Thread: The Prince of Darkness Strikes Again!

I have put this in Technical Chatter because it applies to a number of Landrover models.

Last night, heading home from town, it became apparent that high beam (and driving lights) were not working. The trip home was somewhat hair raising on low beam, with us in near peak roo time. (It is possible high beam was not working for some time, as with daylight saving, it has only been used rarely in recent months.

As I had long since fitted headlight relays, there were multiple possible failure points, and I suspected the multifunction switch, although since headlight flasher did not work, this was really unlikely. However, checking the fuse revealed it was unblown, but there was no voltage on the downstream contact - obviously, poor contact due to corrosion.

No it wasn't, as I found when I had armed myself with 800 wet and dry and a torch - the contacts at that end of the fuse had pushed back into the plastic mount.

Pulling them back with longnoses and reinstalling the fuse, got voltage at the terminal, but still no lights. But now the driving lights worked (separate relay, but using feed from the same fuse for its coil). So attention changed to the headlight relay, and eventually found burnt contacts on it, probably due to inadequate pressure on the contact from low voltage due to the original fuse problem.

John

Was it 1 of those white plastic inline fuse holders ?