Fans sheding

I suppose it depends on where you live.
I saw a fan on a 3 year old Canter truck strip all the blades when I was in the NT. Judging by the pile of shattered plastic on the road, 1 blade let go, jammed sideways and shattered all the rest back to the hub. The truck had spent its whole life there, so I suppose the heat got to it. Not much sun/UV can get under the bonnet.

My old Courier was almost always garaged on the NSW mid north coast and the fan was fine when the water pump bearing failed after 16 years. The fan got a quick steam clean and looked like new.

The Terrano II I had, the fan had what looked like hairline cracks showing around the hub after 5 years. After 8 years they hadn't changed and the blades were still flexible, so I re-installed it and got a few more years use before selling the thing.

I suppose there are a lot of variable, where it lives, who made the fan, the quality of plastic that went into it, all will influence it's service life. One of those 'inspect and replace if required' items.

There's been a lot of it (fan shedding) happening around Collingwood in Vic this year. Every weekend you see the toothless knuckle draggers wandering aimlessly around the streets. Long may it continue !!

Sorry couldn't resist it !!

Muz,

You sure it's the fan. You didn't clean up a wedgetail eagle or something??

(;-))

Cheers
Pop

Your fan has feathers??

I initial thought this post was about some sort of exotic dancer