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davesopener
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blown fuses!

Postby davesopener » 04 Nov 2007 21:40

hi,
ive just got my tr7 yesterday!
and after managing a traumatic journey home lasting some 7 hours

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Postby davesopener » 04 Nov 2007 21:44

this was due to some awful crash on the m62
ill have to say i really love it
its noisy and certainly smelly but great fun to live with
however have had to change the fuse for wipers n indicators twice
in last ast 24 hours
is this normal?
thanks

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Postby FI Spyder » 05 Nov 2007 05:24

Nope. Must have a intermittant short. I don't know if too high a resistance in wiper mechanism would cause the motor to draw enough current to blow a fuse. I took my mechanism apart as a matter of course to clean it and contacts and regreased with synthetic grease. Good forever now.

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Postby Beans » 05 Nov 2007 17:57

Had exactly the same happen to me during this year's LCC.
Turned out to be a knackerd choke light switch which short circuited ...

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Postby tr7inc » 06 Nov 2007 05:42

Hi Dave just out of curiousty, where did you get youre car from? only i paaed a TR7 where i live in Sleaford Lincs and its the first Tr in 7 years that i hasve seen this way.

Steve

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