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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:26 am 
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having some troubles with electrics, thinking it maybe fuses, but not too sure, i'll start from the begining.

I was in the process of installing an amp, got every thing hooked up and went to test to see if i was getting power to the amp, by just having the key turned to acc, and it did.

when i then turned the car on it had to try really hard to crank which it eventually did. i did this several times not knowing what had gone wrong, and it was takin more effort each time.

so i dissconected the amp and it started fine first time. the next time i started it i had check ABS light come on, i knew it wasn't good, but it wasn't that bad, as i still had brakes. i ended up loosing all power from battery, and having to use a battery booster to start it again, got where i needed to go, then had to get the old RAC to come out and tell me i had loose battery terminal cables.

thinking the situation couldnt get worse, i drove it home succesfully and the next day going to work she was heating up badly, i found out me thermos ain't working. The enging was still cooling itself down, from coolant, but that didn't work for long.

Its an EBII S-XR6 with EF/EL thermo fans. some of the wiring looks a little bad/frayed, but has been that way for a while, and fans still worked.

So from this long as Post would anyone beable to suggest anything? have i just blown a whole series of fuses/relayes or is it a case of the cheapest thing being most durable???

(I did search topics before puttin this post, hence teh longness)

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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:00 pm 
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Have you fully disconnected the amp and wiring? Including remote wires? Check all fuses, and relays as well/ The thermofans I think are up near the water reservoir. Doesnt sound good but

 

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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:48 pm 
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:41 pm 
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the amps is was dissconect completly and the abs still had the warning, the amp is connect and working sweet. its at the mech now, so i'll let ewes know what happened. mech said it was probly fuse or relay, so far all i know is the thermos and abs not working, every thing else apears to work fine.

 

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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:41 pm 
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might wanna rewire the fans if the wiring looks suss... theres a break somewhere. driving with loose battery terminals can cause all sorts of dramas
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:44 pm 
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yeh i have figured that out the hard way, i dont think rewireing them would make a difference, as they have been working fine for a while, when i first got the car i had a similar prob with them not working, (boilded the s**t out of it and blew the head gask) so the dealer took it to his sparky and he didn't rewire them, and i dont know what he had to do. so i think/pray it is just a fuse/relay.

 

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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:41 am 
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good news, it was jsut a relay which is a nice cheap piece to fix.

pitty i had to pay someone labour to do it.

 

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