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DavidBE
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Interior lights - is there a fuse just for them?
« on: Dec 6th, 2025, 9:41pm » |
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All my interior lights (the ones in the ceiling - for front seats, rear seats and cargo area) have stopped working, whether turned to 'on' or 30s timed on door opening, including the reading lights (it's a Ghia-X 24V estate, but I swapped the front and rear seat interior lights with the added reading lights from my old 16V Ultima saloon when that gave up the ghost and I got the Cossie estate). I'm pretty sure I know what the inciting incident was, and it certainly could have caused a fuse to blow, but main fuse box fuse 24 'interior lights, audio systems' appears to be intact (I've misplaced my multimeter, but the fuse looks OK, I put in a replacement anyway, and the 7000RDS is working and never stopped working). Is there some other fuse somewhere just covering those lights that could have blown?
I think the cause was probably my struggling to unplug the connections to the cargo area light, where the connectors just didn't want to come off, and the light kept flashing on and off, the switch not wanting to stay in the off position, as I struggled, only finally succeeding when the plastic the connectors were fixed to on the back of the light broke off! I didn't notice all the interior lights had stopped working at the time, but did the next day - yesterday - when it got dark while I was out doing the weekly supermarket shop.
(My initial problem was that awhile ago the light over the rear seats suddenly just dropped and hung from its wires. It was still in its bezel, but the bezel's two 'legs' with the holes in that screws fasten to the roof had snapped off. As I couldn't just source a new bezel, I ended up buying a whole light (the simple one, not the Ultima one with the reading lights - bezel's the same) from that place in Lithuania that always has a load of Scorpio bits on eBay, just for the bezel that the listing photos showed was included and was intact. A mixture of my disability and looking after a 98 year-old mother who is bed ridden and has dementia meant it took awhile to get round to fitting the 'new' bezel and then fixing the rear seat interior light back up a week ago. But as I finished, I saw the headlining round the cargo area light had come loose, and just touching it lightly, the 'feet' of that cargo area light bezel snapped and THAT light dropped down. I'm waiting for another replacement light that includes an intact bezel, this time from Germany, that appears to have stalled in a DHL export warehouse in Germany, but yesterday I was trying to disconnect the old light so I was ready as and when the replacement light with intact bezel arrives. So eventually I did disconnect it, but now none of the interior or reading lights is working. I'm not aware of anything else not working, though.)
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DavidBE
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Re: Interior lights - is there a fuse just for the
« Reply #1 on: Dec 7th, 2025, 3:53pm » |
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Never mind - found the problem. It was fuse 36 'power saver' in the auxiliary fuse box that had blown. I now have interior lights again. Of course I've still got the cargo bay area one dangling down from the ceiling. I wish DHL Germany would pull their fingers out - the light-with-intact-bezel I bought on eBay sat for a whole week in the 'local parcel centre of origin', then moved to the 'export parcel centre' 60 miles away in the wee small hours of Thursday morning, and no apparent movement since. 
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