# Heater Blower Motor noise

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/heater-blower-motor-noise/69741>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** x5, bmw\
**Created:** [November 29, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/heater-blower-motor-noise/69741 "2011-11-29T03:12:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Duffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Duffy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Duffy)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/heater-blower-motor-noise/69741/1 "2011-11-29T03:12:45Z")

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I have a 2005 BMW X5 and the heater motor makes a shrill noise only when I am turning right. Suggestions?

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**Author:** ![ken\_green](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/ken_green/32/816_2.png) [@ken\_green](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ken_green)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/heater-blower-motor-noise/69741/2 "2011-11-29T05:05:24Z")

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Worn bushings in the motor, probably time for a new blower motor unless an industrial electric motor specialty or starter and alternator shop thinks it’s rebuildable. ( but for the price of a new motor it’s probably ‘‘totaled’’ when compared to a rebuild. )

The centrifugal force of turning pulls it off of it’s natural running center and it is scraping something like it’s housing.