electrical problems again

That photo shows exactly what you describe Rod - thanks Spike!

The 40A fuse is even shown in the photo and it is the fan control fuse.

Check for chaffing and also the possibility of a dodgy control unit - as I say, they have been known to fail, but not regularly.

Cheers,

Mike

PS, It is thick red/blue wiring you're looking for and it should be going into the red connector, shown at the bottom of Spikes photo (hidden by the other connectors pretty much fully), pin 17
 
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electrical problems

would this cause the EPS and ABS warning lights to come on and cause smoking or is this another fault which I have not found? how does the lower panel come off, I uncliped at the top but what about the bottom?
 
To free the panel completely, you need to remove the trim that runs along the door sill (fingers under the door rubber and jerk it up sharply and out).

This will reveal a T25 screw and there is a second on the central tunnel side, near the clutch pedal.

Remove these 2 and the panel will fall down and give better access.

Will it cause lights to come on? Yes, depending on what other wires have been charred in the burning process - you may recall I had a similar problem last year, where the power feed to the power steering was chaffing on a blob of weld. This caused a small fire in the engine bay resulting in the loss of the brake pad wear indicator, ambient temp sender, front fogs, hazard warning light and several other functions.

A simple popping fuse wouldn't cause smoke and such in the cabin, but a rubbing wire that was shorting enough to cause heat build up, but not enough to cause fuse failure (until the problem got worse) would also melt the wires around it and so give rise to the smell and smoke you saw.

Cheers,

Mike
 
electrical problems solved

my electrical faults have been solved (hopefully)After a visit to an Auto Electrical Engineer. I have had fitted a new coolant Fan Control Module, the old one had burned out. As regards the black smoke there was a trapped wire near the steering column, this wire was not fused and is shown on the wiring diagram as a dotted line, it now has a in line fuse, also found was a bent bit of wire at the rear of the fuse box. Not sure if it had dropped down into fuse box. So now my wallet is lighter again the car is safetly back on the road.
 
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