[Spook50]

Originally Posted by wengejor

Spook,

Looks good.

The motors in the pic are not Bosch motors, but the fan and shroud assembly do look like Bosch components. There should be a Bosch symbol on the shroud and fan...if not then it is most likely an after-market copy from china. If it is an aftermarket assembly, you might want to make sure that the power will be cut if something goes wrong because you can end up with a fire under the hood.

Just a year ago I was working at the Bosch Waltham facility just outside of Boston where these fan/shroud assemblies are designed. Sometimes the after market ones were put on cars by the dealers as a replacement, then they would catch on fire and get sent to us where we had to figure out what happened...took awhile for us to realize they weren't even Bosch components!

wengejor

Good call on the identification. I'll have to pull the motors and see what actual manufacturer they are now. Was it pretty common for the Chinese crap to catch fire? I assume it was because of an internal short inside the motor?

I'd rather spend the extra money and replace any Chinese crap with a Bosch (or Denso for the stuff they make) motor any day.