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Right got the car back together after some 6 weeks waiting for a new speedo, thought the cat and the kids in my street were getting far to many so it was time to start the car and scare a few of them off ( V loud ).

All was fine until the dash disply went all weird, i now have no tacho and the oil pressure and torque gauge are pointing at top of the dash and temp gauge stopped and the power windows went out with the temp gauge and no longer are working. I know it sounds like a fuse ( i hope ) and i will check them today but any ideas will be gratefully entertained

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After looking into the problem a bit more i have two fuses that are continuing to blow after i replaced them. i have attached a pic as the cover i have for the fuse compartment is in Japanese.

I know that they are the right size fuses any idea and what circuit they are for so i can chase the problem down please would give me a start.

Regards

Hi cowie,

I found it by testing with my trusty old fluke meter and a good set of diagrams on these type of car i found on the internet.

Tested the conductors and found several circuits had shorted knew then it was a loom problem. found a broken cable tie under the drivers side inner guard allowing the loom to rub through.

I was lucky i guess a simple fix really but it had me stumped for a while. Now has all ties replaced with some nice nylon saddles.

Edited by tacker

Thanks for your reply dude. Time to head back to google to suss out how to test for a short.

The reasons I asked is because my clock has never worked (tried 2 replacements). The fuse seems to be ok so I'm still trying to work out where things are stuffing up - I've not yet tested for power and I vaguely remember something about aftermarket head units causing problems with the Acc power to the clock...

Did you seriously bin the entire enterior?? Can't be stuffed to sell some bits?

Mate i will take a quick look at the drawnings and see if i can find a weak spot in the circuit shouldnt be too hard, will get back to you on that.

And sorry mate the skip was emptied on saturday so its gone. I did try to get rid of it i put it on several web site for free but seeing as i live in Dubai it was a little costly to send anywhere else.

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