Electrical Fire

[kaye]

electric windows/interior light/central locking fuse keeps blowing?!

any ideas on what this could be? i've replaced it 5 times now and its just blowing straight away?!? i dont really wanna be sending it to a garage yet as i'm a bit on the skint side

 

[kaye]

anybody???
i was kinda hoping this was a common fault so i could get some advice

 

[george.george]

pull down and disconnect the interior lamp.
if it stops blowing replace it. it fairly common.

 

[TllEWL]

Good advice really, unplug anything you can easily lay your hands on

Might be worth getting one of those circuit-breaker fuses from Maplins (about £6 IIRC) so you don't waste a ton of fuses

Climate display in my Toledo stopped working and it was a short on the wire burried somewhere behind the dash Auto-electrician who diagnosed it just fed a new supply to the screen and by-passed the short. Don't know if there's a hole the loom is routed through, or someone had just been tampering with mine in the past - these sorts of faults seem few and far between.

 

[davemotor]

check for any sign of burnt terminals in the dash fuseboard, seen that too . . . . .

 

[kaye]

Had a problem with the leon for the past month or so... fuse 14 kept blowing, found the culprit was the interior light so i took the bulbs out with the intention of getting it looked at when i had some spare cash.
Just before christmas the engine management light came on so i took it to the garage... they had to book me in after new year because there was no power to the socket for the diagnostic.
i was shocked to find out that there had been an actual electrical fire inside the car and i was oblivious!
the wires on the interior light had over-heated and burned the wires away right down to behind the dash... so i've had to have the whole thing rewired

has anyone else had this? a bloke at the garage had a passat go up in flames last year, and i know someone with an Audi that set on fire too

 

[DPJ]

When fuse 14 kept blew, did you at some point replace it with one of higher amperage?

 

[kaye]

yep! i replaced it 6 times with different fuses... just kept blowing them!
i did post it on here at the time to see if anyone else had ideas of what it could be

 

[DPJ]

Your fire is a good example of why you shouldn't replace a blown fuse with one of a higher rating.......

 

[lc_allan]

Had a problem with the leon for the past month or so... fuse 14 kept blowing, found the culprit was the interior light so i took the bulbs out with the intention of getting it looked at when i had some spare cash.
Just before christmas the engine management light came on so i took it to the garage... they had to book me in after new year because there was no power to the socket for the diagnostic.
i was shocked to find out that there had been an actual electrical fire inside the car and i was oblivious!
the wires on the interior light had over-heated and burned the wires away right down to behind the dash... so i've had to have the whole thing rewired

has anyone else had this? a bloke at the garage had a passat go up in flames last year, and i know someone with an Audi that set on fire too

***, hope it gets sorted. Through the insurance or cash job?.
How much does a rewire cost?

 

[lc_allan]

Had a problem with the leon for the past month or so... fuse 14 kept blowing, found the culprit was the interior light so i took the bulbs out with the intention of getting it looked at when i had some spare cash.
Just before christmas the engine management light came on so i took it to the garage... they had to book me in after new year because there was no power to the socket for the diagnostic.
i was shocked to find out that there had been an actual electrical fire inside the car and i was oblivious!
the wires on the interior light had over-heated and burned the wires away right down to behind the dash... so i've had to have the whole thing rewired

has anyone else had this? a bloke at the garage had a passat go up in flames last year, and i know someone with an Audi that set on fire too

***, hope it gets sorted. Through the insurance or cash job?.
How much does a rewire cost?

Why has 'w o w' been censored?
m0rk not like the game or something?

 

[sparkyc]

heard a great story bout couple of yanks driving their pick up home, fuse went for head lights so wedge'd a bullet from his .22 rifle in there, heated up, exploded and blew one of his bollocks off!!