Electric Problem & a Squeak???

[jonny116]

What is this japanese voodoo?

Well i thought it must be a fuse, but checked them and they all in tact.  Am wondering whether to replace them all and see what happens??

Head unit is sorted now though and have tunes working fine!!  cheers!!

[Nik da Greek]

Black magic sounds bout right!!!  
 
Yeah it has Blistein adjustbles on it.  How did you stop the squeek? is sending me daft!

At the risk of sounding a bit of a barbarian, the holes the top nuts stick out of in the turrets have been ...ahem... clearanced slightly with a big file! Sounds a bit pikey, but better than being driven insane by the squeak. Not much use if yours are squaeking from another cause, though!

[obie81]

Its not a fuse mate, if it was then your lights wouldn\'t come on at all no matter what state the fog switch was in. Sounds like you got a short in the circuit. The only thing powering the lights is the fogs which means who ever wired in your fog has gashed it in there and prob cut into cables he shouldn\'t have. You got no leckie minded people near you?

[jonny116]

Right, sound like i need a garage to take a look at both!

[FEED Addict]

Download a copy of the wiring diagram and start tracing wires, have you checked all connections to rear light clusters and the earthing connector near spare tyre well?

[jonny116]

yeah i can do that tonight when i get a chance, is the earth connector that large bit of piping on the left of the spare wheel?  
 
Saying that it does have an aftermarket fog light switch on it for some reason?? I wonder if something has shorted with that, possibly under the centre console?

[RemarkLima]

Is your car a jap import? And when you say fogs, you mean rear fog light?

If so, the fog light has been wired in seperately... If like mine they\'ve wired the switch into the permanant live, so it\'ll switch on and off even with the ignition off... Genius!

But they could have easily spliced into the rear light circuit (so that it can only come on with the lights on), but they\'ve got it all ar$e about face therefore the circuit is only complete with that switch "on", who know\'s but that seems the most logical option.

[jonny116]

Yeah yeah its a jap import and has the seperate switch, but dosent come on unless the lights are switched on.
 
So does that mean it should be wired into the permanent live (wherever that is?), and not to the rear light circuit.  
 
Say it got changed from the rear light circuit to the permanent live, would i then have a rear fog i can swithc on and off, but no rear lights... or would this rememdy the problem?

[RemarkLima]

It\'s right that it should be on a lighting circuit, so it\'ll only be on with the lights (mine was done by cowboys by the looks of things, hence the easiest option, just to grab a permanant live!).

But it\'s probably something around there, so maybe the fog is interupping the rear light cicuit somehow... If you\'re not too confident I\'d think that something like that would be pretty easy for an auto-electrician to sort (I\'m not BTW, just seems to be the case).

[FEED Addict]

The fog light supply should come from the lighting circuit so the fog light is only on when the lights are on. If you have it wired up from a permanent live you could switch it on when you liked (very handy for spooking tailgaters as they think you are braking).

[jonny116]

I see.  Just worried that if i take it off the light circuit then none of the lights will work at all on the rear!  
 
haha, yeah i like the idea with the tailgate prevention button, used it many times on other cars!!

[jonny116]

... squeek turned out to be the bloody bonnet catch, WD40 sorted that!!!

Swapped wires on the lights as advised and sorted!!