It'sNotWorthComplaining!
14th December 2011, 04:58 PM
:eek2: yesterday I drove my D2 petrol ES and parked for 5 mins and then turned the key and I got a tic tic tic, like the battery was flat. I tried a couple of mins later and she started like normal.
Today I did a Auto trans filter and oil change. Got into move the disco and got the tic tic tic again.
This time how ever electrical wire burning smoke was coming up from Electric window panel on the centre console. I quickly disconnected the battery and pulled the hand brake gaiter off as it was smoldering, then I could see a glow of a flame from underneath the Auto shifter. I managed to blow it out like a candle.
I noticed there was white residue like white soot on the hand brake cable and the cable will not retract when the hand brake is released.
The window switches appear to be unburnt, I haven't got around to pulling the centre console out to find any wire damage.
Maybe a wire rubbed through somewhere, but I thought a fuse would have blown first.
I found a few shoddy bits of workmanship under the disco,:mad: the previous owner had a new trans flex plate fitted, the bozo mechanics, had either lost the bell housing bolts or fitted them incorrectly. 2 extra long bolts where used to mate the trans to engine, one had a big nut as a spacer to take up some of the extra length of one bolt, the other was just 30 mm too long, they had run out of thread on that bolt.
Trouble with buying second had , you don't know what the previous Expert mechanic stuffed up before you until you start pulling things apart:(
Seems when things go wrong it's always before xmas ( Christmas)
I checked Rave and the SRS loom runs along under the console.
So I won't know what burnt until I pull it apart.
Today I did a Auto trans filter and oil change. Got into move the disco and got the tic tic tic again.
This time how ever electrical wire burning smoke was coming up from Electric window panel on the centre console. I quickly disconnected the battery and pulled the hand brake gaiter off as it was smoldering, then I could see a glow of a flame from underneath the Auto shifter. I managed to blow it out like a candle.
I noticed there was white residue like white soot on the hand brake cable and the cable will not retract when the hand brake is released.
The window switches appear to be unburnt, I haven't got around to pulling the centre console out to find any wire damage.
Maybe a wire rubbed through somewhere, but I thought a fuse would have blown first.
I found a few shoddy bits of workmanship under the disco,:mad: the previous owner had a new trans flex plate fitted, the bozo mechanics, had either lost the bell housing bolts or fitted them incorrectly. 2 extra long bolts where used to mate the trans to engine, one had a big nut as a spacer to take up some of the extra length of one bolt, the other was just 30 mm too long, they had run out of thread on that bolt.
Trouble with buying second had , you don't know what the previous Expert mechanic stuffed up before you until you start pulling things apart:(
Seems when things go wrong it's always before xmas ( Christmas)
I checked Rave and the SRS loom runs along under the console.
So I won't know what burnt until I pull it apart.