when everything was shut off, then I would start the car and it would be fine but I would get loud clicking I was driving UBER and it was so loud I wouldn't drive like that, it would make the noise every 10 -20 minutes. That's when I took it to be repaired and the (a**hole)s only fixed 2 of the actuators then winter comes and I had to get the other 2 fixed by someone else