electrics !!

[ben rawlings]

right...after removing all the front end pannels,lights to clean engine bay, waxoil inside wings and remove stone chips from valance i have found a problem :hide:

basically when i put the headlights on the wippers come on! :worried:
and when i put the high beem on the passengers side indicator illuminates on the dash but not on the out side?

any ideas people :confused:

[Slaphead]

right...after removing all the front end pannels,lights to clean engine bay, waxoil inside wings and remove stone chips from valance i have found a problem :hide:

basically when i put the headlights on the wippers come on! :worried:
and when i put the high beem on the passengers side indicator illuminates on the dash but not on the out side?

any ideas people :confused:

I thought my Ledbury was strange,when i turn the lights on the radio comes on aswell! It sounds like you've reconnected some wires the wrong way round,or am i stating the obvious?

[MaestroSpecial]

I've just spent the past 6 months rebuilding the front end on the MG Maestro - replacing it for a Montego one basically. Even with the differing items I've not experienced anything like this, so I'm not quite sure how you've managed this on a base spec 1.3! :hide:

However, what electrical items did you disconnect? As the Haynes manual says, 'fitting is the opposite of removal'. Did you fully remove any wiring items? :banghead:

[ben rawlings]

head lights, rear lights, indicators. the worrieing thing is that ive put some front fog lights in so i dont know whats gunna happen when i wire them up! :worried:

[metro]

Checks all your earths. You most likely have a bad connection somewhere, and the elastrickery is finding the easiest route back to the battery via everything else.

[G Force]

Hi, as above, but as you have taken probably take off the bumper mounts then a lot of the earths are fastened here, check these first as you will have disturbed them. ;)

Cheers gary :)

[Dave]

As stated above, almost certainly earth points. Have you waxoyled an earth bolt before reassembly?

Dave

[ben rawlings]

ha,ha cheers lads

i have been spending today building,felting, and wiring up a shed.

but from memory..i did take an earthing point away when i took the bumper mounts off :banghead:

cheers again, i feel stupid now lol :D

[Slaphead]

I spent today waxoyling my Ledbury. This involved removing front and rear bumpers and i found no earths attached,to any bumper mounts. After putting the bumpers back on,everything worked as it should....electrically speaking!

[ben rawlings]

ahh, i think i know what ive done...i think the earth wire im on about goes under the bootom bolt on the battery platform.... :rolleyes: i think im going to take up knitting rather than messing about with cars lol ;)

[Slaphead]

A couple of jumpers would be nice,thanks! ;) :hat:

[E_T_V]

I had exactly the same problems with teh electrics on my turbo when I removed the front bumper and forgot to screw the earths back on!. (The main earths are mounted to teh bumper retaning bolts on the inner wing).

Don't worry I felt everso silly too when I finally realised what I'd done.
I had exactly the same symptoms, one indicator light glowing faintly all the time and the wipers came on when I turned the igniton on or something similar. Earthing faults do have some REALLY strange effects on a car!

[ben rawlings]

A couple of jumpers would be nice,thanks! ;) :hat:

:laugh: anyone else for any knitted items...im currently working on knitted wraps for maestros and montegos ;)

[Slaphead]

[QUOTE=E_T_V]I had exactly the same problems with teh electrics on my turbo when I removed the front bumper and forgot to screw the earths back on!. (The main earths are mounted to teh bumper retaning bolts on the inner wing).

Is it a case of,plastic bumper cars having earths to attached the mounting brackets and metal bumper cars not? :idea:

[ben rawlings]

yes craig thats probably the case....check on your ledbury if the earthing point we're on about attaches under the bottom bolt on the battery platform

[Rich]

ha,ha cheers lads

i have been spending today building,felting, and wiring up a shed.


Part P :horror:

[ben rawlings]

a? :confused:

[Beaker]

b?

[E_T_V]

To stop the next 20 odd posts of random letters I'll try to explain what part P is. It is the new electrical regs (that virtually no-one is taking any notice of) that mean that Joe bloggs the DIY-er is in theory seriously restricted as to what he can and can't do on his own. If he does certain things he may then have to have them inspected by a certified sparky or the council. It is to stop cowboy builders/sparkys etc from doing a poor job meaning that every job that comes under part P (which wiring up a shed probably would) requires a certificate to say it has been done safely and in accordance with the rules.

However I don't know anyone who is taking any notice of these new rules (apart from our resident electrician tony of course). Do a google on Part P electrical rules and you'll see what I mean.

[ben rawlings]

oh...ok people...please dont tell anyone :hide: :o

[B18 GPC]

I've just spent the past 6 months rebuilding the front end on the MG Maestro - replacing it for a Montego one basically. Even with the differing items I've not experienced anything like this, so I'm not quite sure how you've managed this on a base spec 1.3! :hide:

However, what electrical items did you disconnect? As the Haynes manual says, 'fitting is the opposite of removal'. Did you fully remove any wiring items? :banghead:


are the wiring to the wipers on the inner top of the glove box ?

either a new bad earth , or youve trapped a wire and shorted it out ? :nonono: