nathanVY
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- 2003 VY LS1 Turbo Calais, 2005 4Gen Liberty Wagon
Hey everyone, really crap end to the day today.
I had the dash apart and just finished putting it back together, nice slowly everything right and I was just up to putting the drivers side panel back on.
I have LEDs wired up to my interior light curcuits, to the factory wiring (calais have globe sockets), for some reason the ones on the drivers side decided to arc, mustn't have been covered properly. Ok cool, that should have just blown the fuse no worries, except it didn't, fuse 4 - the interior illumination fuse was completely burnt to a crisp and a lot of smoke was pouring out from behind the dash.
My guess would be this happened because for some reason there was a 15amp fuse where there should have been a 10amp fuse
When the smoke started pouring out I frantically began pulling fuses out but fuse 4 had burnt out before I got to it and the damage was already done. Some key things that happened all at once here
- Windscreen wipers turned on and started squirting water (only for a second then the fuse went)
The indicator and Windscreen Wiper fuse as well as the Interior Illum. fuse both blow immediately when replacing with a new fuse - I double checked every fuse they all have the correct amperage fuse in there.
The car won't start, cranks over I have cluster illumination everything except the obvious interior light and windscreen wipers/indicators.
I have a wiring diagram here but it's going to take me weeks to decode it all Does anyone know what is along that circuit that is burnt out that could be stopping the car from starting?
Also the airbag light came on after that happened so perhaps something in the steering column has shorted.
All thoughts and comments much appreciated, really need to sort this out.
Cheers
I had the dash apart and just finished putting it back together, nice slowly everything right and I was just up to putting the drivers side panel back on.
I have LEDs wired up to my interior light curcuits, to the factory wiring (calais have globe sockets), for some reason the ones on the drivers side decided to arc, mustn't have been covered properly. Ok cool, that should have just blown the fuse no worries, except it didn't, fuse 4 - the interior illumination fuse was completely burnt to a crisp and a lot of smoke was pouring out from behind the dash.
My guess would be this happened because for some reason there was a 15amp fuse where there should have been a 10amp fuse
When the smoke started pouring out I frantically began pulling fuses out but fuse 4 had burnt out before I got to it and the damage was already done. Some key things that happened all at once here
- Windscreen wipers turned on and started squirting water (only for a second then the fuse went)
The indicator and Windscreen Wiper fuse as well as the Interior Illum. fuse both blow immediately when replacing with a new fuse - I double checked every fuse they all have the correct amperage fuse in there.
The car won't start, cranks over I have cluster illumination everything except the obvious interior light and windscreen wipers/indicators.
I have a wiring diagram here but it's going to take me weeks to decode it all Does anyone know what is along that circuit that is burnt out that could be stopping the car from starting?
Also the airbag light came on after that happened so perhaps something in the steering column has shorted.
All thoughts and comments much appreciated, really need to sort this out.
Cheers