130 ELECTRICS?????

[ROBERT110763]

Hi all,
Just having the usal crappy fight with defender electrics,(Jesus is this a fire waiting to happen or what) has anybody out there had fuses blow on the left hand indicator intermitantly, which in turn drops out the temp & fuel gauges.

Cheers Bob

[mic.p]

Absolutly, mines a 2000 model and i had to get mine rewired last year and now it's at the auto elec's again still blowing fuses but this time on the guages only.
From what i'm told it's where the wiring runs into the chassis, it wares out and shorts, apparently it's a common problem. How many k's has yours done?

[ROBERT110763]

Hi
Yeh been there done that, could not see any damage , I've got 245 000km on it.
Thanks Bob

[hiline]

mine use to do the same

turned out to be a faulty hazard switch

so now its been bypassed and never had a problem since :D
only problem is i have no hazard lights if i breakdown

[mic.p]

yup! mine's a 2000 model and has done 300k now, and most of my electrical problems all started at about 250k. If i buy another 130 sort of 01 to 03 model then i might just get it re wired straight away. what year is yours?

[hiline]

if your asking about mine............

its also a 2000 TD5

[rick130]

Same thing happens on my 11/98 build.

The loom chafes where it goes through the chassis rails.

I also had the LHS parkers/tail light shorting out, turned out to be one of the screws in the number plate light being a touch too long and shorting on one of the terminals. :angel:

[easo]

Its the right hand side for me. But only when I tow it blows. Dosent matter what or whos trailer I pull, as soon as I turn on the parkers they go. Every thing else brakes, indacator fine.

Mines 2003

[Gillie]

mine use to do the same

turned out to be a faulty hazard switch

so now its been bypassed and never had a problem since :D
only problem is i have no hazard lights if i breakdown


BAH, You'll never need them. or will you........?

[George130]

You guys are starting to get me worried.

[ROBERT110763]

Hi all
Mines a 2/96 single cab 130 tray back, 300tdi.Tried the hazard switch & number plate light to no avail, yes George 130, I would be worried to, sounds like its a optional extra that we all got regardless if we ordered it or not???

Cheers Bob

[101 Ron]

On my Dec 1994 TDI 300 I have had wires break inside the the chassis rail where you can not fix them.
Luckly Ialso found spare wires running through the same harness and just swapped over the the elelctrical function to the spare wire.

[hiline]

BAH, You'll never need them. or will you........?
haven't needed them in over 240,000k's yet :D

touch wood :angel:

[Col.Coleman]

Yep, got the right hand side blues, takes out the instrument lights too.:mad:

Looking, Looking:(

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