Just a heads up to those of you with heated washer jets...
I decided on sunday morning to take the car for abit of a shakedown through pangbourne/petworth as I haven't driven it for awhile and I was having withdrawel symptons.
Anyway, I got onto a stretch of dual carriageway between two fantastic roads and opened the car up abit at which point it started raining a litte. I backed off and flicked the windscreen wipers on only for nothing to happen...
I radioed ahead to my friends to let them know the wipers weren't working and they pulled over and waited for me. I indicated to pull over only to find that I also had no indicators/signals. Great..
I popped the bonnet over and checked fuse 15 only to see it had completely blown. Luckily my friend was there in his TVR and had some spare fuses (I guess it's standard to carry a whole workshop around with you when you drive a TVR?
) so I popped another 30amp fuse in and hey presto, everything was working.
Well...until I flicked the wipers on only to be met with smoke whisping out of the dash vent and from under the bonnet. I turned the car off straight away and opened the bonnet up only to see alot of smoke coming from the fusebox area. I waited for it all to clear up abit before noticing that it wasn't actually coming from the fusebox but instead the wire leading into the bonnet which would supply power to both the under bonnet light and the washer jets.
Rather than wait for a tow at 7am in the middle of nowhere I decided pull the new fuse and to head home with a friend of mine playing wingman by driving behind me and indicating for me which was nice. The only downside was that I had no windscreen wipers and couldn't see a thing if I drove below 70mph so I had to keep the speed up.
It did however dawn on me this morning as I was driving the car over to Iver to get inspected that fuse 15 also supplies power to the radiator fan which explained why the car was getting quite hot. I dropped the windows and turned the heat upto full whack in order to draw some of the heat out of the car so I was sweating my nuts off.
It's currently being checked over and I should know by the end of today as to whether or not the loom has been damaged or if it is just localised damage.
Fecking cars..
I decided on sunday morning to take the car for abit of a shakedown through pangbourne/petworth as I haven't driven it for awhile and I was having withdrawel symptons.
Anyway, I got onto a stretch of dual carriageway between two fantastic roads and opened the car up abit at which point it started raining a litte. I backed off and flicked the windscreen wipers on only for nothing to happen...
I radioed ahead to my friends to let them know the wipers weren't working and they pulled over and waited for me. I indicated to pull over only to find that I also had no indicators/signals. Great..
I popped the bonnet over and checked fuse 15 only to see it had completely blown. Luckily my friend was there in his TVR and had some spare fuses (I guess it's standard to carry a whole workshop around with you when you drive a TVR?
) so I popped another 30amp fuse in and hey presto, everything was working.Well...until I flicked the wipers on only to be met with smoke whisping out of the dash vent and from under the bonnet. I turned the car off straight away and opened the bonnet up only to see alot of smoke coming from the fusebox area. I waited for it all to clear up abit before noticing that it wasn't actually coming from the fusebox but instead the wire leading into the bonnet which would supply power to both the under bonnet light and the washer jets.
Rather than wait for a tow at 7am in the middle of nowhere I decided pull the new fuse and to head home with a friend of mine playing wingman by driving behind me and indicating for me which was nice. The only downside was that I had no windscreen wipers and couldn't see a thing if I drove below 70mph so I had to keep the speed up.
It did however dawn on me this morning as I was driving the car over to Iver to get inspected that fuse 15 also supplies power to the radiator fan which explained why the car was getting quite hot. I dropped the windows and turned the heat upto full whack in order to draw some of the heat out of the car so I was sweating my nuts off.
It's currently being checked over and I should know by the end of today as to whether or not the loom has been damaged or if it is just localised damage.
Fecking cars..
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