Fuses

[valgamesh]

Let me just begin by saying I hate fuses and they hate me.

Ok so since I've had the car I've had a few problems with it,

Driver and passenger seats not sitting in the runners.
Lose horn shorting the headlights.
Front engine mount with no bolt.
Positive and negative leads to battery not giving power to starter.

But in the last week its been fuses:

Last Tuesday I was at Stoie's house on ebay trying to source some new parts for his Mk1 and for my Mk2 to pass engineer cert. His dads comes home and kicks up a stink so we leave and cruise a bit and the car works fine,

Get back to his house a couple hours later, head in for about an hour then go to head off...

Go to turn the car on but doesn't kick over and start (Damn Stoie's cursed driveway! [nearly every time something goes wrong its on his driveway])

Pump the throttle a bit cos maybe its cold...
Roll it down off the slope and try...
Pop Bonnet to see if the starter is actually turning over... yes...
Try roll starting...
Curse stoie's driveway again...
Tell his dad to go away ...
Try again...

"Has to be something with the fuel pump cos everything else is working" states Stoie.

So we pull off the shelf, Stoie pulls a couple random big fuses, before heading in and getting the magic book:



He looks up fuses and tells me to pull fuse 5 - Fuel pump - while he looks up a few other possible problems. Pull out the fuse (which I might add looks original 1985) and sure enough in the right light you can see the little tiny crack running across it, so we grab a spare one from his mums barina and stick it in... key goes in, fingers crossed... car turns on... thank god! I should mention its like 10pm at this time.

Story doesn't end there...

When I was having battery problems I thought it related to the stereo so I pulled that but still I had problems. So after I fixed the battery leads I tried plugging it back up but couldn't figure out which lead plugged in where so I left it (this was a week before nationals)

Anyway, today I decided to have a look at some of those 1985 looking fuses and sure enough 2 of them had blown, no idea what they were for seeing as the car still worked
Seeing as I was in the car I decided to take another look at the stereo (which is in the glove box!), pull the passenger shelf off and plug in the cables in the different combos to see if it works but no luck... next is looking at the back on the stereo... so there I am lying on my back half out of the car with the sun in my eyes looking up at the bottom of the dash/glove box through the tiny hole because for the life of me I can't remove the glove box (I've tried 3 times)

Just my luck there's a wonderful little fuse in there
(1 hour later)
Fuse comes out and its fried and I don't mean slightly blackened metal... the entire thin bit of metal had snapped and attached to the plastic melting it and turning the whole fuse black and charred.

So liberate the sisters keys to go buy some more fuses (on a side note: Never buy a KIA... you have to have the clutch in to turn the car on, even when in neutral... most annoying!)

Down to supercheap auto: "Sorry, no one has 10amp fuses in their cars these days so we don't stock them here. Only what you see, 5, 7.5, 15, 20, 30, 40"
Complete Moron! They do have them, someone had just stacked a whole bunch of 7.5's on the 10 row.

Get back and re-wire everything again and the stereo turns on (Stoie, it was the logical config.)

So the point I'm trying to make is fuses hate me and if it wasn't for that book I don't think we would of figured it out that night.

[STOIE]

Haha, my driveway does seem to be cursed... at least when my dads around

But good to hear so the stereo is working now!
Told u it could be that fuse, but didn't want to go near it such a prick to get those things out and where yours is, well thats another issue :S

Anyway, it is very nice to hear that all the fuses are golden now, fingers crossed we have checked pretty much all the boxes on the car now...

Just need to see what happens with the wipers and re-welding the passenger seat rail... ohh and the resonator

Cheers,


PS. I seriously cannot believe the dip ****s that work at SC's, so damn annoying it's pretty much the only auto shop in our area...

[valgamesh]

Haha, my driveway does seem to be cursed... at least when my dads around

But good to hear so the stereo is working now!
...Told u it could be that fuse

...fingers crossed we have checked pretty much all the boxes on the car now...

Just need to see what happens with the wipers and re-welding the passenger seat rail... ohh and the resonator

Cheers,


PS. I seriously cannot believe the dip ****s that work at SC's, so damn annoying it's pretty much the only auto shop in our area...

Drives you up the wall he does... "seriously dad! stop asking dumb questions" LOL priceless comment.

Don't remember you saying the stereoe fuse all G but!

As for the fingers crossed, me to, I'm getting sick of wondering why it won't turn on... then cursing your driveway (wait thats fun )

And that engineers cert., if Goran is right and RTA knocks it back, send the white coats my way

Plus SC is full of morons and dip****s, the guy I told you about was the bloody store manager!