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Old Sep 15th, 2010, 11:24   #5
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Originally Posted by Amazonjulian View Post
You know what I'm not the first person here to talk about easy fixes this week. As I said before the wiring under my dash is beautifully unmolested. It turned out to be the fusebox. A case of slow and steady does the job. Despite the fact that I had cleaned the fuses and connections as my first port of call- more cleaning was necessary- just goes to show how bright it all needs to be.
Yes, it's often surprising as to the issues that a grotty fusebox can cause. Replacing* mine immediately cured several electrical problems, the strangest being that operating the headlight flasher resulted in no headlight flash (despite the click of the relay), but also knocked out the entire circuit that also runs the brake lights, but without blowing the fuse..... Ron's excellent advice came to the rescue in solving that one

*in case you haven't seen it, there's a write-up on Ron's site about reconditioning the fuseboxes. I didn't have time to do that as my car is used daily.
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