Q: blower motor or relay

asked by on June 18, 2016

when ac is on for about 20 min. the volume of air out of vents decreases and blower motor sounds like it has paper in it restricting the flow. Maybe motor or motor relay going bad?

My car has 64000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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