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peter51
31st December 2018, 09:02 PM
Hi all P38 owners,
After 5 years fauthful service I have an electrical problem - no ignition.
My copy of Rave has a 2000 version of the electrical troubleshooting manual.
Im targeting RL23 or relay 23 in section A1 page14. This is the petrol ignition coils relay which is granted a ground by the BeCM on receiving correct immobilisation reconciliation with the ECM.
The problem is that when I look inside my relay/fuse lid there is no Relay 23 illustrated.
There is a relay 2 illustrated inside the lid but no relay 23.
This must be a typo on the lid illustration or the manual - can someone shed some light on this please.

prelude
8th January 2019, 12:02 AM
I'm sorry, I do not have that version of the RAVE manual. Indeed I can't find a RL23 on either my gems or bosch P38 fusebox (they appear to be exactly the same).

Cheers,
-P

p38arover
11th January 2019, 12:40 PM
The fuse boxes did change at one point.

Elsewhere in the ETM, the ignition coil relay is referred to as RL2

peter51
11th January 2019, 01:02 PM
Thanks. After digging deeper into the manual I discovered the following.
Section A1 amendment status was 11/99 and shows RL23 as the power feed to the coils. Checking further into the power distribution section I found RL2 as the feed with an amendment date in the footer as 11/2000.
So they updated one section and not the other when they changed fm RL23 to the newer config if RL2.