Intermittent Electrical problem ...

[peter mcfeeley]

Hi. I have an intermittent electrical glitch on my 1988 Mini City 1000 Automatic. I'm losing indicators & brake lights every now and then; the giages read max as well. They always come back to normal after a while and I have not changed the fuses. Anyone any ideas?
Cheers
Peter

[The Marcos Graveyard]

Are you loosing all the indicators or just the backs ? Do all the gauges max out ?

[peter mcfeeley]

Yes - all indicators go at same time.
Not sure about the guages; I wasn't consciously checking (but will in future) because I was getting angry motorists pointing out that my brake lights as well as indicators were not functioning !
Peter

[woody]

cheak the condition of cables and fusebox arround terminal 1, White cables.

[peter mcfeeley]

Thanks Woody and Marcos - will check it out
Peter

[peter mcfeeley]

Traced it back to a dodgy fuse and some singed wiring !

[dublincooper]

Make sure you clean the fuse connections on all the spades on the fuse box. I have had this nightmare recently and thanks to woody got this solved.

as the fuse boxes rust at the back i found the best thing was to bypass them using in-line fuses. Indicator circuit has one in the fuse box (second one down)then another inline fuse behind the airbox.

The circuit below (third one down in fuse box) is for the break lights and rear windscreen heater. This was the fault on mine as it also stops the indicators working !!

thanks to woody my nightmares are over and i get some sleep at night !

[peter mcfeeley]

Yeah - there was a lot of rust and grime, which I cleaned off and replaced the fuses (but not with in-line ones). Was working fine this morning thankfully.
Regards
Peter

[woody]

Wouldn't recomend replacing the fusebox with inline fuses . As well as being a fusebox it acts as a junction between some heavy cables ,mainly brown or white so make sure your connections are strong enough for heavy current.