Hi all,
96 Escort 1.3. Started it the other day and the rear window heater switch light came on. Since then it has never gone off again, even without the keys in (which apparently should be 'impossible' according to the ford garage up the road). Pulled the heater fuse, bashed the switch every which way, nothing, still on. The wirder thing is that the switch seems to still operate the heater, it's just the damn light won't go off! I know the inconvenience is minor as it will last at least 24 hrs before draining the battery enough so that I can't start it..but even after 8 hours it takes a few turns to get going instead of firing straight away as it usually does. What the hell could this be?? I was thinking water in the fuse box and the garage actually blew an air hose through it to see if there was any but nothing came out, though there had been a little bit of water on the edge of the box cover. They are now saying they'll need to take the fusebox out completly and have a look at it to see what's wrong and if it is the fusebox it's a couple of hundred quid for the part.So I now look to the combined millennia of experience in this group to suggest what else there might be going on that neither I nor ford have thought of.
Chandy