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[maph2]

does anyone know what these do - they are located on the bulkhead in the engine bay on the passenger side. as ever, haynes is most helpful

[koss]

http://www.minispare...s...;ty=fi&rt=1


Hope that helps

[maph2]

it says:-

for front spot,fogs indicators and alarm-The relays for the electrics appeared from about 1990 on and all single point injection cars and are colour coded for ease

mine could be redundant then. will have to check.

ta

[whiskymac]

Yeah those yellow ones on the passenger side are for front fog/spot lights if fitted

[Sprocket]

Personaly i thought the left one was for the electric fan

[robson]

i think one has brown wires going into it from the starter solenoid? something to do with stopping the starter continually turning over even when ignition is off?

[Dan]

The starter relay is the other side of the engine bay.

Different cars had different numbers of relays fitted to that bracket, I think the basic two are for the cooling fan and Hazard changeover (but that last one might be inside the car, not too sure). Later cars had a single flasher unit and a relay to turn on the indicators instead of two flasher units. Injection and various options such as front fogs add more relays to the bracket.

Edited by Dan, 12 January 2007 - 06:57 PM.

[fikus01]

1 feeds power to your half dipped headlights relay so when the ignition is off only the sidelights work, and the other feeds the indicators so they dont work with the ignition off!!

[Sprocket]

So where is the electric fan relay???

Exact colour of wires and its tracer please

Edited by Mini Sprocket, 12 January 2007 - 09:31 PM.

[robson]

one of the yellow relays has feeds from the starter motor solenoid, is what i was implying. Most likely to power it?

[Sprocket]

Theres a hint of vagueness in this topic i think

[koss]

When i built the zcars mini, i made a fresh harness putting all circuits on the same line ie side lights and left to right on the same fuse. The two yellow relays on mine (1994 carb 1275) one did nothing and the other was the fan, it had the wires for the front fogs but none fitted.

[fikus01]

i didnt think the electric fan had a relay!! just a switch!! and thats the 1 at the bottom of the rad!! if anything i guess it'd come on with the indicator circuit!! u know how rover lked to bundle things together!

Edited by fikus01, 13 January 2007 - 01:18 AM.

[Sprocket]

I will Bottom this later!!!!

[Dan]

The cooling fan uses a yellow relay with purple and black/green wires for the load side and light green/orange and light green/white wires for the switching side. Light green/orange comes from fuse 3, light green/white runs to the thermic switch, purple from line fuse #5 and black/green to the fan motor.

The dim-dip lighting system uses only one relay, the big pink one under the dash. It forces the dipped beam lamps to come on at 30% brigthness if the sidelights only are turned on and the ignition is on. That is all it does, nothing else. Your lights do work with the ignition off, honest.

I'm now pretty sure they are for indicators and cooling fan. The simple answer is of course to pull them out and see what doesn't work.