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[new 1995 owner]

Hello I am new to the hole mini thing, I have a 1994 mini sprite(35 special) with a 1275 cc engine.

The problem is that all the lights on the RH side side light curcit have stopped working, I have looked in the Haynes manual but my wiring dosnt seem to match any of the diagrams, any ideas on what's going wrong, any advice or help is greatly appreciated.

[hellom8]

With each Mini should come a multimeter.  If you don't have one, get one.  I got mine from Maplin for £10.

Anyway I would start with the bullet connectors behind the front grill.

Check to see if you have power going in and coming out.

I had issues and found simply pulling the connectors apart, cleaning them and putting back together solved the issue.

But I had power going into the connectors, but not coming out.

Cheers.

Iggy.

[new 1995 owner]

Just gone to my car, no power from the sockets and the instrument lights have stopped working aswell, thanks for the reply iggy

[Dan]

Later cars have split sidelight circuits so this is far more likely to be a fuse issue than a wiring fault. The right hand sidelights and instrument lighting are on a fuse together, so check the inline fuses. I believe it will have red/black wiring.

[Dan]

Sorry, red/white. Red/black is the left hand side and the number plate lamp.

[new 1995 owner]

Okay thanks will have to have a look when I finish work, I'll let you know how it gose. Thanks again.

[new 1995 owner]

Would the in-line fuse be located in the passenger compartment or the engine bay, many thanks.

[Dan]

  There is a small cluster of them by the air cleaner and another cluster behind the instruments.  The sidelight fuse should be behind the air cleaner under the bonnet.

[new 1995 owner]

Okay thanks I have took a picture of the wiers and fusses looks like a bad case of previous owner syndrome but I'm un shore how to get them on here because I'm using my phone as I'm away from home still. Do you have a email I could send them too for your advice. Thanks again.

[Ben_O]

Okay thanks I have took a picture of the wiers and fusses looks like a bad case of previous owner syndrome but I'm un shore how to get them on here because I'm using my phone as I'm away from home still. Do you have a email I could send them too for your advice. Thanks again.

Feel free to e-mail them to me and ill post them up here for you. I have PM'd you my e-mail address.

 

Ben

[Dan]

You can post direct from your phone, tap 'full version' at the bottom of the page and then 'More reply options' under the fast reply box.

[new 1995 owner]

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[Dan]

Oh. Wow.

You need to separate them out and clean the wiring to see the colours on the original cables properly, the colours of the spliced in sections won't help. I think we need to work out why you appear to have fuses in series with fuses because that's quite a bad idea. Myself I would remake all those with OE crimped inline glass fuse holders or maybe add another fuse box. It's a right mess. If you were closer I'd happily do it for you.

[new 1995 owner]

I know think I'm gona have to get the wiers and labels out, any idea where to get the white fuse holders from

[Ben_O]

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