I've had my `88560SEL since Nov.

Although the A/C worked when I bought the car, I've left it
on the Economy setting most of the time I've driven the car.

I hit defrost today, which always seems to kick the fan on
high. I made a brief stop and shortly thereafter, I noticed
the unit wasn't working at all. I don't recall if I turned the
defrost off prior to it stopping.

Now, the fan isn't blowing so I can't tell if the whole system
is down or just the fan. None of the fuses, including #5 are
blown and I checked the strip fuse (as suggested elsewhere
on the forum) and it looks fine, too.

Other threads discuss repairing the climate control system,
replacing the brushes, etc. Most of those threads describe
intermittent problems with the system prior to failure that
helped pinpoint the problem.

That didn't happen for me except that I noticed when I turned
on defrost it seemed to blow high regardless of whether I set the
fan on high, auto or low.

Any advice would be appreciated. I'm a complete newbie when
it comes to this and normally have my mechanic deal with this.
Given some of the parts prices I've seen for the AC control unit,
the regulator and the blower, I'm willing to try some DIY here.

**************.com sells a little DIY kit for the replacing the
brushes on the blower motor for under $40 but I'm not sure that's
where the problem lies.

Thanks,

Bill

1988 560SEL w/131k

Thanks,

Bill