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[minidaves]

wonders if you have a stage 1 kit on your car, comman reason for this fuse to blow is reverse light swtch shorting out againes the exhaust pipe

[Sam_The_Man]

i do. where is this? it seems to be an intermittant blowing of fuses. so surely not a connection problem?

ive checked the bit underneath the fuel tank but dont know where this reverse switch is?

[Sam_The_Man]

bump anyone?

[jimnali]

The reversing light switch is in the rod change mechanism under the car - in the base of the gera change in the right hand side. To test whether this is the cause the simplest temporary solution might be to disconnect the wiring beside the gear lever under the front carpet.
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Edited by jimnali, 01 July 2012 - 08:14 PM.

[Sam_The_Man]

This is quite interesting. I've disconnected the reverse light wires by the gear stick, and get presto, no blown fuses! So I'm getting somewhere! So the problem is being cause by the reverse lights line? Both indicators now work and so do the break lights. Obviously no reverse but that is pretty much trivial at the mo. cheers. I feel 100000% better I know slightly what's going on
:)

[jimnali]

The problem could be a short in the cabvle to the reversing light or (as Minidave suggested) the switch itself shorting on the exhaust. Try connecting together the two wires by the gear stick - if the fuse doesn't blow and the rev lights work then the switch is the cause!

[Sam_The_Man]

Just having a look in my Haynes. I've got the car jacked up (passenger side) and can see where the wires
Come though the floor and then into the square box very near to te exhaust. If I reconnect the reverse wires after giving them a bit of a wiggle to move them and it blows that's e switch? I'm reading that right yeah? And if it's the switch itself, my mechanic is sorting that out :)