Re: Vulgalour's Vehicles - 28/02 Princess
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:40 pm
You can tell how modern a car is by how many cup holders it has. The Princess has three cup holding locations, it is therefore very modern.
Mike and I have been trying to get to the bottom of the problem of the weird electrical issue that has manifested. It's probably the car demonstrating pre-MoT nerves. Or a problem with the earth. Anyway, we got the fog lights working today after I dismantled the dashboard and the switch bank and cleaned it all up. Thing is, they only worked with the heated rear screen switch, not the fog light switch. Thinking I'd just got the connectors muddled I swapped them around and now they don't work at all, the fog light switch won't even illuminate where before both HRS and fog switches illuminated as normal. I do not understand this at all.
The high level brake light was installed too and tested. It works very nicely. Then the main brake lights wouldn't work.
Then only two brake lights wanted to work.
So we took the backs off the inner light clusters and all the brake lights work normally. The indicators are working properly again too. The hazards won't work because the relay appears to have died. The only loose wire found anywhere was the earth wire that connects between the bulkhead and the back of the radio. It's still blowing fuse #5. The wiring seems to check out but clearly something, somewhere, is wrong. I'm putting this down to it being sat doing very little for three years because the problem seems to be wandering around the car and affecting different items seemingly randomly.
I have had problems with the electrics on this car in the past, just never to this degree. Fuse #5 blowing is a complete mystery, there appears to be no cause for it though obviously there must be. The bulbs in the dashboard that aren't illuminating are perfectly fine, so it's odd that they won't light up. The rear lights do and have all worked so it's odd that occasionally they don't and not always in the same way. Normally you'd expect a loose connection or some corrosion to cause an issue like this but as far as we can find there's nothing of the sort and there aren't that many places to check as the wiring is, for a car, pretty simple. I do know it's not because some things have been modified from standard as we have had everything working without a problem, there's even photographs to prove things are working as they should. The fuse blowing has only started happening after this push to get the car MoT ready too, which is what makes that one extra odd.
I don't know, it's all very strange and mysterious because electrics. Mike's determined to figure out what the problem is and I'm going to try again to learn how to interpret the arcane symbols known as wiring diagrams and how they translate what you see in the physical plane.
Mike and I have been trying to get to the bottom of the problem of the weird electrical issue that has manifested. It's probably the car demonstrating pre-MoT nerves. Or a problem with the earth. Anyway, we got the fog lights working today after I dismantled the dashboard and the switch bank and cleaned it all up. Thing is, they only worked with the heated rear screen switch, not the fog light switch. Thinking I'd just got the connectors muddled I swapped them around and now they don't work at all, the fog light switch won't even illuminate where before both HRS and fog switches illuminated as normal. I do not understand this at all.
The high level brake light was installed too and tested. It works very nicely. Then the main brake lights wouldn't work.
Then only two brake lights wanted to work.
So we took the backs off the inner light clusters and all the brake lights work normally. The indicators are working properly again too. The hazards won't work because the relay appears to have died. The only loose wire found anywhere was the earth wire that connects between the bulkhead and the back of the radio. It's still blowing fuse #5. The wiring seems to check out but clearly something, somewhere, is wrong. I'm putting this down to it being sat doing very little for three years because the problem seems to be wandering around the car and affecting different items seemingly randomly.
I have had problems with the electrics on this car in the past, just never to this degree. Fuse #5 blowing is a complete mystery, there appears to be no cause for it though obviously there must be. The bulbs in the dashboard that aren't illuminating are perfectly fine, so it's odd that they won't light up. The rear lights do and have all worked so it's odd that occasionally they don't and not always in the same way. Normally you'd expect a loose connection or some corrosion to cause an issue like this but as far as we can find there's nothing of the sort and there aren't that many places to check as the wiring is, for a car, pretty simple. I do know it's not because some things have been modified from standard as we have had everything working without a problem, there's even photographs to prove things are working as they should. The fuse blowing has only started happening after this push to get the car MoT ready too, which is what makes that one extra odd.
I don't know, it's all very strange and mysterious because electrics. Mike's determined to figure out what the problem is and I'm going to try again to learn how to interpret the arcane symbols known as wiring diagrams and how they translate what you see in the physical plane.