A warning on early 110 fuse panel

[JDNSW]

A month or two ago, I found myself with no high beam (I have a headlight relay actuated off the LH headlight circuit, with a fuse for each side on the headlight side of that). Since flashing high beam worked, it was clearly neither the relay nor the fuses past it.

Blown fuse on the main panel in front of the gear lever. "I wonder why that happened?"

Replaced it, and a few weeks later, same again. This time I carefully examined all the accessible wiring, without finding anything. Eventually found what I think was the issue. The clip that holds the 'headlight' end of the fuse had been pushed through the plastic so the the fuse was not being gripped properly.

I am guessing that the back of the clip touched the firewall when I hit a bad bump, shorting and blowing a fuse.

I had not realised these could be pushed back. A pair of fine longnose pliers pulled it out. It will stay there with the fuse in, but it is easy to push back in when fitting it. Let's hope that is the issue.

[86mud]

interesting JD....I keep blowing a LH low beam headlight on my 1998 300Tdi 130. Damn annoying. I'll take a closer look at all connections when I get time